Middle-aged Quotes
Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
Walter Lippmann
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
Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.
Mike Myers
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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.
Kate Smith
No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
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.
Theodore Roosevelt
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
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.
John Updike
People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
Walter Lippmann
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
C. S. Lewis
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.
Aldrich Ames
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
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
Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats.
Brad Bird
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.
Diane Keaton
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
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde
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
You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.
Andrew Denton
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.
Alice Cooper
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.
Jessamyn West