Top 500 Age Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.”

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Aphra Behn

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

— Francis Bacon

255. “A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.”

— Voltaire

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

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

257. “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

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

— Lord Byron

259. “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

260. “Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.”

— Sigmund Freud

261. “Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.”

— Emil Cioran

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

263. “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

264. “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

265. “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

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

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Rodney Dangerfield

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

— Johnnie Cochran

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

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Pablo Picasso

271. “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

272. “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

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

— Lil Wayne

274. “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

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

— Pablo Picasso

276. “You are something new in this world. Never before, since the beginning of time, has there ever been anybody exactly like you; and never again throughout all the ages to come will there ever be anybody exactly like you again.”

— Dale Carnegie

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Democritus

279. “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

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

— Coco Chanel

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

— D. H. Lawrence

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

— Colin Powell

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

— Robin Williams

284. “There is no upper limit to what individuals are capable of doing with their minds. There is no age limit that bars them from beginning. There is no obstacle that cannot be overcome if they persist and believe.”

— H. G. Wells

285. “The old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled its banks, spread out in the tranquil dignity of a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth.”

— Joseph Conrad

286. “This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.”

— H. G. Wells

287. “Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Ogden Nash

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

— Edmund Burke

290. “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

291. “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

292. “We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

293. “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

294. “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

295. “The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.”

— John Quincy Adams

296. “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

297. “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

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

299. “Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.”

— Seneca the Younger

300. “I don’t. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?”

— George Bernard Shaw