Top 500 Age Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.”

— C. S. Lewis

152. “When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung come to lavish on us their riches and their spells.”

— Marcel Proust

153. “Reckless youth makes rueful age.”

— Benjamin Franklin

154. “Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.”

— Epicurus

155. “Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The “newness” in the individual psyche is an endlessly varied recombination of age-old components.”

— C.G. Jung

156. “In framing a system, which we wish to last for ages, we should not lose sight of the changes which ages will produce.”

— James Madison

157. “The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

158. “We all have souls of different ages.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

159. “Age is nothing; waking up is everything.”

— Maya Angelou

160. “No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.”

— Ernest Hemingway

161. “Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.”

— Galileo Galilei

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162. “But old fools is the biggest fools there is.”

— Mark Twain

163. “I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.”

— Thomas Jefferson

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164. “In my medicine cabinet, the winter fly has died of old age.”

— Jack Kerouac

165. “One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.”

— Henry David Thoreau

166. “The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.”

— William Jennings Bryan

167. “I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.”

— Edmund Burke

168. “Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.”

— Benjamin Franklin

169. “Old age and the passage of time teach all things.”

— Sophocles

170. “Age doesn’t always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.”

— Garrison Keillor

171. “Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one’s talent, and one’s inner happiness.”

— George Sand

172. “It matters not how long we live but how.”

— Philip James Bailey

173. “My mother once said “If you don’t pay attention to age, then it won’t pay attention to you.” And she says it, and it sounds nice, but I don’t buy it.”

— Cher

174. “Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.”

— Bill Gates

175. “What have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment’s surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed.”

— T. S. Eliot

176. “National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

177. “Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

178. “Someday when you’re twenty, maybe, I’ll see you again. You’ll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I’ll see you and I’ll pray you want me still.”

— Ann Brashares

179. “The evening of a well spent youth brings it’s lamps with it.”

— Joseph Joubert

180. “All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.”

— George Orwell

181. “The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.”

— Brennan Manning

182. “As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.”

— Neil Gaiman

183. “As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.”

— Henry David Thoreau

184. “Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.”

— Will Rogers

185. “In my coming-of-age time, there was no internet, no social networking, nothing. It was just show after show, hoping one day somebody would notice you.”

— Madonna

186. “Tomorrow can be a wonderful age.”

— Walt Disney

187. “Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

188. “I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.”

— Phyllis Diller

189. “In this new, hyper competitive age, none of us, none of us can afford to be complacent.”

— Barack Obama

190. “I am grown peaceful as old age tonight.”

— Robert Browning

191. “He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.”

— Francis Bacon

192. “Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

193. “There’s a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

194. “From a very early age, I’ve had to interrupt my education to go to school.”

— George Bernard Shaw

195. “The problem of aging is the problem of living. There is no simple solution.”

— Coco Chanel

196. “William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.”

— Marc Norman

197. “Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.”

— Dorothy Parker

198. “I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an altered age, we worship in the dead forms of our forefathers.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

199. “Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.”

— John Milton

200. “These fragments I have shored against my ruins.”

— T. S. Eliot