Words matter. These are the best Middle Age Quotes from famous people such as Barry Humphries, Margaret Mead, Zoe Ball, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Julie Burchill, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
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.
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!
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.
There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and ‘how well you look’.
Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you.
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.
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
There’s no socially acceptable middle age.
Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.
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.
‘Housewives’ has shone a light on women of middle age, that you’re not out of the game, you’re not old, you’re not put out to pasture… You’re lively, you’re doing things, you’re aggressive, you’re making money, you’re recreating yourself.
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ‘Why not?’ and the other, ‘Why bother?’
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young.
Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
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.
Middle Age – later than you think and sooner than you expect.
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it.
Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
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.
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.’
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young.
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.
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.’
Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
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.
Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.
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.
We in middle age require adventure.
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.
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ‘Why not?’ and the other, ‘Why bother?’
Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
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.
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.
Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you.
Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
You find yourself approaching middle age, playing another scuzzy rock club.
Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it.
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
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.
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
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.
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.
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
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