Middle-aged Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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