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… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“There are only three kinds of Irishmen who can't understand women. Young men, old men and men of middle age.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“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… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quench'd the open truth And fiery vehemence… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality. — Alec-Tweedie Copy Share Image
You know you've reached middle age when you're cautioned to slow down by your doctor, instead of by the police. — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
There are a lot of single, balding, middle age men out there who do not know how lucky they are that they… — KM II Copy Share Image
By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
Although there are countless tangents that a career in the building arts can take, it is nonetheless most unusual for a major… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
When asked "What do we need to learn this for?" any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Life is not stationary. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years all tick away at the same clip for everyone. No… — Hugh W. Pinnock 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 passions,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Gardening is one of the rewards of middle age, when one is ready for an impersonal passion, a passion that demands patience,… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Most established novelists are writing books informed by experiences gained in their youth. Middle age is not the best time to be… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“Less mutable qualities, like age, may have worked against me too. My résumé revealed only that I was probably over forty. But… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“an attractive middle-aged school teacher who was taking time out after a few hours gardening and who, even in these relaxed, unguarded… — Mike McCormack Copy Share Image
“My youth was the most stubborn, peremptory part of myself. In my most relaxed moments, it governed my being. It pricked up… — Susan Choi 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
“Perhaps middle age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh 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
“ Sonnet I am no stranger in the house of pain; I am familiar with its every part, From the low stile,… — Robert Nathan Copy Share Image
From youth to middle, and often to past middle, age, most men are apt to be too closely engaged in the struggle… — Richard A. Proctor Copy Share Image
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other,… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Middle-age has its compensations. You feel no need to do what you do not like. You are no longer ashamed of yourself;… — Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon Copy Share Image
“It makes me wonder now, in middle age, if being spontaneous and kind and curious are all parts of our natural ability… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To the Latin, cynicism and middle age are synonymous. Look at our politicians - they move through their careers from left to… — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age,… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“I concentrate on Anna, noting the carefully put-together earth-toned outfit—could it be that all women of a certain age are assigned to… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of middle age is find out that one WAS right,and that one was much righter than one knew… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first indication of menopause is a broken thermostat. It's either that or your weight. In any case, if you don't do… — Dorothea Benton Frank Copy Share Image
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
