Quotes about Middle Age

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?' Votes: 4

I'm self-deprecating, but I'm an artist, too. I have to write new songs to chronicle stuff for myself. I write a song like 'Middle Age' or 'Responsibility' or 'I Just Work Here,' and it's about how bleak life can be. But it's real. Votes: 4

In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud. Votes: 3

Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect. Votes: 3

Middle Age, a restful, welcome break from real life, brings some unique opportunities. Votes: 3

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages. Votes: 3

The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs. Votes: 3

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway. Votes: 3

During the Middle Ages, Jews were members of a semi-independent polity within a larger polity. Votes: 3

The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages. Votes: 3

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. Votes: 3

It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages. Votes: 3

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. Votes: 3

I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts. Votes: 3

Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive. Votes: 3

If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication. Votes: 3

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed. Votes: 3

I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades. Votes: 3

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too. Votes: 3

When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation...they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages. Votes: 3

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. Votes: 3

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages. Votes: 3

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries. Votes: 3

Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride! Votes: 3

Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing. Votes: 3

The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages, only then will Israel be calm for the next 40 years. Votes: 3

The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof. Votes: 3

Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants. Votes: 3

Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished. Votes: 3

What I want to know is, in the Middle Ages, did they do anything for Housemaid's Knee? What did they put in their hot baths after jousting? Votes: 3

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest. Votes: 3

I definitely have a kind of Stockholm Syndrome for superhero movies because it's very clear that's the era we're in. It's like Christianity in the Middle Ages. Votes: 3

In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I haven't actually counted the heads. Votes: 3

I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry knowledge from one monastery to the next monastery. Votes: 3

Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles. Votes: 3

At the end of the Middle Ages, nobody would ever have expected the monasteries to vanish from the scene within a generation - yet they did. Change does happen. Votes: 3

When learning was monopolized by the monks in the Middle Ages, people specialized only in warfare and statecraft. And even these were not altogether free from the scholastic influence. Votes: 3

Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages. Votes: 3

Clearly, imagining cannot be expected to mean exactly the same thing today as it did in the Middle Ages or antiquity. For one thing, Aristotle and Aquinas never watched television. Votes: 3

Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past. Votes: 3

Beautiful city! . . . spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . . . her ineffable charm. . . . Adorable dreamer, whose heart has been so romantic! Votes: 3

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany. Votes: 3

The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate. Votes: 3

The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate. Votes: 3

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages. Votes: 3

The Egyptians had the locusts and in the Middle Ages there was the Black Death with the rats, but tourists are the plague of our century and we'll not survive this one. Votes: 3

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church. Votes: 3

In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity. Votes: 3

Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that can redeem religion, and the clerics will never forgive us for that. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Like the priestly cult of the Middle Ages, the modern priestly cult of "scientific" psychotherapists exist overwhelmingly to stultify or blunt a too-acute insight into the powers benumbed in our personalities by our prevailing culture. Votes: 3

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious. Votes: 3

In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames. Votes: 3

We often forget that Spain controlled big parts of Europe, in Italy and the Netherlands. In the Middle Ages, Spain and Portugal were so powerful that they signed a set of treaties literally dividing up the globe between them. Votes: 3

Middle Age connotes fat, cancer, bad musical taste, and death. It conjures up a commuter in the sixties going to a Neil Simon play in Sansabelt pants, a knit vest, balding, belly sagging - and then there's the men. Votes: 3

We reserve the term 'genius' for people who are creative, who are innovators, who think in ways that are entirely new. In the Middle Ages, the term 'genius' was reserved for people with the best memories. That is telling. Votes: 3

The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat. Votes: 3

During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful, illuminations help make the text unforgettable. It's unfortunate that we've lost the art of illumination. Votes: 3

Fear accomplishes much in love. The husband of the Middle Ages was loved by his wife for his very severity. The bride of William the Conqueror, having been beaten by him, recognized him by this token for her lord and husband Votes: 3

Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages. Votes: 3

Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that goes by without violent rioting of one kind or another. They happen so frequently that they are almost part of London's texture. Votes: 3

And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion. Votes: 3

There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages. Votes: 3

For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery. Votes: 3

Any beings advanced enough to traverse interstellar distances are at least a thousand years beyond our technical level. Spending gobs of time examining our missiles is equivalent to sending the Air Force back to the Middle Ages and insisting they examine the chain mail factories. Votes: 3

The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times. Votes: 3

It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance that antique temples, Roman basilicas, and even the cathedrals of the Middle Ages are not the works of single personalities but creations of entire epochs. Votes: 3

We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety. Votes: 3

Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to pay for musicians. The kings and queens had musicians in the castles, and that developed into symphony orchestras and what we call "Classical music" now. Votes: 3

By May, 1st, 1937, there should not be one single church left within the borders of Soviet Russia, and the idea of God will have been banished from the Soviet Union as a remnant of the Middle Ages, which has been used for the purpose of oppressing the working classes. Votes: 3

In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega--a fellow you hired to walk in front of you at night with a lit lantern, showing you the way, scaring off thieves and demons, bringing you confidence and protection through the dark streets. Votes: 3

Claude Debussy defined the guitar as an expressive harpsicord. I believe that is the best definition ever given of the Spanish guitar. This phrase is the starting point for my Concierto de Aranjuez Our guitar is the only survivor of the rich and anarchic instrumental wildlife of the Middle Ages. Votes: 3

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age. Votes: 2

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. Votes: 2

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly. Votes: 2

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. Votes: 2

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and 'how well you look'. Votes: 2

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. Votes: 2

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. Votes: 2

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. Votes: 2

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. Votes: 2

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons. Votes: 2

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you. Votes: 2

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. Votes: 2

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. Votes: 2

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young. Votes: 2

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. Votes: 2

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. Votes: 2

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. Votes: 2

Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. Votes: 2

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed. Votes: 2

By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years. Votes: 2

Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who can't write their own language. Votes: 2

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. Votes: 2

Fear comes with middle age. Votes: 0

We in middle age require adventure. Votes: 0

God, middle age is an unending insult. Votes: 0

Middle age, my boy. No memory at all. Votes: 0

Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age. Votes: 0

Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it. Votes: 0

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera. Votes: 0

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity. Votes: 0

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age. Votes: 0

After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete. Votes: 0

Motorcycle adventures are the perfect antidote to middle age. Votes: 0

A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing. Votes: 0

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. Votes: 0

In middle age, going naked contributes little to public enjoyment. Votes: 0

Middle age is when the best exercise is one of discretion. Votes: 0

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms. Votes: 0

The middle age of buggers is not to be contemplated without horror. Votes: 0

You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution Votes: 0

It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age. Votes: 0

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth. Votes: 0

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death. Votes: 0

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does. Votes: 0

Middle age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired. Votes: 0

Middle age is when, whenever you go on holiday, you pack a sweater. Votes: 0

Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do. Votes: 0

Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning. Votes: 0

Middle age ends and senescence begins, the day your descendant's outnumber your friends. Votes: 0

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age. Votes: 0

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places. Votes: 0

I'm the woman who used to think that middle-age spread was a cocktail dip. Votes: 0

Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age. Votes: 0

You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up. Votes: 0

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look". Votes: 0

I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures. Votes: 0

Middle age is when you get in the car and immediately change the radio station. Votes: 0

Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age. Votes: 0

I do not like to see men walk away from women in late middle age. Votes: 0

The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'. Votes: 0

it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point. Votes: 0

Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife. Votes: 0

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. Votes: 0

Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one. Votes: 0

Middle -age is the time of life, that a man first notices - in his wife. Votes: 0

In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise. Votes: 0

My age fallen away like white swaddling Floats in the middle distance, becomes An inhabited cloud. Votes: 0

Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom. Votes: 0

Middle age is when you find out where the action is so you can go someplace else. Votes: 0

In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption. Votes: 0

Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. Votes: 0

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places. Votes: 0

Women or mothers in middle-age or mid-career have valuable life experience and may offer an untapped recruitment pool. Votes: 0

Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you. Votes: 0

Now, in my middle age, about nineteen in the head I'd say, I am rowing, I am rowing.... Votes: 0

He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four. Votes: 0

At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age. Votes: 0

Progressive policies implemented since the early 1900s launched America into the modern age and created a vibrant middle class. Votes: 0

Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring. Votes: 0

Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon. Votes: 0

I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age. Votes: 0

You know you've reached middle age when you're cautioned to slow down by your doctor, instead of by the police. Votes: 0

And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta? Votes: 0

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age. Votes: 0

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. Votes: 0

In middle age I've begun to embrace stress reducing behaviors. Just in doing yoga, for example, my health has improved dramatically. Votes: 0

We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality. Votes: 0

Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age. Votes: 0

I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case. Votes: 0

Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock. Votes: 0

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young. Votes: 0

I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story. Votes: 0

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections. Votes: 0

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty. Votes: 0

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. Votes: 0

Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness. Votes: 0

It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator. Votes: 0

Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest. Votes: 0

I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age. Votes: 0

I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31. I didn't sleep on people's couches. Votes: 0

One quintessential moment in time is when you're 22, when you graduate college. And then another quintessential time is as a middle-age man. That's the convergence. Votes: 0

I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion. Votes: 0

Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth; there are also corresponding stages in the growth of wisdom in him. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families. Votes: 0

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age. Votes: 0

The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child. Votes: 0

In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made Votes: 0

Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines. Votes: 0

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego. Votes: 0

The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature middle age, soured, cynical, unproductive. Votes: 0

Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones. Votes: 0

Maybe marriages are best in middle age. When all the nonsense falls away and you realize you have to love one another because you're going to die anyway. Votes: 0

The trouble is, old age is not interesting until one gets there. It's a foreign country with an unknown language to the young and even to the middle-aged. Votes: 0

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life. Votes: 0

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. Votes: 0

The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series. Votes: 0

But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age. Votes: 0

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life. Votes: 0

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter. Votes: 0

One of the great sadnesses of my life, as I take stock at middle age, is the sense that the adventure largely ended by the time I was twenty-five. Votes: 0

[On middle age:] ... the very real possibility for you of growing fat as you near death and thus being seen by everyone while you are both DEAD AND FAT ... Votes: 0

American nuclear reactors are well into middle age. The median age of an operating reactor in the U.S. is 34 years, placing start-up in midst of the Carter administration. Votes: 0

Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing. Votes: 0

When I was a kid I respected authority, then as a teenager I gave none; in middle age I expected it; now in old age I live by the word. Votes: 0

From when you are young, through middle age, you must grow to the point that you glow, so that your light lets people feel the blessings, the virtues, and the happiness. Votes: 0

To the Latin, cynicism and middle age are synonymous. Look at our politicians - they move through their careers from left to center to right, like the hands of a clock. Votes: 0

From middle age on, there's nothing more vital to your health and weight control than building lean muscle mass, and the only way that happens is with weight training and exercise. Votes: 0

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change. Votes: 0

When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part. Votes: 0

belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager vitality postpone the unenterprising cautions and timidities of middle age. Votes: 0

I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age, struggling on a book around a full-time job and family. Votes: 0

One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like allowing friends to drift away through simple neglect. Votes: 0

This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming up behind me. So it's very much finding my own place. Votes: 0

The problem with middle age, at least when it comes to modeling, is you seldom see a model who is past 27, 28. If they use anyone older, then it becomes automatically a 'personality' story. Votes: 0

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age. Votes: 0

In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on. Votes: 0

The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age. Votes: 0

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. Votes: 0

I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful, and then with middle age, something happens and you go into the wilderness. Votes: 0

Identifying as a Pagan, feminist, Witch, and anarchist is possibly a way to alarm great segments of the general public, but at least it keeps me from sinking into a boring and respectable middle age. Votes: 0

When you approach middle age, lots of stuff happens. Your body is aging, you're watching people around you get sick, you're watching people die, your mortality becomes very present at that point in your life. Votes: 0