“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
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
“Many people wake up in middle age with the realization that in their youthful romances and early marriages, they were drawn to… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“You know what it's like, finding eight middle-aged guys having tantric sex with ostriches?” — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
“Excavations at Ai Khanoum on the northern border of modern Afghanistan have produced great quantities of Greek inscriptions and even the remnants… — Robin Lane Fox 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
“Middle school is for being like everyone else; middle age is for being like yourself. (430)” — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Marriage is not something that can be accomplished all at once; it has to be constantly reaccomplished. A couple must never indulge… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“Just then things weren't going so well in my life. My business was precariously perched on the brink of bankruptcy, my anemic… — William Lashner Copy Share Image
“He had a glimpse at the figure that flitted through the smoking rooms and pages of cheap fiction -a pitiable fellow in… — John Williams Copy Share Image
The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up. — Bob Hope 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
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
American nuclear reactors are well into middle age. The median age of an operating reactor in the U.S. is 34 years, placing… — Bill Dedman 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
“ I'd Better Not-- A man leaned over to a man in a pub And said in a voice ‘I used to… — Ian McMillan Copy Share Image
“For Nature, if she once endows man or woman with romance, gives them so rich a store of it as shall last… — John Meade Falkner 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
“The word genius was whispered into my ear the first things I ever Heard while I was still mewling in my crib,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Midlife crises is when your middle age wife reacts badly to your change in priority — Terence Teoh Copy Share Image
I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“By spending years and years living entirely for yourself, thinking only about yourself, and having responsibility to no one but yourself, you… — Danielle Crittenden Copy Share Image
