Middle Age Quotes
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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
Doris Day -
Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution.
Abraham Lincoln -
At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.
Charles Busch -
I really think that people have to think safety; taking risks for higher yield is a bad idea once you're in late or latish middle age.
Paul Krugman -
Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.
Gerald Brenan -
I’m 59 and people call me middle aged. How many 118 year old men do you know?
Barry Cryer -
Everyone has this notion of the Middle Ages - certainly the early Middle Ages - as being this very superstitious era. I think that all eras are superstitious. We all have our magical thinking.
Nicola Griffith
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I don’t know if men go bonkers in middle age. I’m bonkers half the time anyway, so I didn’t notice much.
Nicholas Parsons -
She used to think of it vaguely as “We don’t get along,” but it wasn’t even that. There were no clashes or quarrels between them, no question of infidelity. He certainly wasn’t the type for an affair, and at forty-eight, her hair graying and her figure gone, she had resigned herself to weary middle age. It was just that together, bleakly confronted with each other, they experienced a vast and hopeless boredom.
Bel Kaufman -
Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.
Elliot Paul