Top 500 Age Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.”

— Richard P. Feynman

402. “We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

403. “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

404. “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

405. “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

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

— Frederick Douglass

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

— Voltaire

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

— Betty Friedan

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

410. “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

411. “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

412. “Go ahead: Live with abandon. Be outrageous at any age. What are you saving your best self for?”

— Oprah Winfrey

413. “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

414. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.”

— Umberto Eco

415. “Then Elrond and Galadriel rode on; for the Third Age was over and the Days of the Rings were passed and an end was come of the story and song of those times.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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

— D. H. Lawrence

417. “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

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

420. “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

421. “Ignore fact and reason, live entirely in the world of your own fantastic and myth-producing passions; do this whole-heartedly and with conviction, and you will become one of the prophets of your age.”

— Bertrand Russell

422. “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

423. “Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

424. “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

425. “One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

426. “A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.”

— William Wordsworth

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

— Mason Cooley

428. “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

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

— Ogden Nash

430. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

432. “Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Benjamin Franklin

434. “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

435. “You can reverse your biological age by changing your perceptions.”

— Deepak Chopra

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Rose Kennedy

439. “My mum died about three years ago at the age of 101, and just towards the end, as she began to run out of energy, she did actually stop trying to tell me what to do most of the time.”

— John Cleese

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

— Amelia E. Barr

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

— Sherman Alexie

442. “For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

443. “The word “Capitalism” expresses, for our age, the sum of all evil. Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas.”

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Isabel Allende

446. “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

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

448. “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

449. “I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.”

— Charles Dickens

450. “The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war. The wars of our age are not at variance with popular economic doctrines; they are, on the contrary, the inescapable result of a consistent application of these doctrines.”

— Ludwig von Mises