Top 500 Age Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.”

— Voltaire

402. “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

403. “I am poor – obscure – just eighteen years of age – with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.”

— Katherine Mansfield

404. “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

405. “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

406. “You do a period of go-karting until you’re at the age of qualifying for a ride in a ‘school-kart,’ then you qualify for driving school. And several of the driving schools have a competition series for their own students.”

— Mario Andretti

407. “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

408. “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

409. “Society decides when we get old. But the spirit never ages.”

— Isabel Allende

410. “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

411. “Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.”

— Voltaire

412. “Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.”

— Henry Ford

413. “A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.”

— Alexander Pope

414. “I have now reached the happy age of 23. No, happy is not quite the right word. At this particular moment I am certainly not happy.”

— Eva Braun

415. “You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.”

— Cheryl Strayed

416. “Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder – no matter how old you became and how much you’d seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.”

— Candace Bushnell

417. “He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.”

— Voltaire

418. “I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.”

— Sherman Alexie

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

— Rodney Dangerfield

420. “You make do with what you have. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have.”

— Haruki Murakami

421. “If the feudal knight was the clearest embodiment of society in the early Middle Ages, and the “bourgeois” under Capitalism, the educated person will represent society in the post-capitalist society in which knowledge has become the central resource.”

— Peter F. Drucker

422. “What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.”

— Octavio Paz

423. “Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

424. “Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.”

— Jacqueline Bisset

425. “The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.”

— Alfred Adler

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

— Lord Byron

427. “Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

428. “All would live long, but none would be old.”

— Benjamin Franklin

429. “I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.”

— Benjamin Franklin

430. “There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.”

— T. S. Eliot

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Joseph Joubert

433. “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

434. “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

435. “Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.”

— Charlotte Brontë

436. “Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.”

— Ezra Taft Benson

437. “Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.”

— Honoré de Balzac

438. “Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all – every gender, race, creed, sexual orientation, age, and ability.”

— Bella Abzug

439. “Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.”

— Mark Twain

440. “We are rag dolls made out of many ages and skins, changelings who have slept in wood nests, and hissed in the uncouth guise of waddling amphibians. We have played such roles for infinitely longer ages than we have been human. Our identity is a dream. We are process, not reality.”

— Loren Eiseley

441. “In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

442. “Are men intimated by sexually confident women, you ask? I think men are intimated by any woman who says they are sexually confident, at no matter what age.”

— Jennifer Aniston

443. “Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

444. “Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.”

— Walt Whitman

445. “Our thoughts determine our age.”

— Yoko Ono

446. “Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.”

— Thomas Jefferson

447. “The force that through the green fuse drives the flower drives my green age.”

— Dylan Thomas

448. “Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.”

— Anne Bradstreet

449. “I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often.”

— Julio Cortázar

450. “Dreams age faster than dreamers.”

— Stephen King