My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
“Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.” — William Feather Copy Share Image
One of the greatest titles we can have is old friend. We never appreciate how important old friends are until we are… — Grant Fairley 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
“Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Too much thought is bad for the soul, for art, and for crime. It is also a sign of middle age.” — Patrick Hamilton 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
“Ours was a good love, Eva tells him in her mind. Not the giddy love of teenagers, or that of a married… — Laura Barnett Copy Share Image
Man has reached middle age if he can't repeat his follies with impunity; woman, with grace. — Anonymous 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
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
The problem with middle age, at least when it comes to modeling, is you seldom see a model who is past 27,… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
“To say that the frozen silence contracted itself into a yet higher globe of ice were to under-rate the exquisite tension and… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“We all have a central fiction about ourselves, a favored delusion about talent or untapped potential. Most of us hang on to… — Stephen McCauley 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
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
The women cry, Come, my fox, heal me. I am chalk white with middle age so wear me threadbare.... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My dear Mrs. Ali, I would hardly refer to you as old," he said. "You are in what I would call the… — Helen Simonson 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
“You’re young, and like anything new. It’s change you want. I’m middle-aged, and there’s nothing staler to me than change. Constant comfort… — John Davidson Copy Share Image
