Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
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
“What sort of life have you led that you find yourself, an adult male of late middle age, about to weep among… — August Kleinzahler Copy Share Image
Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful,… — Jeffrey Tate Copy Share Image
Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“...one is creeping into middle age and is less easily distracted by one's appetites, which have grown feeble, and by one's passions,… — Nicholas Murray 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
“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
Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly. — Candice Bergen 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
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
“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
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
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
Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring. — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
“Middle-age should be shot. Things about it gall me. First, that those younger despise the thought of getting old, and, hence, me.… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
“... you are never so smart again in a language learned in middle age nor so romantic, brave or kind.” — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Middle Age, a restful, welcome break from real life, brings some unique opportunities. — Marilyn Suzanne Miller Copy Share Image
“I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm… — John Keble Copy Share Image
Someone once said that middle age is like rereading a book that you haven't read since you were a callow youth. The… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution — Abraham Lincoln 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
