Middle-aged Quotes

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well.

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.

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.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

On stage, I'm this figure, this actor, who does things that people aren't used to seeing and I relish in that reaction. In real life, though, I play golf, I shop and I walk around with no makeup on and my hair in a ponytail. I may not be the typical middle-aged Joe, but I'm closer to normal than you think.

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

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

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.

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

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.

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

You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.

Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.

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.

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

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

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

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.

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

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

Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.

I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.

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

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

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

I dress up as a middle-aged prostitute and do a game show.

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.