Middle Aged Quotes

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  The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Growing Up

  "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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• The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Dream, Regret, Age

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

  Kin Hubbard

  Humorous, Maturity, Boys

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• No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  Measure of my Days (1968) p. 16

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• 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

  Communication, Ignorance, Two

  Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”

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• Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

  Hervey Allen

  Age, Five Senses, 20th Birthday

  Hervey Allen (1933). “Anthony Adverse”

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• 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.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Time, Inspiration, Live Life

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• The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Moon, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.167, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Adversity, Years, Weather

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• Most dictators were short, fat, middle-aged and hairless. Besides Danny Devito, there's only me to play them.

  Bob Hoskins

  Play, Dictator, Middle

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

  Oscar Wilde

  Kings, People, Self Help

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.823, GENERAL PRESS

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• 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.

  Dave Barry

  Music, Song, Two

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• Every woman dreams of love. When she is young she prays she will find it. When she is middle aged she hopes for it and when she is old she remembers it.

  Barbara Cartland

  Dream, Women, Remember

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• It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal computers. Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, ‘We want it now, in our lifetime.’ This is your moment. This is your opportunity. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Country, Creativity, Opportunity

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• You don't spend ten years appealing to middle-aged women and then suddenly turn around and start trying to connect with 25-year-old women. You're almost certainly going to alienate the people who have an investment in your brand, and there's no guarantee you're going to be successful with the new group.

  Kevin Lane Keller

  Business, Successful, Years

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• ...and motioned me toward a spot next to a middle-aged Moroi in a very formal and very designer black suit. The suit screamed, I'm sorry the queen is dead, and I'm going to look fashionable while showing my grief

  Richelle Mead

  Queens, Sorry, Grief

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.247, Penguin

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• In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

  George Eliot

  Time, Men, Ties

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.104, Penguin

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• He was a nice guy, middle-aged, a little tired, like most doctors usually seemed to be, but he just nodded and said, "Let me take a look at him. Shane?" "I'm not dropping my pants," Shane said. "I just thought I'd say that up front.

  Rachel Caine

  Nice, Tired, Doctors

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town: The Morganville Vampires”, p.46, Penguin

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• They resumed walking. Alex felt an ache in his eyes and throat. "I don't know what happened to me," he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't." Bennie glanced at him, a middle-aged man with chaotic silver hair and thoughtful eyes. "You grew up, Alex," he said, "just like the rest of us.

  Jennifer Egan

  Eye, Thoughtful, Men

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.274, Anchor

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• I'm a licensed private investigator and have been for quite a while. I'm a lone wolf, unmarried, getting middle-aged, and not rich. I've been in jail more than once and I don't do divorce business. I like liquor and women and chess and a few other things. The cops don't like me too well, but I know a couple I get along with. I'm a native son, born in Santa Rosa, both parents dead, no brothers or sisters, and when I get knocked off in a dark alley sometime, if it happens, as it could to anyone in my business, nobody will feel that the bottom has dropped out of his or her life.

  Raymond Chandler

  Brother, Couple, Divorce

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.87, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• 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.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Wise, Smart, Self

  "A Pirate Looks at Fifty". Book by Jimmy Buffett, www.cnn.com. 1998.

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• For some reason all the middle-aged women he knew were very efficient.

  Haruki Murakami

  Reason, Middle, Efficient

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• How had I become middle-aged while the ravages of time ignored her? I didn't know and didn't care, and before I could stop them, the words were already out. "You're beautiful," I murmured.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Beautiful, Care, Ignored

  Nicholas Sparks (2013). “The Wedding”, p.96, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Orson Scott Card

  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

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• When Roseanne read the first script of mine that got into her hands without being edited by someone else she said, 'How can you write a middle-aged woman this well?' I said, 'If you met my mom you wouldn't ask'.

  Joss Whedon

  Mom, Writing, Hands

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