Top 500 Age Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Age doesn’t always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.”

— Garrison Keillor

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Philip James Bailey

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

— Robert Browning

155. “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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

157. “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

158. “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

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

— George Foreman

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

— Henry David Thoreau

161. “Reckless youth makes rueful age.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Garrison Keillor

163. “In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”

— George Orwell

164. “Life begins at eighty.”

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Joseph Joubert

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

169. “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

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

— William Jennings Bryan

171. “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

172. “I lost myself to music at a very early age, and I remained there.”

— Steven Morrissey

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

— Coco Chanel

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

— John Dryden

175. “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

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

— Stephenie Meyer

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

— Barack Obama

178. “I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs.”

— John Milton

179. “Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.”

— Voltaire

180. “Wherever you are, at whatever age, you’re only a thought away from changing your life.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

181. “I’ve arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.”

— Charlie Chaplin

182. “If youth knew; if age could.”

— Sigmund Freud

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

— George Bernard Shaw

184. “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

185. “The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.”

— Napoleon Hill

186. “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

187. “There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.”

— Sharron Angle

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

— Byron Katie

189. “You know you’ve reached middle age when all you exercise is caution.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— T. S. Eliot

191. “We’re so arrogant, aren’t we? So afraid of age, we do everything we can to prevent it. We don’t realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone. Someone who doesn’t drive you to commit murder or doesn’t humiliate you beyond repair.”

— Cecelia Ahern

192. “Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.”

— C. S. Lewis

193. “Life should begin with age and it’s privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and it’s capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.”

— Mark Twain

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

— Bill Gates

195. “Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

196. “There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

197. “It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.”

— Caleb Carr

198. “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

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

— H. P. Blavatsky

200. “On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.”

— Audrey Hepburn