Middle Aged Quotes

On this page you will find all the quotes on the topic "Middle Aged". There are currently 211 quotes in our collection about Middle Aged. Discover the TOP 10 sayings about Middle Aged!
The best sayings about Middle Aged that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
  • I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young wife. The only thing I could do now for which my youth would be a truly notable feature would be to die. If I died now, I'd die young. Everything else, I'm doing middle-aged.

    Meghan Daum (2014). “The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion”, p.83, Macmillan
  • What I lack in style and craft, I can make up for in joy and enthusiasm. I like to be around people who are at ease so I like to think the 25-year-old would find me quite an easy-going late-middle-aged hippie.

    Hippie   Thinking   Years  
    "The Survivors: Robert Plant". Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. November 7, 2011.
  • A middle-aged cat will often play as unreservedly as a kitten, though he knows perfectly well it is only a game.

    Cat   Games   Play  
  • I couldn't imagine anything more horrifying than three middle aged men trying to pretend that 'Black Dog' is still significant. It's inappropriate.

    Dog   Men   Black  
  • All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to being noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous.

    Women   People   Focus  
    "An Uncommon Scold". Book by Abby Adams, 1989.
  • I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.

    Art   Writing   Thinking  
    "Dana Spiotta on living the creative life". Interview with Jacket Copy, latimesblogs.latimes.com. August 3, 2011.
  • The new supplants the old. Yet men's minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities and scholars in the social sciences is important. It is equally important to devise ways and means for aiding the middle-aged and old to reexamine hang-over unscientific doctrines and ideas in the light of recent discovery and research.

    Education   Truth   Mean  
  • I couldn't see much point in tying myself down to a middle-aged woman with four children, even though the woman was my wife and the children were my own.

    "Good As Gold".
  • 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.

  • Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people. . . . Fennel . . . smelling of changes to come.

    Average   People   Spices  
    Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1997). “The Mistress of Spices”, Doubleday
  • Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.

    Loyal   Capacity   Middle  
  • 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.

    Coffee   Elderly   Middle  
  • With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were their words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets.

    Men   Names   Ideas  
    Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.148, Tor Science Fiction
  • There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.

    Life   Passion   Men  
  • If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.

  • If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums.

    Night   Museums   Bars  
  • I'm a middle-aged dad, which means I have no social time or life to speak of, and so I connect with my buddies with my Xbox.

    Xbox   Dad   Mean  
    "Voice of Geek: an interview with Dee Bradley Baker". Interview with John Booth, www.wired.com. August 27, 2010.
  • You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

    Comedy   Comic   Middle  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    Wise   Smart   Self  
    "A Pirate Looks at Fifty". Book by Jimmy Buffett, www.cnn.com. 1998.
  • When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

    On not being Dead, as Reported
  • It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.

    Karin Fossum (2013). “Broken”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • In some contexts in Pakistan maybe a beard is negative. It depends. And in some contexts in America maybe a beard is positive. I think there's certainly lots of hipster communities where having a beard makes me look a little bit less like a, you know, middle-aged fuddy-duddy. And there's some places in Pakistan where having a beard, you know, certain corporate contexts, certain social contexts, where it's not an advantage to have a beard.

    Source: www.npr.org
  • After a childhood of hungering to be an adult, my hunger had passed. Unexpected fates had begun to catch my notice. These middle-aged women seemed very tired to me, as if hope had been wrung out of them and replaced with a deathly, walking sort of sleep.

    Tired   Sleep   Fate  
    Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.36, Vintage
  • When I was at college, I worked in a department store called Brit Home Stores, which is a pretty lackluster department store, selling clothes for middle-aged women. My job was to walk the floor and find anything that was damaged, take it to the store room and log it.

    Jobs   Home   College  
  • Italians give their city sexes, and they all agree that the sex for a particular city is quite correct, but none of them can explain why. I love that. London's middle-aged and male, respectably married but secretly gay.

    Sex   Gay   Cities  
  • Fate isn't some middle-aged man with a squint who won't recognize you if you change your clothes.

    Fate   Men   Clothes  
  • If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from the Beverly Hillbillies.

    Music   Song   Two  
    Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet
  • He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.

    Herbert Gold (2017). “The Age of Happy Problems”, p.78, Routledge
  • 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.

    Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”
  • Ask any Ferrari, Porsche or Ray-Ban salesperson about their average customer and you will very likely hear that he is not, as the adverts would have us believe, a virile young footballer with shiny hair, a rippling six pack and a trouser pouch like a new punch bag. He is, in fact, a middle-aged bloke wearing more chins than he started life with and carrying the clear evidence of forty years of beer and pies slung across his midriff.

    Believe   Beer   Pie  
Page 1 of 8
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • We hope our collection of Middle Aged quotes has inspired you! Our collection of sayings about Middle Aged is constantly growing (today it includes 211 sayings from famous people about Middle Aged), visit us more often and find new quotes from famous authors!
    Share our collection of quotes on social networks – this will allow as many people as possible to find inspiring quotes about Middle Aged!