Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Like I said in one of my songs, as a man, you're at your best when you're middle age. — Benny the Butcher Copy Share Image
Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one thatll get you home earlier. — Dan Bennett Copy Share Image
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.Middle Age — E Joseph Cossman Copy Share Image
You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“The first door in the hall leads to youth, the second door leads to middle age, and the third door leads to… — Jarod Kintz 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
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 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
Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“Chance! A word void of all meaning to people of the middle age! Everything is a manifestation of the divine will: this… — Achille Luchaire Copy Share Image
“Optimistic young adults stay healthier throughout middle age and, ultimately, live longer than pessimists.” — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
I grew up in the South, and our way of dealing with each other was teasing, ribbing, making fun and scrapping in… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“To pore over the literary shortcomings of twenty years ago, to attempt to patch a faulty work into the perfection it missed… — Huxley, Aldous Copy Share Image
“the translator says that a sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Past middle age, some friends suggested that I should have my eyebags removed, the deepening creases on my face stretched. I often… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I wonder how long this word will last, governed exclusively by the merciless, inhuman and immoral criteria of global economy. Seeing the… — Tiziano Terzani 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
'Housewives' has shone a light on women of middle age, that you're not out of the game, you're not old, you're not… — Erika Jayne Copy Share Image
“He was blown, his agents were hanged, and he entered the long middle age of the grounded pro. He did hackwork in… — John le Carré 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
“What had happened was this: I fell out of my own map. It's an easy thing to do, especially in middle age,… — Lynn Darling Copy Share Image
“In good truth he had started in London with some vague idea that as his life in it would not be of… — Charlotte Riddell Copy Share Image
“I just wish moments weren’t so fleeting!' Isaac called to the man on the roof, 'They pass so quickly!' 'Fleeting?!' responded the… — Roman Payne 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
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
“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
Middle age is when you say, 'I did that twenty years ago' and twenty years doesn't cover it. — L Vincent Majestic Copy Share Image
“Senescence begins And middle-age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends” — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
“Death has become so predictable that I have neither the youthful reverence of it nor the middle-age fear.” — Meghna Pant Copy Share Image
Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon. — Richard Nelson Bolles Copy Share Image
“What were the living dead, Wolgast thought, but a metaphor for the misbegotten march of middle age?” — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
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