Middle Life Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.
— Frank Moore Colby
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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
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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
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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
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It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.
— George Orwell
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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
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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
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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: