Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Middle age ends and senescence begins, the day your descendant's outnumber your friends. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point. — Janet Erskine Stuart Copy Share Image
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'. — June Whitfield Copy Share Image
I was about 40 when I got a glimmer of the wonders archaeology can offer, and I want kids to be able… — Tony Robinson Copy Share Image
Where, where but here have Pride and Truth, That long to give themselves for wage, To shake their wicked sides at youth… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Chance! A word void of all meaning to people of the middle age! Everything is a manifestation of the divine will: this… — Achille Luchaire Copy Share Image
“The word genius was whispered into my ear the first things I ever Heard while I was still mewling in my crib,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“Optimistic young adults stay healthier throughout middle age and, ultimately, live longer than pessimists.” — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
“When one expects to go on "forever" as one does in one's youth or even middle age, horizons are merely limits, not… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
American nuclear reactors are well into middle age. The median age of an operating reactor in the U.S. is 34 years, placing… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
“... one is creeping into middle age and is less easily distracted by one's appetites, which have grown feebler, and by one's… — Nicholas Murray Copy Share Image
When we were children, there was a silent part of us watching the child. When we were adolescents, there was that same… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“It is notorious that the insatiable factory wears out its workers with great rapidity. As it scraps machinery so it scraps human… — Chris Farrell Copy Share Image
“With no interruptions to admire dolly outfits, no tomorrow is a school day, we gorged on fruit and sorbet and splashed immoderate… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“It was one thing to be depressed in your twenties or thirties, when the aspect of youth gave it an undeniable poignancy,… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
As any of us approaches middle age, we inevitably come up against our limitations: the realization that certain dearly-held fantasies may not… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew… — Rachel Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm self-deprecating, but I'm an artist, too. I have to write new songs to chronicle stuff for myself. I write a song… — Steve Forbert Copy Share Image
“I hate the Fourth of July. The early middle age of summer. Everything is alive and kicking for now, but the eventual… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“I have spoken of reinventing marriage, of marriages achieving their rebirth in the middle age of the partners. This phenomenon has been… — Carolyn G. Heilbrun Copy Share Image
“Hers was the timeless tale of the imbalance of power between the sexes, at least in traditional marriages. She was typical of… — Bella Stumbo Copy Share Image
“When the business man rebukes the idealism of his office-boy, it is commonly in some such speech as this: "Ah, yes, when… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the… — George V. Higgins Copy Share Image
“Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“When the riot police came and beat the students in late November, a new group, the Afghan veterans, came to the Maidan.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Our view of reality is like a map with which to negotiate the terrain of life. If the map is true and… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
[On middle age:] ... the very real possibility for you of growing fat as you near death and thus being seen by… — Marilyn Suzanne Miller Copy Share Image
“The first door in the hall leads to youth, the second door leads to middle age, and the third door leads to… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Now, past middle age, with so many books written I still care about and only a few still in print, I know… — Richard Elman Copy Share Image
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“How can so many things become a bore by middle age — philosophy, radicalism, and other fast foods — but heartbreak keeps its sting?” — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
Women or mothers in middle age or mid career have valuable life experience and may offer an untapped recruitment pool. — Hazel Blears Copy Share Image
The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
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