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• 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… — 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,… — Julie Burchill
• I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age… — 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… — 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,… — 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… — Agnes Repplier
• Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you. — Robert Quillen

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