Top 500 Age Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “I’ve arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.”

— Charlie Chaplin

202. “I am not young enough to know everything.”

— Oscar Wilde

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203. “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

204. “My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.”

— Golda Meir

205. “Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.”

— George Santayana

206. “Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.”

— Oscar Wilde

207. “If youth knew; if age could.”

— Sigmund Freud

208. “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

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

— Napoleon Hill

210. “Never ask age of a woman.”

— Douglas MacArthur

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Steven Morrissey

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

— Wayne W. Dyer

214. “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

215. “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

216. “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

217. “One of the best ways to realize that age is an illusion is to have your body get older and realize that you are who you always have been.”

— Alan Cohen

218. “I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I’m drinking more.”

— Mario Puzo

219. “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

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220. “Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.”

— Billy Graham

221. “Error flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.”

— Voltaire

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

— Sharron Angle

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

— Caleb Carr

224. “To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.”

— Albert Camus

225. “I wasn’t aware that the world thought I was so weird and bizarre. But when you grow up, like I did, in front of 100 million people since the age of 5, you’re automatically different.”

— Michael Jackson

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226. “Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese. Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”

— Jack Benny

227. “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

228. “A woman who will tell her age, will tell anything.”

— Mary Kay Ash

229. “Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.”

— Mark Twain

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230. “Part of the Disney success is our ability to create a believable world of dreams that appeals to all age groups. The kind of entertainment we create is meant to appeal to every member of the family.”

— Walt Disney

231. “Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

232. “I would give worlds, if I had them, if The Age of Reason had never been published. O Lord, help! Stay with me! It is hell to be left alone.”

— Thomas Paine

233. “Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.”

— Oscar Wilde

234. “Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.”

— George Chapman

235. “About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.”

— Gloria Pitzer

236. “Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.”

— George Bernard Shaw

237. “I am all the ages I’ve ever been.”

— Anne Lamott

238. “This then is the age of reason.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

239. “Power without responsibility – the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.”

— Stanley Baldwin

240. “Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.”

— Maurice Chevalier

241. “Oh, to be seventy again!”

— Georges Clemenceau

242. “Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.”

— Bono

243. “Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected.”

— Immanuel Kant

244. “Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.”

— Napoleon

245. “Thirty – the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

246. “Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”

— Margaret Atwood

247. “The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg’s press did the Middle Ages.”

— Bill Gates

248. “Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.”

— Evelyn Waugh

249. “See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend; A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot; Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.”

— Alexander Pope

250. “Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn’t afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.”

— Ray Bradbury