Best Middle Age Quotes
148 Middle Age quotes by 118 unique authors
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Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the…
— A. N. Wilson
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Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.
— Laurence J. Peter
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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely…
— Edward Hoagland
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I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.
— Roddy Doyle
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Dear Lord, who made the face of me not all that I would have it be, not really homely, only plain, but strong and patient…
— Unknown Author
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I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion.
— Stephen Spender
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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle…
— Anne Bradstreet
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A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work; but whereas the composer and the painter…
— Harry S. Broudy
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None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often…
— Anne Tyler
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If you can't be pretty, you have to learn to make yourself attractive. I found that all the pretty girls I went to high school…
— Iris Apfel
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With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle…
— Dani Shapiro
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A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.
— Unknown Author
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Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
— Richard Armour
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Life is not stationary. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years all tick away at the same clip for everyone. No age-group can be…
— Hugh W. Pinnock
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..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the bible (I read…
— Peter Drucker
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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
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On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quench'd the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth: Forward…
— Walter Scott
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When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old.…
— Arthur Rubinstein
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From when you are young, through middle age, you must grow to the point that you glow, so that your light lets people feel the…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about the people who…
— Calvin Trillin
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Clyde Phillip Wachsberger's delightful memoir about tending beds of flowers as compensation for a lonely middle age only to find unexpected romance along the way…
— Unknown Author
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The first indication of menopause is a broken thermostat. It's either that or your weight. In any case, if you don't do something, you could…
— Dorothea Benton Frank
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There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look".
— Nelson Rockefeller
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I do not like to see men walk away from women in late middle age.
— Peter D. Kramer
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