“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.”
Thomas Arnold
“I know we only live once. But that doesn't mean live fast and die young. There is more youth six feet under! Than the elderly in nursing homes.”
Philip T. M.
“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”
Ogden Nash
“The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'.”
June Whitfield
“Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.”
Anne Bradstreet
“Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.”
Bob Hope
“Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.”