Top 500 Age Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.”

— Dorothy Parker

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Bono

204. “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

205. “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

206. “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

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

— Oscar Wilde

208. “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

209. “Tomorrow can be a wonderful age.”

— Walt Disney

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

— John Milton

211. “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

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Mario Puzo

214. “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

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

— Neil Gaiman

216. “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

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

— Margaret Atwood

218. “You know you’ve reached middle age when you’re cautioned to slow down by your doctor, instead of by the police.”

— Joan Rivers

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

221. “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

222. “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

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

— Mary Kay Ash

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

— George Chapman

225. “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

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

— Phyllis Diller

227. “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

228. “There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.”

— Sophocles

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

— Gloria Pitzer

230. “Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may.”

— Jon Stewart

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

— Maurice Chevalier

232. “All life events are formative. All contribute to what we become, year by year, as we go on growing. As my friend the poet Kenneth Koch once said, You aren’t just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!”

— Fred Rogers

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Immanuel Kant

235. “I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

236. “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

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

— Oscar Wilde

238. “Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.”

— D. H. Lawrence

239. “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

240. “We don’t grow older, we grow riper.”

— Pablo Picasso

241. “I am ashes where once I was fire...”

— Lord Byron

242. “A woman has the age she deserves.”

— Coco Chanel

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

— Oscar Wilde

244. “Never ask age of a woman.”

— Douglas MacArthur

245. “A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.”

— Francis Bacon

246. “One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.”

— Pablo Picasso

247. “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

248. “One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.”

— Aphra Behn

249. “People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That’s the disease of our age...”

— Pablo Picasso

250. “Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.”

— Margaret Fuller