Middle Life Quotes

17 quotes by 16 authors

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament. — Frank Moore Colby
Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years… — Carolyn Wells
Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively. — Gene Tunney
It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age. — Mary Roberts Rinehart
In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart. — Elwyn Brooks White
Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had… — Catherine Helen Spence
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life… — P.G. Wodehouse
Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are… — Woodrow Wilson
The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her… — Edith Wharton
As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we… — Anne Rice
It won't work,' Mr. Bentley continued, sipping his tea. 'No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be… — Ray Bradbury
Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal. — George Orwell
Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest. — Thomas Huxley
YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age. But yesterday I should have thought me blest To stand… — Ambrose Bierce
Im just a little bit caught in the middle. Life is a maze and love is a riddle. — Lenka

Who Wrote These Middle Life Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 17 Middle Life Quotes as follows: