Quotes About Middle age

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age.

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

Whispering from her towers [Oxford] the last enchantments of the Middle Age…. Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

Though Jonah felt transfixed inside his own childhood, no one else saw him as a child. He was already over the hump of middle age, heading rapidly toward those year that no one like to speak of. The best parts had already passed for people Jonah's age. By now you were meant to have become what you would finally be, and to gracefully and unobtrusively stay in that state for the rest of your life.

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

The attrition continues, though at a more sedate pace, throughout a woman's youth and early middle age. At most, 450 of her eggs will be solicited for ovulation, and far fewer than that if she spends a lot of time being pregnant and thus not ovulating.

The 1918 influenza pandemic famously had a W-shaped curve. The very young and the very old were at increased risk, but there was also elevated risk in the middle of the age distribution, spiking in patients around twenty-five years old. Scientists have been studying this for decades but are still unsure why it happened.

one is creeping into middle age and is less easily distracted by one's appetites, which have grown feebler, and by one's passions, which seems such a bore - all but the consuming desire for knowledge and understanding. That grows. - Aldous Huxley

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