Famous Quotes - Tags - Middle Age

  • After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete. More
  • Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to “that attractive young woman standing next... More
  • At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials. More
  • At last now you can be
    What the old cannot recall
    And the young long for in... More
  • By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few... More
  • Every man over forty is a scoundrel. More
  • Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used... More
  • Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth... More
  • From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life. More
  • Half of my life is gone, and I have let
    The years slip from me and have not fulfilled
    The... More
  • half-way up the hill, I see the Past
    Lying beneath me with its sounds and sights,—
    A... More
  • He had never learned to live without delight. And he would have to learn to, just as, in a... More
  • He has his health, and ampler strength indeed
    Than most have of his age. More
  • I am a wise fellow, and, which is more, an officer; and, which is more, a householder; and, which... More
  • I am continually amazed at how old young has become. Didn’t we, like our grandchildren, begin... More
  • I am too old to fawn upon a nurse,
    Too far in years to be a pupil now. More
  • I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions... More
  • I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead... More
  • I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience... More
  • If men at forty will be painting lakes
    The ephemeral blues must merge for them in... More
  • In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn... More
  • In middle age, going naked contributes little to public enjoyment. More
  • In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest... More
  • In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for... More
  • Lear. How old art thou?
    Kent. Not so young, sir, to love a woman for singing, nor so old to... More
  • Men at forty
    Learn to close softly
    The doors to rooms they will not be
    Coming back to. More
  • Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation. More
  • Middle age is a period when a man, for the first time, may be plumbing his “feminine”... More
  • Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good... More
  • Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of... More
  • Middle-aged adolescents are a libel on the real thing. More
  • Midway along the journey of our life [Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita] I woke to find myself... More
  • Of all the barbarous middle ages, that
    Which is most barbarous is the middle age
    Of man!... More
  • One of the few graces of getting old—and God knows there are few graces—is that if you’ve... More
  • People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not... More
  • She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years. More
  • Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age. More
  • Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera. More
  • Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay; and, too... More
  • The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like... More
  • The misery of the middle-aged woman is a grey and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live... More
  • The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty.... The young are slaves to dreams;... More
  • The time passes so quickly during these full and active middle years that most people arrive at... More
  • The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and... More
  • The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or... More
  • These are the tranquilized Fifties,
    and I am forty. Ought I to regret my seedtime? More
  • To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that... More
  • We live a pleasant life shopping at the Food Shoppe . . . taking the kids to the Weinery-Beanery,... More
  • When women reach the age of maturity, Mother Nature sometimes overworks their frustration to the... More
  • Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are... More
  • You and I are past our dancing days. More
  • You are truly the generation in the middle! You have at once aging parents as well as maturing... More
  • Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the... More

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