The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Middle age ends and senescence begins, The day your descendants outnumber your friends. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
I'm the woman who used to think that middle-age spread was a cocktail dip. — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
You find yourself approaching middle age, playing another scuzzy rock club. — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
Now, in my middle age, about nineteen in the head I'd say, I am rowing, I am rowing. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.” — William Feather Copy Share Image
“The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.” — Núria Añó Copy Share Image
One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
I really think that people have to think safety; taking risks for higher yield is a bad idea once you're in late… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“both remembered how it all started, and even now, in the middle of my middle age, when I think of that shining… — William Landay Copy Share Image
We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
From when you are young, through middle age, you must grow to the point that you glow, so that your light lets… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
“There comes a time in one’s life, perhaps in middle age, when we stop and assess who we are, and the life… — Fennel Hudson Copy Share Image
Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is - I really… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“Ours was a good love, Eva tells him in her mind. Not the giddy love of teenagers, or that of a married… — Laura Barnett Copy Share Image
“* My friend Bobby works with storytellers in their seventies and eighties in senior living facilities around Chicago. Recently, they told him… — Megan Stielstra Copy Share Image
“Then, as we grow older and enter middle age, something else begins to change. Our energy level drops. Our identity solidifies. We… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
Beautiful city! . . . spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Our male-dominated culture tends to define success in terms of wealth, fame, power, the reaction of others. Women are fed a version… — Catherine Mayer Copy Share Image
“As young adults, we were wearing the shoes of the new future. Our generation would soon be the ones to determine the… — Lynda I Fisher Copy Share Image
It's an American thing, but it's particularly a southern thing, and its romanticization is hyper-Southern. And it's still irresistible to me, even… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I'm not the first one to point out that George Lucas used plastic helmets to cover the faces of the storm troopers… — Henrik Fexeus Copy Share Image
..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
We live a pleasant life shopping at the Food Shoppe . . . taking the kids to the Weinery-Beanery, . . .… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“Watching them, Harmony felt too shaken to take a step. Eddie and Sheba were young; but she herself had become old. Even… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“He had a glimpse at the figure that flitted through the smoking rooms and pages of cheap fiction -a pitiable fellow in… — John Williams Copy Share Image
Clyde Phillip Wachsberger's delightful memoir about tending beds of flowers as compensation for a lonely middle age only to find unexpected romance… — Philip Gambone Copy Share Image
One of the greatest titles we can have is old friend. We never appreciate how important old friends are until we are… — Grant Fairley Copy Share Image
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
Middle age is when you get in the car and immediately change the radio station. — Patricia Penton Leimbach Copy Share Image
“Middle school is for being like everyone else; middle age is for being like yourself. (430)” — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
I just have to live my life knowing that there could be a good chance that I might die in middle age. — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage. — John Andrew Holmes Copy Share Image
Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up. — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon. — Richard Nelson Bolles Copy Share Image
