Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
“It's said, after all, that people reach middle age the day they realize they're never going to read Remembrance of Things Past.” — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
To the Latin, cynicism and middle age are synonymous. Look at our politicians - they move through their careers from left to… — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
“I concentrate on Anna, noting the carefully put-together earth-toned outfit—could it be that all women of a certain age are assigned to… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age,… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of middle age is find out that one WAS right,and that one was much righter than one knew… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a feeling there is no ideal situation, unless she could go back in time and be 22 again. I think… — Amanda Peet Copy Share Image
“We were not mad youngsters, but love is not confined to the young. Indeed, true love is a phenomenon of middle age,… — Dave Duncan Copy Share Image
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the… — Eleanor Roosevelt 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
Mindfulness is the key to everything, and this is especially true when one approaches the cultural portal known as "middle age." This… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
“We may say that all ages are dangerous to all people, in this dangerous life we live. But the thirties are a… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
“All through my sixties I felt I was still within hailing distance of middle age, not safe on its shores, perhaps, but… — Diana Athill 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
One of the greatest titles we can have is old friend. We never appreciate how important old friends are until we are… — Grant Fairley Copy Share Image
“I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
The truth about God is that He exists. He always existed. God existed before He created things. He is still creating things.… — Babloo Copy Share Image
But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
The first indication of menopause is a broken thermostat. It's either that or your weight. In any case, if you don't do… — Dorothea Benton Frank Copy Share Image
Now, past middle age, with so many books written I still care about and only a few still in print, I know… — Richard Elman Copy Share Image
Women or mothers in middle age or mid career have valuable life experience and may offer an untapped recruitment pool. — Hazel Blears 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
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“How can so many things become a bore by middle age — philosophy, radicalism, and other fast foods — but heartbreak keeps its sting?” — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quench'd the open truth And fiery vehemence… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality. — Alec-Tweedie Copy Share Image
It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“There are only three kinds of Irishmen who can't understand women. Young men, old men and men of middle age.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Middle age is such a low point for well-being; it's at the bottom of a U-shaped curve that shows greater happiness among… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
There are a lot of single, balding, middle age men out there who do not know how lucky they are that they… — KM II Copy Share Image
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other,… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
You know you've reached middle age when you're cautioned to slow down by your doctor, instead of by the police. — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
“After all, when one approaches Middle Age…" "Middle Age? Has anyone ever boxed your ears Miss Thane?" "No, never," said Miss Thane,… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
“Middle-age should be shot. Things about it gall me. First, that those younger despise the thought of getting old, and, hence, me.… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
