Best Middle Age Sayings
148 Middle Age quotes by 118 unique authors
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Middle age ends and senescence begins, the day your descendant's outnumber your friends.
— Ogden Nash
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Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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There was a good deal to be said, Hilary decided, for middle age and infirmity. The years in which one demanded much of life were…
— Elizabeth Goudge
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I like my buddies from west Texas. I liked them when I was young, I liked them then I was middle-age, I liked them before…
— George W. Bush
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The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a…
— Alexander Smith
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You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up.
— Bob Hope
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Middle age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired.
— Laurence J. Peter
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Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.
— Laurence J. Peter
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Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
— Laurence J. Peter
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It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.
— Cyril Connolly
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Fear comes with middle age.
— Lillian Hellman
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I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful, and then with…
— Jeffrey Tate
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In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in middle age that…
— P.D. James
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Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which…
— John Mortimer
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Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest.
— John Keble
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Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth; there are also corresponding stages in the growth of wisdom in him.
— Sathya Sai Baba
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I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming up behind me.…
— Yo-Yo Ma
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The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never…
— Orson Welles
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Beautiful city! . . . spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . .…
— Matthew Arnold
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The middle age of buggers is not to be contemplated without horror.
— E. M. Forster
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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
— Andre Gide
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Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
— Mason Cooley
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Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
— Mason Cooley
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The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
— Doris Day
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