Middle age Quotes

God, middle age is an unending insult.

— Dorothea Benton Frank

Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.

— Laurence J. Peter

Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age.

— Elliot Paul

“You could have heard a bee fluff”

— S.W. Lothian

We in middle age require adventure.

— Anonymous

Fear comes with middle age.

— Lillian Hellman

Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.

— Elliot Paul

“Capture your youth, while you can.”

— Anthony Liccione

After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.

— Mason Cooley

Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring.

— Clare Boothe Luce

Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you.

— Robert Quillen

“... in the youth of middle age--square-shouldered, stocky, decisive, blatantly virile-- ...”

— A.J. Liebling

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

— Irvin S. Cobb

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

— William Feather

When youre thirty youre old enough to know better, but still young enough to go ahead and do it.

— Brigitte Bardot

Middle age is when you find out where the action is so you can go someplace else.

— Patricia Penton Leimbach

“Chance! A word void of all meaning to people of the middle age! Everything is a manifestation of the divine will: this…

— Achille Luchaire

“The word genius was whispered into my ear the first things I ever Heard while I was still mewling in my crib,…

— Anonymous

Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.

— Jerry Saltz

“Optimistic young adults stay healthier throughout middle age and, ultimately, live longer than pessimists.”

— Angela Duckworth

“When one expects to go on "forever" as one does in one's youth or even middle age, horizons are merely limits, not…

— Archibald MacLeish

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

“The first door in the hall leads to youth, the second door leads to middle age, and the third door leads to…

— Jarod Kintz

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty…

— James Ellroy

As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly,…

— Julie Burchill

The time passes so quickly during these full and active middle years that most people arrive at the end of middle age…

— Robert J. Havighurst

In the Middle Age, in Germany, if you wanted to learn addition and multiplication, you could go to any university. But if…

— Israel Gelfand

“The gentleman in charge of the Correspondence Courses was plainly doubtful about the prisoner of middle age who was anxious to enroll…

— Lewis E. Lawes

“What sort of life have you led that you find yourself, an adult male of late middle age, about to weep among…

— August Kleinzahler

The reason the middle section switches to third person is, well, this is middle age. This is the part in her life…

— Danielle Dutton

Here's flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun And with him rises…

— William Shakespeare

A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work; but whereas the composer…

— Harry S. Broudy

“Četrdeset mi je godina, ružno doba: čovjek je još mlad da bi imao želja a već star da ih ostvaruje. Tada se…

— Meša Selimović

“and God was there like an island I had not rowed to, still ignorant of Him, my arms, and my legs worked,…

— Anne Sexton

“I’d like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, “the happiness that attends disaster.” Or: “the…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“On the first day of November last year, sacred to many religious calendars but especially the Celtic, I went for a walk…

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

“The very old can tell you about peace. They have fought through the black, sinking, visceral knowledge of death–their own death–that heralds…

— Anne Rivers Siddons

“Many people wake up in middle age with the realization that in their youthful romances and early marriages, they were drawn to…

— Sam Keen

“Marriage can be made to work if both the partners can see beyond themselves and understand the limitations,needs and abilities of the…

— Chitralekha Paul

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan,…

— George Santayana