Top 1200 Middle Age Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you.

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

When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we weren't that wrong. Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young erode. We end up all belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself.

Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.

I feel as though going into middle age really suits me.

The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has something new to teach us. The harvest of youth is achievement; the harvest of middle-age is perspective; the harvest of age is wisdom; the harvest of life is serenity.

I do not like to see men walk away from women in late middle age.

He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four.

I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.

At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.

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

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

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

But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

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

Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.

Middle age is when you go to bed at night and hope you feel better in the morning. Old age is when you go to bed at night and hope you wake up in the morning.

Middle -age is the time of life, that a man first notices - in his wife.

In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.

I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case.

The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'.

Middle age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired.

In middle age, going naked contributes little to public enjoyment.

Middle age is when you find out where the action is so you can go someplace else.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.

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.

Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.

Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorrow have I made acquaintance from age to age, and from age to age evil shall I do, and sorrow shall I know till my redemption comes.

Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.

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

You know you've reached middle age when you're cautioned to slow down by your doctor, instead of by the police.

In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise.

You find yourself approaching middle age, playing another scuzzy rock club.

I don't look my age, I don't feel my age and I don't act my age. To me age is just a number.

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

Middle Age, a restful, welcome break from real life, brings some unique opportunities.

And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?

Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan, and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age, I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure, more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

To me, the term 'middle-class' connotes a safe, comfortable, middle-of-the road policy. Above all, our language is 'middle-class' in the middle of our road. To drive it to one side or the other or even off the road, is the noblest task of the future.

I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.

I'm the woman who used to think that middle-age spread was a cocktail dip.

I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures.

Middle age is when you get in the car and immediately change the radio station.

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

...I don't understand this gap you see between us, but can't you meet me somewhere in the middle?" "The middle of what?" "I don't know, the middle of tomorrow and forever, the middle of life and death, the middle of normal and paranormal. Where we've always been." I bit my lip, nodding against his forehead. "There's a place for us there, right?" "Always." He put his lips to mine, sealing our own little spot in the world. Together.

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.

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.

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

I just have to live my life knowing that there could be a good chance that I might die in middle age.

I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America in the middle of the last century.

The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.

My age fallen away like white swaddling Floats in the middle distance, becomes An inhabited cloud.

I'm a middle-bracket person with a middle-bracket spouse / And we live together gaily in a middle-bracket house. / We've a fair-to-middlin' family; we take the middle view; / So we're manna sent from heaven to internal revenue.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up.

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