I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men. — Bob Hoskins Copy Share Image
“As I approach mid-life, I feel like the old boot that lands on Mayfair after an eight-hour game of Monopoly.” — Fennel Hudson Copy Share Image
It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young. — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
“His interest lay wholly in the crime—swooning middle-aged ladies did not interest him at all.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“He got out in a middle-aged kind of way, locked the car, and ambled along.” — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life. — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
You will find in me a middle aged man with a career behind me sufficiently brilliant to enable me to talk about… — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
The term middle-aged, invented by Descartes, comes from the Latin, medeus, meaning 'not really old' and ageis, meaning 'if you look at… — Marilyn Suzanne Miller Copy Share Image
I am a struggling writer. A middle-aged man with two little kids and I'm just trying to earn a living. So buy… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
“It was surprisingly crowded, a bunch of middle-aged people, mostly women, moving enthusiastically, if a bit awkwardly, to Prince’s “Little Red Corvette,”… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
I couldn't see much point in tying myself down to a middle-aged woman with four children, even though the woman was my… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
In some contexts in Pakistan maybe a beard is negative. It depends. And in some contexts in America maybe a beard is… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“He rests his head against the mirror and exhales. In the years he was with Emma he sometimes wondered idly what it… — Anonymous 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
Moral crusade: Public activity undertaken by middle-aged men who are cheating on their wives or diddling little boys. Moral crusades are particularly… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
When I see a fan coming over, I can't help but make an assumption about what they want to talk about. A… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient,… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
“But a risk-free life wasn't much of a life, really, and if she was going to change, she might as well start… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Nail polish or false eyelashes isn't politics. If you have good politics, what you wear is irrelevant. I don't take dictation from… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
“When it is a question of an irate middle-aged lady, there is only one thing to be done - listen to her.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Most of the plays in Marathi theatre are for the middle aged or are family dramas. — Mahesh Manjrekar Copy Share Image
“It's true that when you read YA you rarely have to read about middle-aged men having affairs. Personally I consider that a… — Erin Bow Copy Share Image
Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. — Hervey Allen 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
“In the spring, a middle-aged man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of gardening.” — Richard Martinus Copy Share Image
“In Paris, women were not considered interesting until they were middle-aged. The Mist of Montmartre” — Peggy Kopman-Owens Copy Share Image
Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music. — Derek Bailey Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to be a middle aged centerfold, I just want to look at myself naked and not be disgusted. — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
You can't change old people. Unlike middle-aged people, they do what they want. — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
A middle-aged cat will often play as unreservedly as a kitten, though he knows perfectly well it is only a game. — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television, and yet they are absolutely invisible. — Samantha Bond Copy Share Image
Golf is the only opportunity that middle-aged WASPs have to dress up like a pimp. — Kinky Friedman 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
