Best Middle Age Sayings

148 Middle Age quotes by 118 unique authors

Middle age ends and senescence begins, the day your descendant's outnumber your friends. — Ogden Nash
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
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
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
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
You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up. — Bob Hope
Middle age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired. — Laurence J. Peter
Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. — Laurence J. Peter
Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one. — Laurence J. Peter
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
Fear comes with middle age. — Lillian Hellman
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Beautiful city! . . . spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . .… — Matthew Arnold
The middle age of buggers is not to be contemplated without horror. — E. M. Forster
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. — Andre Gide
Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth. — Mason Cooley
Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera. — Mason Cooley
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. — Doris Day

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