A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
Aldous Huxley

Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.
Martha Beck

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
Kin Hubbard

Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.
Mike Myers

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.
Herbert Gold

I am a struggling writer. A middle-aged man with two little kids and I'm just trying to earn a living. So buy this book - or my kids will have to go to foster care.
Christopher Darden

I don't have any children, I have four middle-aged people.
Dick Van Dyke

I dress up as a middle-aged prostitute and do a game show.
Paul O'Grady

I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.
Jane Rule

I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
Sting

I'm not always in that good with middle-aged heterosexual men.
Kathy Griffin

I'm officially middle-aged. I don't need drugs anymore, thank God. I can get the same effect just by standing up real fast.
Jonathan Katz

I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that's become apparent in recent years.
Anthony Holden

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
John Ciardi

Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
Walter Lippmann

Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.
Kate Smith

My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons.
Joseph Barbera

No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott-Maxwell

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 of his troubles.
Don Marquis

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
Hervey Allen