Top 500 Age Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.”

— Ernest Hemingway

52. “Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions and its own peculiar preconceptions.”

— Carl von Clausewitz

53. “I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.”

— Mark Twain

54. “When you get to my age, you’ll measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. That’s the ultimate test of how you’ve lived your life.”

— Warren Buffett

55. “If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.”

— Christopher Hitchens

56. “Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?”

— Henry Ford

57. “You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

58. “The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.”

— Isaac D'Israeli

59. “Love has no age as it is always renewing itself.”

— Blaise Pascal

60. “You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.”

— Haruki Murakami

61. “We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.”

— C.G. Jung

62. “It comes down to this: either you control money, or it controls you. To control money, you must manage it.”

— T. Harv Eker

63. “What a moment to take the newspaper in one hand and the Bible in the other and watch the unfolding of the great drama of the ages. This is an exciting and thrilling time to be alive. I would not want to live in any other period.”

— Billy Graham

64. “In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.”

— Socrates

65. “I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.”

— Groucho Marx

66. “In the absence of touching and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow touched starved. Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.”

— Diane Ackerman

67. “I like Florida. Everything is in the 80s. The temperatures, the ages and the IQ’s.”

— George Carlin

68. “The single biggest difference between financial success and financial failure is how well you manage your money. It’s simple: to master money, you must manage money.”

— T. Harv Eker

69. “The older you get, the more important it is to not act your age.”

— Ashleigh Brilliant

70. “As you get older, you have your tribe of women that you grow and age gracefully with and you share wisdom with. That’s your clan. That’s your family. That’s your strength.”

— Sheryl Crow

71. “Every day in every way, I am increasing my mental and physical capacity. I am reversing my biological age.”

— Deepak Chopra

72. “Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.”

— Hermann Hesse

73. “Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

74. “There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.”

— Henry Ford

75. “Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it’s after the age of 70 you realize – you begin to actually be convinced – you’re growing older.”

— Leonard Cohen

76. “Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I’m not sure that old age isn’t the best part of life.”

— C. S. Lewis

77. “From the age of three, I played every day-morning, afternoon and night.”

— Lionel Messi

78. “No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”

— Ernest Hemingway

79. “Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.”

— Napoleon Hill

80. “Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.”

— Anne Lamott

81. “Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.”

— Pablo Picasso

82. “A strong body listens. It obeys. A weak body commands. If your body is weak it tells you what to do. If your body is strong it’ll actually listen to you when you tell it to do something. If you build it right you can overcome some of the obstacles of age and recovery.”

— Andre Agassi

83. “Old age is second childhood.”

— Aristophanes

84. “Taking care of your body, no matter what your age, is an investment.”

— Oprah Winfrey

85. “Age is not based on chronology, but psychology.”

— Tony Robbins

86. “Untroubled, scornful, outrageous – that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

87. “Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.”

— Dorothy Parker

88. “I had this desire to see the world. I couldn’t see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that’s why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.”

— George R.R. Martin

89. “Since age twelve, I’ve felt like I’m someone else,’cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt.”

— Eminem

90. “The age of nations has passed. Now, unless we wish to perish, we must shake off our old prejudices and build the Earth. The more scientifically I regard the world, the less can I see any possible biological future for it except in the active consciousness of its unity.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

91. “What’s my age again?”

— Blink-182

92. “Time is so fleeting that if we do not remember God in our youth, age may find us incapable of thinking of him.”

— Hans Christian Andersen

93. “It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.”

— Virginia Woolf

94. “One skill you want to master in this day and age we live in, if you want to have an extraordinary life, is the ability to learn rapidly.”

— Tony Robbins

95. “When a man has a birthday, he takes a day off. When a woman has a birthday, she takes at least three years off.”

— Joan Rivers

96. “Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it. You can only mar it. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. What you can do is keep it for your children, your children’s children and for all who come after you.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

97. “Some age. Others mature.”

— Sean Connery

98. “The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy.”

— Elbert Hubbard

99. “Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.”

— Hayao Miyazaki

100. “Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.”

— George Bernard Shaw