Top 500 Age Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one’s family traits become.”

— Marcel Proust

302. “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

303. “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

304. “After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Kobe Bryant

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

— Ernest Hemingway

307. “Information is the oxygen of the modern age.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Sigmund Freud

309. “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

310. “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

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

— Salvador Dalí

312. “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

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

— Don DeLillo

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

— Charles Dickens

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

— Michel de Montaigne

316. “When you get to my age, and I’m 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn’t bother you much.”

— John Cleese

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

— Bob Dylan

318. “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

319. “I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.”

— Rose Kennedy

320. “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

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

— Leo Tolstoy

322. “When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, ‘It’s not the days that are old, it’s you that’s old.’ I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— William Feather

325. “Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief from Bag-End long ago. He had not had a pocket-handkerchief for ages.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

326. “When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn’t anger me.”

— Mark Twain

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327. “Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

328. “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

329. “In an age where community involvement and partnerships with civil society are increasingly being recognized as indispensable, there is clearly a growing potential for cooperative development and renewal worldwide.”

— Kofi Annan

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

— Boomer Esiason

331. “Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Gerald Brenan

333. “Young. Old. Just Words.”

— George Burns

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

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

— Judi Dench

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

— Bertrand Russell

337. “Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.”

— Walt Disney

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

— Gore Vidal

339. “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

340. “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

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341. “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

342. “With age, art and life become one.”

— Georges Braque

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

— Robert Browning

344. “At what age do you think it’s appropriate to tell a highway it’s adopted?”

— Zach Galifianakis

345. “I do not ask to be young again; all I want is to go on getting older.”

— Konrad Adenauer

346. “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

347. “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

348. “Old. A viable die-able age.”

— Arundhati Roy

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Christian Dior