Middle Age Quotes

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life, Age, Morning

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
Bill Vaughan

Age, Youth, Year

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
Margaret Mead

Work, Age, Learning

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
Ogden Nash

Age, Hope, Home

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Age, Women, Fear

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Francis Bacon

Age, Men, Young

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
Orson Welles

Life, Age, Society

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
William Feather

Change, Age, Nice

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
Gore Vidal

Age, Sex, Place

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
William Feather

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
Andre Gide

Age, Honor, Middle

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Franklin P. Adams

Age, Young, Old

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
Mason Cooley

Age, Middle, Loves

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
Mason Cooley

Age, Lost, Youth

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
Bob Hope

Age, Around, Show

Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.
Jerry Saltz

Age, Youth, Artist

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'
Sydney J. Harris

Life, Age, Time

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
Bennett Cerf

Age, Old, Classmates

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
Ogden Nash

Age, Someone, Person

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

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Don Marquis

Age, Time, Good

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
Harold Coffin

Age, Nature, Time

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
Doris Day

Age, Youth, Middle

I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.
Julie Burchill

Age, Time, Women

As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.
Julie Burchill

Age, Great, Teen

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
A. N. Wilson

Age, Power, Strength

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.
J. G. Ballard

Change, Age, Means

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
Gail Sheehy

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.
Lillian Gordy Carter

Age, Romantic, Rather

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and 'how well you look'.
Nelson Rockefeller

Life, Age, Youth

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