Middle age Quote by A.J. Liebling

“All three are hip-deep in midlife, when the eyes go and the waistline spreads and the city on the hill that shone so brightly…

— Mary McNamara

“The nobility of age is that it conceals from the young the futility of effort.”

— Yeo-tze

“Youth, youth- something savage- something pedantic. For example there is Mr. Masefield, there is Mr. Bennett. Stuff them into the flame of Marlowe and…

— Virginia Woolf

“Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check?”

— Friedrich von Schiller

“Youth is a marvelous garment. How misplaced is the sympathy lavished on adolescents. There is a yet more difficult age which comes later, when…

— Iris Murdoch

“There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should. As it has ever been.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“Silly youth and presumptuous senility: the world remains the same as always...”

— Jeff Ampolini

“Under the eighteenth century fashion people did not so much all pretend to be young, as all agree to be old.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“All the sanguine guesswork of youth is there, and the silliness; all the novelty of being alive and impressed by the urgency of tremendous…

— Siegfried Sassoon

“...young people...who were casually profane, as though the validation of their own power could be achieved only by their assault on the sensibilities of…

— James Lee Burke

“There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“He was not ill-fitted to be the head and representative of a community which owed its origin and progress, and its present state of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne