Middle Aged Quotes - Page 6

• There is a thing called knowledge of the world, which people do not have until they are middle-aged. It is something which cannot be taught to younger people, because it is not logical and does not obey laws which are constant. It has no rules. Only, in the long years which bring women to the middle of life, a sense of balance develops...when she is beginning to hate her used body, she suddenly finds that she can do it. She can go on living.

  T. H. White

  Hate, Years, Law

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• There's nothing wild about me. I'm a solid middle-aged man." "Except that once a month you turn into a wolf and go tearing around slaughtering things," Clary said. "It could be worse," Luke said. "Men my age have been known to purchase expensive sports cars and sleep with supermodels.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sports, Sleep, Men

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• I suspect most self-described 18-year-old Scandinavian women named Inga who collect and wear string bikinis are, in reality, more likely to be middle-aged, pot-bellied guys named Lou who collect and wear string cheese.

  Pat Sajak

  Reality, Self, Years

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• I'm a middle-aged dad, which means I have no social time or life to speak of, and so I connect with my buddies with my Xbox.

  Dee Bradley Baker

  Xbox, Dad, Mean

  "Voice of Geek: an interview with Dee Bradley Baker". Interview with John Booth, www.wired.com. August 27, 2010.

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• You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

  Andrew Denton

  Comedy, Comic, Middle

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

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• For some reason I seem to be a massive hit with middle-aged women. I seriously don't know what it is.

  John Barrowman

  Reason, Middle, Knows

  "John Barrowman interview: Sometimes fans send me knickers, but I never send mine back". www.mirror.co.uk. August 8, 2011.

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• The world is an illusion. Why is it unreal? Because none of the knowledge is going to remain permanent, as real knowledge. I had a number of identities; I was a child, I was a boy, I was a teenager, I was a middle-aged man, I was an old man. Like other identities I thought would remain constant, they never remained so. Finally, I became very old. . . So which identity remained honest with me?

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Children, Real, Teenager

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (2011). “The Ultimate Medicine: Dialogues with a Realized Master”, p.154, North Atlantic Books

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• The purpose of the Senate is to keep 100 middle aged knuckleheads out of the private sector where they can do real harm.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Real, Political, Knuckleheads

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• I couldn't see much point in tying myself down to a middle-aged woman with four children, even though the woman was my wife and the children were my own.

  Joseph Heller

  Marriage, Children, Wife

  "Good As Gold".

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• Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably forced his growth-as on the question of civil rights-he functioned like most men, as a product of his background.

  Tom Wicker

  Character, Men, Rights

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• The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror genre that shows a growing appetite for watching torture, or at least a desire to explore it on film? And if so, why would that be? I can't pretend I know. I just know I don't like it.

  Mark Gatiss

  Men, Horror Genre, Desire

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• It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.

  Cyril Connolly

  Infidelity, Age, Causes

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• My mother was tickled and I think kind of proud when my father got hit on my an attractive middle-aged Asian lady who hadn't noticed he was with his family. He was certainly pleased about it.

  Craig Ferguson

  Marriage, Mother, Father

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• The primary social goal of both systems of political economy is for middle-aged men to attract good-looking younger women. Democratic capitalists believe that good-looking younger women are attracted mainly by money. Social democratic capitalists believe that they are attracted mainly by power.

  Gary North

  Believe, Men, Goal

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• A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals. Youths are conservatives, with a dash of criminal negligence. Men in their prime are liberals (as long as their digestion keeps pace with their intellect). The middle aged run to shelter: they insure their life, draft a will, accumulate mementos and occasional tables, and hope for security. And then comes old age, which repeats childhood - a time full of humors and sadness, but often full of courage and even prophecy.

  E. B. White

  Running, Children, Sadness

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• I would always prefer radio or working behind the scenes where I don't have to be seen. I don't like how appearance oriented TV is (especially now that I'm middle aged!). But I am developing a show revolving around animal rescue which will hopefully entertain and maybe do a bit of good for the cause as well.

  Susan Olsen

  Animal, Behind The Scenes, Radio

  "'Brady Bunch' Feud: Susan 'Cindy' Olsen Says Lesbian Rumors False" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. November 20, 2009.

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• I am a middle-aged opera queen in loafers that makes out I am a 16 year old death metal skater... It's all fake! My hair is fake, my body is fake and my teeth are kind of fake

  Rick Owens

  Queens, Hair, Years

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• Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

  John Ciardi

  Love, Relationship, Romance

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• A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

  Aldous Huxley

  Education, Children, Teaching

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• I'm officially middle-aged. I don't need drugs anymore, thank God. I can get the same effect just by standing up real fast.

  Jonathan Katz

  Real, Drug, Thank God

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• Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.

  Mike Myers

  Europe, People, Trying

  "Mike Myers' euro vision". www.theguardian.com. June 8, 1999.

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• If she had been left alone she would have gone on, in her own way, enjoying herself thoroughly, until people found one day that she had turned imperceptibly into one of those women who have become old without ever having been middle aged: a little withered, a little acid, hard as nails, sentimentally kindhearted, and addicted to religion or small dogs.

  Doris Lessing

  Dog, People, One Day

  Doris Lessing (1973). “The Grass is Singing”, p.46, Heinemann

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• If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.

  Samantha Bond

  Middle, Pops, Sensational

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• You can't change old people. Unlike middle-aged people, they do what they want.

  Kathy Acker

  People, Want, Middle

  Source: bombmagazine.org

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• But who, in the Western world, has not been deranged by a toxic cocktail of dissatisfaction, restlessness, desire and resentment? Who has not yearned to be younger, richer, more talented, more respected, more celebrated, and, above all, more sexually attractive? Who has not felt entitled to more and aggrieved when more was not forthcoming? It is possible that a starving African farmer has less sense of injustice than a middle-aged Western male who has never been fellated.

  Michael Foley

  Desire, Cocktails, Males

  Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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