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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. — Doris Day
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. — William Feather
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?' — Sydney J. Harris
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. — Bob Hope
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty. — William Ralph Inge
I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case. — Hilary Mantel
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. — Don Marquis
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite… — Don Marquis
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the… — Margaret Mead
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age. — Jerry Saltz
The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity. — Gail Sheehy
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. — Bill Vaughan
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age. — Gore Vidal
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. — Orson Welles
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. — Oscar Wilde
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places. — A.C. Grayling
The worst thing about this particular end (of my youth) and the beginning (of middle age) is that for the first time in my life,… — Emily Giffin
When asked "What do we need to learn this for?" any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come… — David Sedaris
One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like… — Richard Russo
there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation… — Kurt Vonnegut
What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end.… — Rohinton Mistry
They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily… — Daphne du Maurier
When you're thirty you're old enough to know better,but still young enough to go ahead and do it. — Brigitte Bardot

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