Midlife crises is when your middle age wife reacts badly to your change in priority — Terence Teoh Copy Share Image
“The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it. ” — Doris Day 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
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places. — E. Joseph Cossman Copy Share Image
I'm the woman who used to think that middle-age spread was a cocktail dip. — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
Middle age ends and senescence begins, The day your descendants outnumber your friends. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you. — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
One of the great sadnesses of my life, as I take stock at middle age, is the sense that the adventure largely… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
My mother had demonstrated that the best way to defeat the numbing ambivalence of middle age is to surprise yourself - by… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age. — Sylvia Plath 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
Today age segregation has passed all sane limits. Not only are fifteen-year-olds isolated from seventy-year-olds but social groups divide those in high… — Suzanne Gordon 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
“If the onset of wrinkles in middle age were referred to as laughter lines, then to look at him, Scott thought, Twinkle's… — R.D. Ronald Copy Share Image
Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but,… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“That’s the funny thing about writing your life story. You start out trying to remember dates and times and names. You think… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
The worst thing about this particular end (of my youth) and the beginning (of middle age) is that for the first time… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“When you reach your middle age, you see a train far away and shortly after you watch that train passing rapidly in… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“To feel, and think, and learn—learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense. And most people seem… — Jane Fletcher Geniesse Copy Share Image
“They say the eyes are the first thing to go”—he glances meaningfully at the reading glasses—“but I say it’s curiosity. People hit… — Jennifer Haigh Copy Share Image
“Deception is the natural defence of the weak against the strong, and the South used it for many years against its conquerors;… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“ Sonnet I am no stranger in the house of pain; I am familiar with its every part, From the low stile,… — Robert Nathan Copy Share Image
From youth to middle, and often to past middle, age, most men are apt to be too closely engaged in the struggle… — Richard A. Proctor Copy Share Image
“Now Janie ordered a drink and glanced at the bar menu, choosing the goat curry because she'd never had it before. "You… — Sharon Guskin 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
Clyde Phillip Wachsberger's delightful memoir about tending beds of flowers as compensation for a lonely middle age only to find unexpected romance… — Philip Gambone 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
Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
“... you are never so smart again in a language learned in middle age nor so romantic, brave or kind.” — Garrison Keillor 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
Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
Middle age is when you get in the car and immediately change the radio station. — Patricia Penton Leimbach Copy Share Image
“The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.” — Núria Añó Copy Share Image
“Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.” — William Feather Copy Share Image
