Middle Age Quotes

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

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

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

I just have to live my life knowing that there could be a good chance that I might die in middle age.

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

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

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and ‘how well you look’.

When I’m playing ‘Rock Band,’ I’m like, ‘Man, someday, later on in life when I’m a famous rock star…’ Which gets a little harder to convince myself of as I reach middle age, but it still happens a lot.

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.

Not surprisingly, my parents’ generation did everything they could to make life easier for their own children. Was that good for us? I wonder. It certainly didn’t do us any good from a cultural point of view. I’m struck by how few boomers have embraced adult culture in middle age.

There’s no socially acceptable middle age.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

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.

Middle Age – later than you think and sooner than you expect.

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.

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.

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

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

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.

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

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

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.

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

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

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

The three ages of man: youth, middle age and ‘my word you do look well’.

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

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

Not surprisingly, my parents’ generation did everything they could to make life easier for their own children. Was that good for us? I wonder. It certainly didn’t do us any good from a cultural point of view. I’m struck by how few boomers have embraced adult culture in middle age.

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.

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

At 35 women are at the bottom level of middle age but we can look like we are absolutely in our prime. Even if you’re badly out of shape, you can put yourself in good shape in two years, maximum.

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.

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.

We in middle age require adventure.

I’m not very religious, but having reached middle age I rather enjoy the quiet and the contemplation of spending an hour in an old building.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it.

I’m not very religious, but having reached middle age I rather enjoy the quiet and the contemplation of spending an hour in an old building.

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

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

Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.

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

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.

It’s kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on a marriage and a story of two people past middle age.

There’s to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I’m not sure who’s going to play me. I haven’t got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.

Middle Age – later than you think and sooner than you expect.

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.

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.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it.

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.

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.

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.

I grew up in the South, and our way of dealing with each other was teasing, ribbing, making fun and scrapping in the street. Criticism doesn’t bother me so much. It actually made me, when I was younger, more aggressive. But you get into middle age, and you lose interest in that stuff. It’s not serious.

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.

I grew up in the South, and our way of dealing with each other was teasing, ribbing, making fun and scrapping in the street. Criticism doesn’t bother me so much. It actually made me, when I was younger, more aggressive. But you get into middle age, and you lose interest in that stuff. It’s not serious.

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.

I was well into middle age when one of my children, then in the second grade, was found to be dyslexic. I had never known the name for it, but I recognized immediately that the symptoms were also mine.

Although there are countless tangents that a career in the building arts can take, it is nonetheless most unusual for a major architectural practice to emerge once a firm’s principals are well into what is loosely called middle age.

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.

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

I can feel middle age approaching, but I reckon the trick is to ignore all the signs. I’m lucky in that I’ve always looked half the age I am. So the way I see it is that I’m still in my twenties!

In my mind, if you went back to the Middle Ages, in Italy they’d be speaking Middle Age Italian. And at that point, it would obviously be indecipherable for us, but for the people of that time, it was just normal talking.

With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there’s a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge’s plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, ‘natural history.’

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.

With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there’s a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge’s plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, ‘natural history.’

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.

In my middle age I seem to love a bit of pastoral telly: ‘Countryfile,’ ‘Springwatch.’ I love watching people in nature. It’s a moment of calm, it’s a moment of meditation.

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

As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.

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.

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

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.

In ‘The Big Chill,’ those characters are in middle age, thinking, ‘Oh, God, I’ve turned into my parents. I’ve failed.’ And in ‘Beside Still Waters,’ we’re showing the struggles of people who actually want to be like their parents and feel they can’t live up to their heights.

Now, past middle age, with so many books written I still care about and only a few still in print, I know the feeling of being overlooked.

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

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.

I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.

As any of us approaches middle age, we inevitably come up against our limitations: the realization that certain dearly-held fantasies may not be realized; that circumstances have thwarted us; that even with intention and will we may not be able to set our ship back on the course we’d planned.

You find yourself approaching middle age, playing another scuzzy rock club.

Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

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

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

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.

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

There’s to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I’m not sure who’s going to play me. I haven’t got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.