(61 quotes found)
“The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.”
Orson Welles
“Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock”
Ronald Reagan
“Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.”
Don Marquis
“Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.”
Lillian Carter
“Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.”
Harold Coffin
“It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.”
Andre Gide
“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
“Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net”
Franklin Pierce Adams
“One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.”
William Feather
“Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age”
Elliot Paul