Top 500 Age Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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

252. “When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It’s a cool age.”

— Eliza Dushku

253. “The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.”

— Edmund Burke

254. “Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.”

— Lord Chesterfield

255. “Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.”

— Thomas Paine

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

— Anne Lamott

257. “The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.”

— Andrew Carnegie

258. “When it comes to sex, at my age I like threesomes. In case one of us dies.”

— Rodney Dangerfield

259. “This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

260. “Beauty with character ages better than perfection.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Napoleon

262. “The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!”

— George Bernard Shaw

263. “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

264. “It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage...”

— Robert Frost

265. “It is perhaps not a surprise that photography developed as a technological medium in the industrial age, when reality started to disappear. It is even perhaps the disappearance of reality that triggered this technical form. Reality found a way to mutate into an image.”

— Jean Baudrillard

266. “The old men know when an old man dies.”

— Ogden Nash

267. “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

268. “Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

269. “Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.”

— Ernest Hemingway

270. “My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

271. “Those who are humble enough to learn anew will succeed in this new age.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

272. “The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.”

— Democritus

273. “I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.”

— Johnnie Cochran

274. “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

275. “Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery of life is slowly revealed to us.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

276. “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

277. “Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.”

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Mark Twain

279. “Teach players the game at an early age and stop treating them like cash cows for everyone to profit off of.”

— Kobe Bryant

280. “Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.”

— Chuck Close

281. “They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.”

— Alice Munro

282. “The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It’s worth being bashed against. It’s worth getting scarred by. It’s worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.”

— Jeff Buckley

283. “I was handed a tough life lesson at a very early age.”

— Boomer Esiason

284. “Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.”

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Will Rogers

286. “After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one’s family traits become.”

— Marcel Proust

287. “Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.”

— Michel de Montaigne

288. “Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.”

— Colin Powell

289. “Gotta get it, even if it’s in the worse way. Got cake like everyday my birthday.”

— Lil Wayne

290. “The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.”

— Robin Williams

291. “Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.”

— Salvador Dalí

292. “In an age where there is much talk about “being yourself,” I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else.”

— Thomas Merton

293. “We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.”

— Don DeLillo

294. “I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

295. “At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.”

— Samuel Johnson

296. “It is often necessary to make a decision on the basis of knowledge sufficient for action but insufficient to satisfy the intellect.”

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Stanley Baldwin

298. “Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.”

— Gore Vidal

299. “In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.”

— Charles Dickens

300. “You can wear black in any moment of the day, no matter your age. You can wear black with almost any occasion. A black dress is essential for every woman.”

— Christian Dior