M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Middle Age connotes fat, cancer, bad musical taste, and death. It conjures up a commuter in the sixties going to a Neil Simon play in Sansabelt pants, a knit vest, balding, belly sagging - and then there's the men.”
“Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.”
“Middle age is not the beginning of decline, but a time to reach for the highest in our selves. Middle age is a pause to re-examine what we have done and what we will do in the future. This is the time to give birth to our power.”
Source: The Wisdom of Midlife: Reclaim Your Passion, Power and Purpose
“Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'”
“Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.”
“Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.”
“Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring.”
“Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.”
“Middle age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired.”
“Middle age is when the best exercise is one of discretion.”
“Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.”
“Middle age is when you find out where the action is so you can go someplace else.”
Source: All my meadows
“Middle age is when you get in the car and immediately change the radio station.”
“Middle age is when you go to bed at night and hope you feel better in the morning. Old age is when you go to bed at night and hope you wake up in the morning.”
“Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.”
“Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning.”
“Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.”
“Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.”
Source: The uncommon wisdom of Ronald Reagan: a portrait in his own words
“Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.”
“Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.”
“Middle age is when, whenever you go on holiday, you pack a sweater.”
“Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.”
“Middle age isn’t about filling out, but thinning. I’m going to have to find ways of plumping it, like blowing up a tyre.”
Source: The Younger Woman
“Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.”
“Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.”
“Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.”
“Middle Age, a restful, welcome break from real life, brings some unique opportunities.”
Source: How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe
“Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.”
“Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you.”
“Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.”
“Middle aged people are the bulk of what hospital emergency departments are seeing for COVID-19 in the USA.”
“Middle children weep longer than their brothers and sisters. Over her mother’s shoulder, stilling her pains and her injured pride, Jackie Lacon watched the party leave. First, two men she had not seen before: one tall, one short and dark. They drove off in a small green van. No one waved to them, she noticed, or even said goodbye. Next, her father left in his own car; lastly a blond, good-looking man and a short fat one in an enormous overcoat like a pony blanket made their way to a sports car parked under the beech trees. For a moment she really thought there must be something wrong with the fat one, he followed so slowly and so painfully. Then, seeing the handsome man hold the car door for him, he seemed to wake, and hurried forward with a lumpy skip. Unaccountably, this gesture upset her afresh. A storm of sorrow seized her and her mother could not console her.”
Source: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
“Middle class America is acutely aware of how bad this economy is, and it is going to demand changes. I don't think politicians can afford to be complacent.”
“Middle class Americans don't ask for special favors, they just want basic fairness, and a President who fights for that ideal.”
“Middle-class Americans, like myself and my fellow seekers, have been raised with the old-time Protestant expectation that hard work will be rewarded with material comfort and security. This has never been true of the working class, most of which toils away at wages incommensurate with the effort required. And now, the sociologists agree, it is increasingly untrue of the educated middle class that stocks our corporate bureaucracies.”
Source: Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
“Middle-class gay white men argued that 'gay rights' should remain a legislative issue and that 'legally sanctioned gay marriage should be a primary concern for all of us.' Kunzel charts the ways that the forced forgetting of queer and trans prisoners was central to the coalescing of 'new gay norms,' 'gay respectability,' and homonormativity. This disciplining of the queer left was a racialized proect that coalesced around shoring up the privileges afforded by whiteness, gender normativity, and capital.”
Source: Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
“Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence.”
“Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die.”
Source: Out of the Wilderness: Diaries, 1963-67
“Middle class people, the bourgeoisie, they are also feeling frightened at the moment. Some fear losing their fortunes; some go bankrupt; some are thinking about suicide. They don't know if they will retain the beautiful house that they bought, or what will happen to the five family cars.”
“Middle class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.”
“Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to have absolutely no values and an unlimited amount of money.”
“Middle East has been in turmoil for thousands of years. For us to think that we're going to in there and fix that with a couple of little bombs and a few little decorations is relatively foolish.”
“Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor”
“Middle management is a disease.”
“Middle managers sit at a curious intersection of power; they are a significant factor in employee morale (Glusker et al., 2022; Kennedy & Garewal, 2020), yet relatively powerless to effect meaningful organ- izational change beyond their unit. Middle managers are subject to undermining from every level in academic libraries, whether from peer managers establishing their turf, from unhappy or ambitious direct reports, or from senior leaders that use shakeups or austerity measures as a way to establish power and demonstrate innov- ation and impact to campus leaders.
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Source: Libraries as Dysfunctional Organizations and Workplaces
“Middle names are kind of like vice presidents: It's a fine distinction and certainly an honor, but you're never not aware that someone else got the real job.”
“Middle School is about as bad as it gets, and then it gets better.”
Source: The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder
“Middle school is kind of like Middle-earth. It’s a magical journey filled with elves, dwarves, hobbits, queens, kings, and a few corrupt wizards. Word to the wise: pick your traveling companions well. Ones with the courage and moral fiber to persevere. Ones who wield their lip gloss like magic wands when confronted with danger. This way, when you pass through the congested hallways rife with pernicious diversion, you achieve your desired destination—or at least your next class.
-CeCee, Lucy and CeCee's How to Survive (and Thrive) in Middle School”
Source: Lucy and CeCee's How to Survive (and Thrive) in Middle School
“Middle School is such a perfect name for middle school. If I were told that there was a commission for nationwide title submissions for the grades between elementary and high and a committee was appointed to boil down the entries in search of a name that was simple, public friendly, easy to spell, syllabically chantable (Mid-dle-school! Mid-dle-school!) devoid of possible copyright infringement, and most importantly, evocative of the emotion of being In Limbo, and Middle School was the out and out winner, I would believe that.”
Source: Handsome Vanilla
“Middle school was what programmed me to be semi-insecure, like, all of the time. I didn’t fit in….I’d stand on the outside of the circle but I was never really in. That’s when I started to realize there’s this thing called rejection.”