We should, if possible, prove a teacher to posterity, instead of being the pupil of by-gone generations. More shall come after us… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
On the downside, to paraphrase Thom Yorke talking about the music business, we're still having to deal with the stench of the… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I'm like a middle-aged person; when my friends go on about modern bands, I don't know what they are talking about. I'm… — Georgia May Jagger Copy Share Image
The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast. — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
“you're a terrible liar. sarah never mentioned me, because there's nothing to say. when did that happen. when did the old rock-climbing,… — Lisa Verge Higgins Copy Share Image
A new study suggests that middle-aged adults who go on periodic drinking binges may face a heightened risk of dementia later on… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
That's America for you - a red herring culture, always scared of the wrong things. The fact is, there are a lot… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men. — Bob Hoskins Copy Share Image
There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins; old women in black dancing in a… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
When Britney shaves off all her hair and beats paparazzi with umbrellas - that's what celebrities are supposed to do. They're not… — Moby Copy Share Image
All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I remember the fact that milk was delivered every day by a milkman. In summer, my mother would make what now seem… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Budapest in late May is a city of lilacs. The sweet, languid, rather sleepy smell of lilacs wafts everywhere. And it is… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middle-class men and woman who are stuck in their… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have become that middle-aged woman who listens to the 'Hamilton' soundtrack in my kitchen. — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
It is difficult for a statesman who still has a political future to reveal everything that he knows: and in a profession… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Being middle-aged is about realising that you've lived most of your life. You don't have as much time in front of you… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
“Tallgarth Manor, Stratfield Turgis, Hampshire. 2003 Gil, as she was now known to her colleagues had returned to the family home, not… — J. Jackson Bentley Copy Share Image
I love being middle-aged in general. I'm more at peace with myself now. I still have tormented times, but they are few… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
