I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures. — Rick Astley 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
There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look". — Nelson Rockefeller Copy Share Image
“Beware of wishing anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Middle Age, a restful, welcome break from real life, brings some unique opportunities. — Marilyn Suzanne Miller Copy Share Image
Middle Age - When you want to see how long your car will last instead of how fast it will go. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[On middle age:] ... the very real possibility for you of growing fat as you near death and thus being seen by… — Marilyn Suzanne Miller Copy Share Image
One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take… — Franklin Pierce Adams Copy Share Image
The older I get the more I realize that a significant portion of a parent's happiness or sadness in middle-age will be… — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
“It was easy, terribly easy, to become with time a middle-aged spinster with a sharp tongue. She would have to guard against… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Men's gender problems cause them a lot of suffering. There is a massive spiking suicide rate in middle age for men and… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
“... one is creeping into middle age and is less easily distracted by one's appetites, which have grown feebler, and by one's… — Nicholas Murray 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
“Squandering time is a luxury of profligate youth, when the years are to us as dollars are to billionaires. Doing the same… — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
“A tennis player at twenty-nine can seem like the oldest person in the world. She's been through an entire life span already,… — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
“It was Joan Blondell’s good fortune—and good sense—to develop a screen character that aged well. When middle age and increasing weight took… — Eve Golden Copy Share Image
The Great Recession is not imaginary, and the effects loom large. There was an article in the NYT about the galloping death… — Rick Moody 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
“As young adults, we were wearing the shoes of the new future. Our generation would soon be the ones to determine the… — Lynda I Fisher 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
“Through the trees there was a motion, a person walking on the road. Isabelle watched as the girl - it was Amy… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“...waking at very early dawn amid all that sweat and stink, he had found himself comparing this ghastly journey with his own… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one… — Daphne du Maurier 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
When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“This is a central point of this book—we don’t hate violence. We hate and fear the wrong kind of violence, violence in… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“I tell you, life is extraordinary. A few years ago I couldn’t write anything or sell anything, I’d passed the age where… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Middle age is when you're old enough to know better but still young enough to do it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Isn't it enough to be middle-aged and impeccably beautiful? Why must one be economically useful?” — Pietros Maneos Copy Share Image
“It's that in between time Nothing really growing And nothing really dying” — Richard L. Ratliff Copy Share Image