Top 500 Age Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “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

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

— Philip Roth

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

355. “This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.”

— Lord Byron

356. “The evening of life brings with it its lamps.”

— Joseph Joubert

357. “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

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

— Muhammad Ali

359. “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

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

— Marlene Dietrich

361. “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

362. “In short, the best thing to do is behave in a manner befitting one’s age. If you are sixteen or under, try not to go bald.”

— Woody Allen

363. “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

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364. “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

365. “At 68 I’m every age I ever was. I always think of that. I’m not just 68. I’m also 55 and 21 and three. Oh especially three.”

— George Carlin

366. “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

367. “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

368. “And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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

— Yasunari Kawabata

370. “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

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

— Kirsten Dunst

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

— Michael Jackson

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

— Brigitte Bardot

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Jonathan Swift

376. “Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food – see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

377. “At my age I’m envious of a stiff wind.”

— Rodney Dangerfield

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

— Javier Bardem

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

380. “India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.”

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Denis Waitley

382. “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

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383. “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

384. “The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.”

— Ayn Rand

385. “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

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Albert Camus

388. “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

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

— Jerome S. Bruner

390. “I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Dave Barry

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

— Billie Burke

393. “Conscience connects us with the wisdom of the ages and the wisdom of the heart.”

— Stephen R. Covey

394. “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

395. “Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.”

— Terry Pratchett

396. “Age considers; youth ventures.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

397. “You have the power to reverse your age.”

— Deepak Chopra

398. “When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.”

— Mark Twain

399. “This may be the age of automation, but love is still being made by hand.”

— Evan Esar

400. “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