“...one is creeping into middle age and is less easily distracted by one's appetites, which have grown feeble, and by one's passions,… — Nicholas Murray Copy Share Image
“We were not mad youngsters, but love is not confined to the young. Indeed, true love is a phenomenon of middle age,… — Dave Duncan Copy Share Image
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“We may say that all ages are dangerous to all people, in this dangerous life we live. But the thirties are a… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
“All through my sixties I felt I was still within hailing distance of middle age, not safe on its shores, perhaps, but… — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
“After all, when one approaches Middle Age…" "Middle Age? Has anyone ever boxed your ears Miss Thane?" "No, never," said Miss Thane,… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is the key to everything, and this is especially true when one approaches the cultural portal known as "middle age." This… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Someone once said that middle age is like rereading a book that you haven't read since you were a callow youth. The… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
In my mind, if you went back to the Middle Ages, in Italy they'd be speaking Middle Age Italian. And at that… — Jeff Baena Copy Share Image
“Weeping is the emotion of middle age. Once you get to your forties, no joy fails to remind you of its opposite,… — Scott Huler Copy Share Image
“Middle-age should be shot. Things about it gall me. First, that those younger despise the thought of getting old, and, hence, me.… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
Marriage is not something that can be accomplished all at once; it has to be constantly reaccomplished. A couple must never indulge… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
I do know middle age can bring greater depth, greater wisdom, greater capacity for love, greater capacity for relationship, greater consciousness and… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand, had erred… — William Johnson Sollas Copy Share Image
In 'The Big Chill,' those characters are in middle age, thinking, 'Oh, God, I've turned into my parents. I've failed.' And in… — Chris Lowell Copy Share Image
Middle age is Janus-faced. As we look back on our accomplishments and our failures to achieve the things we wanted, we look… — Stanley H Cath Copy Share Image
Like it or not, to reach middle age with less money or less prestige than our father had is somewhat to lose… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
My grandmother refused to concede that any member of the family died of natural causes. An uncle's cancer in middle age occurred… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
For is it not possible that middle age can be looked upon as a period of second flowering, second growth, even a… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
It's funny to see my friends going through that middle-age thing about losing their hair. I went through it in college. They… — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
“When a man gets to middle age shouldn’t he look for a peaceful and stable existence, find a not-too-demanding sort of a… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
“Once, in the rain, a van turned a corner suddenly at her and she stumbled over her boots into a ditch and… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
There was a good deal to be said, Hilary decided, for middle age and infirmity. The years in which one demanded much… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“It seemed to him [Otto Kugelblitz] obvious that the human life span runs through the varieties of mental disorder as understood in… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I have a feeling there is no ideal situation, unless she could go back in time and be 22 again. I think… — Amanda Peet Copy Share Image
Western elites - the beneficiaries of 60 years of peace and prosperity achieved by the sacrifices to defeat fascism and Communism -… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“The middle age pair lay in bed sans underwear and genetics played out to the fear of all. She had a… — Byron Haskins Copy Share Image
My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
![“If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand, had erred in the opposite direction, and pictured Nature when she was 'young and wantoned [sic] in her prime', as moving with the lame sedateness of advanced middle…” quote by William Johnson Sollas](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/462/william-johnson-sollas-104311_age_if-catastrophic-geology-had-at-times-pus_2662542.jpg)
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