Middle-aged Quotes

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

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.

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

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

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

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

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.

You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.

Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.