Top 500 Age Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “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

352. “I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.”

— Frederick Douglass

353. “Simple femininity is the most important thing about a woman, and it is a quality a great many women are in jeopardy of losing. Women are being emancipated out of their femininity in this modern age.”

— Yul Brynner

354. “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

355. “Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman’s age, but you can’t fool a flight of stairs.”

— Marlene Dietrich

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

— Georges Braque

357. “Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.”

— James Thurber

358. “When satire flies abroad on falsehood’s wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But when to truth allied, the wound she gives Sinks deep, and to remotest ages lives.”

— Charles Churchill

359. “The wisdom of age: don’t stop walking.”

— Mason Cooley

360. “God never deserted our people. Right through the ages there were Jews. Through the ages they suffered, but it also made us strong.”

— Anne Frank

361. “Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.”

— Billie Burke

362. “Our model citizen is a sophisticate who, before puberty, understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato.”

— Wendell Berry

363. “Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

364. “Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

365. “Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.”

— D. H. Lawrence

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

— Zach Galifianakis

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

— Ronald Reagan

368. “I don’t look my age, I don’t feel my age and I don’t act my age. To me age is just a number.”

— Joan Collins

369. “I say if you love something, set it in a small cage and pester and smother it with love until it either loves you back or dies.”

— Mindy Kaling

370. “Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time.”

— Javier Bardem

371. “You know, by the time you reach my age, you’ve made plenty of mistakes if you’ve lived your life properly.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

373. “Middle age ends and senescence begins, the day your descendant’s outnumber your friends.”

— Ogden Nash

374. “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

375. “I’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often, but I’m well preserved.”

— Rose Kennedy

376. “Today, you’re 50. Now we can round your age up to 100! Happy 50th birthday!”

— Dave Barry

377. “A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable.”

— Sigmund Freud

378. “Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

379. “No matter what age you are, if you have it and you know it, then people should listen to you.”

— Michael Jackson

380. “Instead of failure being the outcome, failure became not trying. And it forced me at a young age to want to push myself so much further out of my comfort zone.”

— Sara Blakely

381. “The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

382. “I’m my age and I feel glorious.”

— Betty Friedan

383. “Old age isn’t a battle; old age is a massacre.”

— Philip Roth

384. “Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Konrad Adenauer

386. “I love things that age well – things that don’t date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.”

— Giorgio Armani

387. “You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages – they haven’t ended yet.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

388. “So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel’d road.”

— Walt Whitman

389. “Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.”

— Albert Camus

390. “Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

391. “Old age is the verdict of life.”

— Amelia E. Barr

392. “Being immortal must have a lot of attractions. You can travel all over the world, see everything, do everything. But what happens if you are immortal and your friends and family are not? You are then destined to watch them age and die.”

— Michael Scott

393. “People do not retire. They are retired by others.”

— Duke Ellington

394. “Once you reach a certain age, you’re either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter.”

— Marianne Williamson

395. “At another year I would not boggle Except that when I jog I joggle.”

— Ogden Nash

396. “Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.”

— Walter Bagehot

397. “In some place in my soul, in a very hidden corner, I am a fanatical Jew. I am very much astonished to discover myself as such in spite of all efforts to be unprejudiced and impartial. What can I do against it at my age?”

— Sigmund Freud

398. “Age considers; youth ventures.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

399. “Age: I go slower as time goes faster.”

— Mason Cooley

400. “You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or position in life.”

— Denis Waitley