Top 500 Age Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.”

— Rose Kennedy

302. “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

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

— Emil Cioran

304. “I had a very rough childhood and not a happy one and by age 15 I was an old person in many ways. I knew that I had to take care of myself, I um and I always did.”

— Isabel Allende

305. “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

306. “The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it’s just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age.”

— Carl Sagan

307. “After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.”

— Sigmund Freud

308. “Remember this. Bear Bryant retired at age 69, and he died 28 days after he stopped coaching. If you don’t have something, and a purpose in your life, you’re gonna die.”

— Lou Holtz

309. “What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.”

— Robert Browning

310. “Oh, to be seventy again!”

— Georges Clemenceau

311. “In this age of fiberglass, I’m searching for a gem.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— R. Buckminster Fuller

313. “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

314. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

316. “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

317. “The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

— Sigmund Freud

319. “Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be a great deal younger.”

— Yasunari Kawabata

320. “Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.”

— William Feather

321. “Old. A viable die-able age.”

— Arundhati Roy

322. “If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.”

— Michel Foucault

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

— Voltaire

324. “There’s nothing good about being my age.”

— Judi Dench

325. “In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.”

— Christian Dior

326. “All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.”

— George Orwell

327. “I’m very mature for my age, but I’m also innocent in a lot of ways.”

— Kirsten Dunst

328. “Youth, large, lusty, loving – Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?”

— Walt Whitman

329. “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

330. “A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.”

— C. S. Lewis

331. “Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.”

— Jonathan Swift

332. “Young. Old. Just Words.”

— George Burns

333. “The best thing about being 55 is that I know enough now to know what I want and what I don’t want-and what I want is to have fun.”

— Bobbi Brown

334. “The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists of the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself.”

— Bertrand Russell

335. “Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.”

— Gerald Brenan

336. “The greatest tragedy in the history of Christianity was neither the Crusades nor the Reformation nor the Inquisition, but rather the split that opened up between theology and spirituality at the end of the Middle Ages.”

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

337. “Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.”

— Brigitte Bardot

338. “One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”

— Oscar Wilde

339. “Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

340. “To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.”

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

341. “When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.”

— Mark Twain

342. “Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.”

— Muhammad Ali

343. “Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.”

— Ernest Hemingway

344. “I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too.”

— Annie Dillard

345. “Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.”

— Seneca the Younger

346. “Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

347. “The opportunities for infinite possibility exist no matter what age we are.”

— Marianne Williamson

348. “My first advice on how not to grow old would be to choose you ancestors carefully.”

— Bertrand Russell

349. “Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we’ve seen it up close.”

— Marianne Williamson

350. “The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form.”

— Jerome S. Bruner