(61 quotes found)
“Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.”
E. Joseph Cossman
“Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.”
William Feather
“Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning.”
Bob Hope
“Middle age is Janus-faced. As we look back on our accomplishments and our failures to achieve the things we wanted, we look ahead to the time we have left to us. Our children are gaining life, and our parents are losing it.”
Stanley H Cath
“Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.”
Bill Vaughn
“Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.”
Doris Day
“There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look”
Nelson Rockefeller
“There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.”
Edward Hoagland
“Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.”
Ogden Nash