Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. — William Feather Copy Share Image
I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures. — Rick Astley Copy Share Image
There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look". — Nelson Rockefeller Copy Share Image
“Too much thought is bad for the soul, for art, and for crime. It is also a sign of middle age.” — Patrick Hamilton Copy Share Image
“... you are never so smart again in a language learned in middle age nor so romantic, brave or kind.” — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four. — Dennis Price Copy Share Image
“Middle age is when your age starts to show through your middle… and trust me, MIss, your age doesn’t show in the… — Shayla Orick Copy Share Image
And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta? — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
“It was easy, terribly easy, to become with time a middle-aged spinster with a sharp tongue. She would have to guard against… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
The older I get the more I realize that a significant portion of a parent's happiness or sadness in middle-age will be… — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take… — Franklin Pierce Adams Copy Share Image
Men's gender problems cause them a lot of suffering. There is a massive spiking suicide rate in middle age for men and… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
“I sensed he may have occasionally strayed in some of his past relationships. It was something I felt but ignored, a rent… — Suzanne Finnamore Copy Share Image
“No matter how you tell yourself It's what we all go through Those lines are pretty hard to take When they're staring… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“By spending years and years living entirely for yourself, thinking only about yourself, and having responsibility to no one but yourself, you… — Danielle Crittenden Copy Share Image
“A tennis player at twenty-nine can seem like the oldest person in the world. She's been through an entire life span already,… — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
“It was Joan Blondell’s good fortune—and good sense—to develop a screen character that aged well. When middle age and increasing weight took… — Eve Golden Copy Share Image
“Squandering time is a luxury of profligate youth, when the years are to us as dollars are to billionaires. Doing the same… — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
The Great Recession is not imaginary, and the effects loom large. There was an article in the NYT about the galloping death… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
“Through the trees there was a motion, a person walking on the road. Isabelle watched as the girl - it was Amy… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“...waking at very early dawn amid all that sweat and stink, he had found himself comparing this ghastly journey with his own… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
“Četrdeset mi je godina, ružno doba: čovjek je još mlad da bi imao želja a već star da ih ostvaruje. Tada se… — Meša Selimović Copy Share Image
“and God was there like an island I had not rowed to, still ignorant of Him, my arms, and my legs worked,… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“Many people wake up in middle age with the realization that in their youthful romances and early marriages, they were drawn to… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“I’d like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, “the happiness that attends disaster.” Or: “the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“On the first day of November last year, sacred to many religious calendars but especially the Celtic, I went for a walk… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
“The very old can tell you about peace. They have fought through the black, sinking, visceral knowledge of death–their own death–that heralds… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you. — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places. — E. Joseph Cossman Copy Share Image
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Midlife crises is when your middle age wife reacts badly to your change in priority — Terence Teoh Copy Share Image
“The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it. ” — Doris Day Copy Share Image
