Middle Age Quotes

148 quotes by 127 authors

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. — Francis Bacon
The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or… — J. G. Ballard
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. — Franklin P. Adams
As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never… — Julie Burchill
I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are… — Julie Burchill
Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you. — Bennett Cerf
Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms. — Irvin S. Cobb
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Idea's won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervour,… — Alfred North Whitehead
Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon. — Richard Nelson Bolles
Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains?… — Agnes Repplier
Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you. — Robert Quillen
We in middle age require adventure. — Carolyn Heilbrun
Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too. — Mignon McLaughlin
He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four. — Dennis Price
Someone once said that middle age is like rereading a book that you haven't read since you were a callow youth. The first time around… — Eda LeShan
When I was a kid I respected authority, then as a teenager I gave none; in middle age I expected it; now in old age… — Horace Dyer
If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand, had erred in the opposite… — William Johnson Sollas
Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death. — Gerald Brenan
Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age. — Elliot Paul

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