Middle Age Quotes
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Middle Age Quotes & Sayings
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Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Middle school is for being like everyone else; middle age is for being like yourself. (430)
— Victoria Moran
Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.
— John Williams
It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.
— Cyril Connolly
Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.
— Phyllis Diller
You find yourself approaching middle age, playing another scuzzy rock club.
— Juliana Hatfield
There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals.
— Ralph Borsodi
I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case.
— Hilary Mantel
I never accept lengthy film roles nowadays, because I am always so afraid I will die in the middle of shooting and cause such awful problems.
— John Gielgud
The middle of life has these cul-de-sac days. In your twenties you think, Surely I am going somewhere, and later
as in now
you think, Nope. — Leslie Daniels
as in now
you think, Nope. — Leslie Daniels
Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride!
— Bertha Von Suttner
Jokes about Crazy Cat Ladies seem harmless enough, but at their core is a disturbing echo of the hysterical witch superstitions of the Middle Age.
— Tom Cox
Now, past middle age, with so many books written I still care about and only a few still in print, I know the feeling of being overlooked.
— Richard Elman
Here is what happens in middle age: Some friends and acquaintances who were merely eccentric for years become unmistakably mad.
— Jenny Offill
Walk your own path and be yourself
— Joanne Nussbaum
Middle age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired.
— Laurence J. Peter
We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.
— Neil Postman
What were the living dead, Wolgast thought, but a metaphor for the misbegotten march of middle age?
— Justin Cronin
Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.
— Laurence J. Peter
There are only three kinds of Irishmen who can't understand women. Young men, old men and men of middle age.
— Elizabeth Berg
Middle Age, a restful, welcome break from real life, brings some unique opportunities.
— Marilyn Suzanne Miller
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
— Ogden Nash
I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.
— Gertrude Stein
I hope to die right in the middle of a song and right on the stage doing what I love to do. I hope to be about 120 when that happens.
— Dolly Parton
(You know you've reached middle-age if ... ) when you hear 'Boys in the hood' you think of the Ku Klux Klan.
— Joey Green
I really think that people have to think safety; taking risks for higher yield is a bad idea once you're in late or latish middle age.
— Paul Krugman
Middle age is when you find out where the action is so you can go someplace else.
— Patricia Penton Leimbach
It's said, after all, that people reach middle age the day they realize they're never going to read Remembrance of Things Past.
— Alison Bechdel
Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
— Mason Cooley
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
— Gore Vidal
When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing.
— C.S. Lewis
Ruthless is the temper of royalty; How much better to live among the equals.Let me decline in a safe old age. The very name of the "middle way".
— Euripides
Middle age is when you get in the car and immediately change the radio station.
— Patricia Penton Leimbach
Death has become so predictable that I have neither the youthful reverence of it nor the middle-age fear.
— Meghna Pant
Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest
But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest. — John Keble
But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest. — John Keble
I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you.
— Robert Quillen
A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.
— William A. Henry III
Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring.
— Clare Boothe Luce
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
— Oscar Wilde
Women or mothers in middle-age or mid-career have valuable life experience and may offer an untapped recruitment pool.
— Hazel Blears
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
— E. Joseph Cossman
I'm forty-two years old - which is a lot more like middle age than forty or even forty-one.
— Claire Messud
When I was a kid I respected authority, then as a teenager I gave none; in middle age I expected it; now in old age I live by the word.
— Horace Dyer
He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour .
— Andrew Dickson White
Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper class.
— Charles Dickens
Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.
— Karl Kraus
The three true ages of man are youth, middle age, and how the fuck did I get old so soon?
— Stephen King
Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.
— Candice Bergen
The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
— Gail Sheehy
In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.
— John Knox
Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.
— Ronald Reagan
Middle age is such a low point for well-being; it's at the bottom of a U-shaped curve that shows greater happiness among the younger and older people.
— Jed Diamond
Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
— Mason Cooley
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
— Don Marquis
Egdar Derby, mournfully pregnant with patriotism and middle age and imaginary wisdom. And so on.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
— Don Marquis
He was past youth, but had not reached middle-age; perhaps he might be thirty-five.
— Charlotte Bronte
We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
— Hans Kung
The rise of the global middle class will pave the way for a new golden age in Australian society.
— Asher Judah
Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.
— Candice Bergen
You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up.
— Bob Hope
Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
All the world's Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.
— Richard Dawkins
Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.
— Lillian Gordy Carter
Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.
— Elliot Paul
My age fallen away like white swaddling
Floats in the middle distance, becomes
An inhabited cloud. — Philip Larkin
Floats in the middle distance, becomes
An inhabited cloud. — Philip Larkin
Progressive policies implemented since the early 1900s launched America into the modern age and created a vibrant middle class.
— Keith Ellison
You are never so smart again in a language learned in middle age nor so romantic, brave or kind.
— Garrison Keillor
What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
— Sylvia Plath
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.
— William Feather
Caught in the moorless place between young adulthood and middle age, we were just learning how to forgive ourselves.
— Chloe Benjamin
It is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.
— Janet Erskine Stuart
I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31. I didn't sleep on people's couches.
— John Lithgow
Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.
— Robert Lowell
I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.
— James Thurber
The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.
— Harold Innis
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
— William Ralph Inge
Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.
— Mignon McLaughlin
They seemed to be of that age when things were either one or the other, with no middle ground.
— Kate Griffin