“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
You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard. — Andrew Denton Copy Share Image
All I have is me. Over-worked, under-appreciated, middle-aged, and shriveled up. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
People will say, 'Seventy isn't old, it's middle-aged,' and I think, middle of what - 140? — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
I'm concerned, as I guess all middle-aged people are, about the younger generations' level of literacy. — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
I’m 59 and people call me middle aged. How many 118 year old men do you know? — Barry Cryer Copy Share Image
“For the middle-aged fan, what you play your music on can be at least as, if not more, important than what you… — Joe Kotarba Copy Share Image
For some reason I seem to be a massive hit with middle-aged women. I seriously don't know what it is. — John Barrowman 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
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
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
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
If a fan comes up and it is a middle-aged lady, it is probably from 'Prime'; if it is a younger girl,… — Bryan Greenberg Copy Share Image
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
In order for exercise to be effective and fun, especially for me as a middle aged woman, its about forgetting that youre… — Anna Richardson Copy Share Image
From the accounts of those who have had glimpses of Heaven in visions and revelations, it seems that we do mature somewhat… — David Berg Copy Share Image
“Young People! Do not gloat about your youth, because you have a long and treacherous path to negotiate before you reach the… — Irene Dische 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
“I’m crying all the time now. I cried all over the street when I left the Seattle Wobbly Hall. I cried listening… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
If she had been left alone she would have gone on, in her own way, enjoying herself thoroughly, until people found one… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with… — Frank O'Hara 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
Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“Like many men his age, he occupied a kind of limbo, not young enough to be the new face in the bars… — Michael Thomas Ford Copy Share Image
“For in the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I'm a middle aged businessman with chronic heart disease. I'm another teenaged suicide in a street that has no trees. — Ub40 Copy Share Image
I've always said golf can be a turn-off - all those middle-aged men in bad jumpers. I want to be a bit… — Ian Poulter Copy Share Image
My mom wouldn't let me buy clothes she didn't like, so I dressed like a middle-aged woman in high school. — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
The state of the industry is much like the state of politics. It's too middle-aged, white, and male. — Jessica Henwick Copy Share Image
Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as… — Diane Keaton Copy Share Image
I think it's hilarious when middle-aged white men try to take themselves seriously. It makes me laugh. — Chris Bauer Copy Share Image
Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women. — Kate Smith 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
“features that speak much more to what a middle-aged person desires for a parent than to what the parent does.” — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“To an unmoored, middle-aged man like myself, it was heart-breaking. That’s all right. I like to have my heart broken.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
