Top 500 Age Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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

102. “The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home.”

— Carl Sagan

103. “Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.”

— Indira Gandhi

104. “At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.”

— George Orwell

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105. “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

106. “Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.”

— Cecelia Ahern

107. “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

108. “Some age. Others mature.”

— Sean Connery

109. “We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.”

— Byron Katie

110. “No matter your age, stage of life, or circumstances, don’t forget to dare to dream with God. You don’t have to figure anything out. Just keep saying yes to Him, in big ways and small, and watch what He does.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

111. “It’s the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.”

— Dan Brown

112. “Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

113. “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

114. “The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— George Bernard Shaw

116. “To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person – few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned.”

— Clarence Darrow

117. “Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom.”

— George Carlin

118. “I shall grow old, but never lose life’s zest, because the road’s last turn will be the best.”

— Henry van Dyke

119. “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

120. “The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it’s always in your face.”

— Pablo Picasso

121. “Kindness is a universal language regardless of age, nationality or religion.”

— Alex Ferguson

122. “If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.”

— Tori Amos

123. “Now is the age of anxiety.”

— W.H. Auden

124. “The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.”

— Peter F. Drucker

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

— Elbert Hubbard

126. “Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.”

— John Dryden

127. “Life begins at eighty.”

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

128. “Why is old considered useless? Because in old age, the emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: Being? What do you do with it?”

— Eckhart Tolle

129. “Age is just a number baby, what are you now? 40?”

— Stephenie Meyer

130. “Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?”

— Marcus Aurelius

131. “The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, snivelling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goosesteppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the Middle Ages.”

— H. L. Mencken

132. “We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon. In an instant age, perhaps we must relearn the ancient truth that patience, too, has its victories.”

— Konrad Adenauer

133. “We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.”

— Yukio Mishima

134. “In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.”

— Marquis de Sade

135. “Age is just a number. Who cares how old the girl is that I date?”

— Niall Horan

136. “And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.”

— Ernest Hemingway

137. “But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.”

— Oscar Wilde

138. “We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

139. “Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing.”

— John Milton

140. “The Golden Age was never the present age.”

— Benjamin Franklin

141. “With age comes wisdom and confidence, and I don’t feel like I’m seeking approval as much as I used to from other people.”

— Terri Clark

142. “We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.”

— Aldous Huxley

143. “None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”

— Henry David Thoreau

144. “The question isn’t at what age I want to retire, it’s at what income.”

— George Foreman

145. “The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

146. “There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.”

— Milan Kundera

147. “You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.”

— Garrison Keillor

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148. “As the saying goes, the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions. The same opportunity lies before us with energy efficiency and clean energy.”

— Steven Chu

149. “As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

150. “A man growing old becomes a child again.”

— Sophocles