Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Identifying as a Pagan, feminist, Witch, and anarchist is possibly a way to alarm great segments of the general public, but at… — Starhawk 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… — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
Oxford whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . . . Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“It dawned on him gradually that he had entered middle-age without ever being young, and that he was, in the nicest possible… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“One of the odd things about middle age...was the strange decisions a man discovers he’s made by not really making them.” — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“The young have aspirations that never comes to pass,the old have reminiscences of what never happened. It's only the middle-aged who are… — Saki Copy Share Image
If you can't be pretty, you have to learn to make yourself attractive. I found that all the pretty girls I went… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
“At some point in youth an old person will tell you a harsh truth you will not believe, in middle age you… — C.A.A. Savastano Copy Share Image
There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
I suppose that anyone who does any kind of creative work some time in their life - especially as you grow into… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
I had no intention of providing any answers or solutions, because you'd only look a fool, but I did want to talk… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
“There is a thing called knowledge of the world, which people do not have until they are middle-aged. It is something which… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“He was miles past middle age with a gut that housed ample good meals. A patch of silver hair formed a trail… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Now Janie ordered a drink and glanced at the bar menu, choosing the goat curry because she'd never had it before. "You… — Sharon Guskin Copy Share Image
“Deception is the natural defence of the weak against the strong, and the South used it for many years against its conquerors;… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“They say the eyes are the first thing to go”—he glances meaningfully at the reading glasses—“but I say it’s curiosity. People hit… — Jennifer Haigh Copy Share Image
Dear Lord, who made the face of me not all that I would have it be, not really homely, only plain, but… — Ruth Perry Copy Share Image
A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Teenagers have time + energy, but no money. Middle age people have money + energy, but no time. Old people have time… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You may never live long enough to discover who you are, but by the time you reach middle age you will hopefully… — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
“(You know you've reached middle-age if...) when you hear 'Boys in the hood' you think of the Ku Klux Klan.” — Joey Green Copy Share Image
The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“Seven Ages: first puking and mewling Then very pissed-off with your schooling Then fucks, and then fights Next judging chaps' rights Then… — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image
“For thirty or forty years, through middle age, they would look almost exactly the same, and then all of a sudden the… — Matthew Mather Copy Share Image
“Late middle age, he was coming to understand, was a time of life when everything was predictable and yet somehow you failed… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
It's kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
“Middle age isn’t about filling out, but thinning. I’m going to have to find ways of plumping it, like blowing up a… — Cate Ray Copy Share Image
I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
From middle age on, there's nothing more vital to your health and weight control than building lean muscle mass, and the only… — Suzanne Somers Copy Share Image
At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age. — Charles Busch Copy Share Image
Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Middle age is when you go to bed at night and hope you feel better in the morning. Old age is when… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image