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“I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion.”

Writing Ends Age Struggle Middle Youth Relation Confusion Valleys Middle Ages Public Relations Journalistic Bad Writing

Author:Stephen Spender

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

Real Political Purpose Can Do Middle Harm Senate Middle Ages Private Sector Middle Aged Knuckleheads

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed through the Middle Ages. Rather mankind has retreated from the Middle Ages in reaction and rout. The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.”

Mean Has Beens Enough Age Christian Past Found Left Difficult Middle Mankind Ideals Reactions Middle Ages Great Idea

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.”

Age Middle Youth Empty Spending Ignorant Old Age Improving Middle Ages

Book:A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet

Source: A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet

“The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, snivelling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goosesteppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the Middle Ages.”

People Ends Age Middle Flags Middle Ages Christendom Serfs

Book:Prejudices: Third Series

Source: Prejudices: Third Series

“I couldn't imagine anything more horrifying than three middle aged men trying to pretend that 'Black Dog' is still significant. It's inappropriate.”

Men Trying Stills Three Black Imagine Middle Dog Significant Middle Ages Inappropriate Middle Aged

Author:Robert Plant

“The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.”

World Stills Age Today Earth Middle Philosopher Arguing Flats Disputes Middle Ages

Book:The Standardization of Error

Source: The Standardization of Error

“I did not intend to write a funny book, at first. I did not know I was a humorist. I have never been sure about it. In the middle ages, I should probably have gone about preaching and got myself burnt or hanged.”

Knows Should Writing Firsts Book Age Gone Middle Preaching Middle Ages Humorists Funny Book

Book:Three Men in a Boat

Source: Three Men in a Boat

“The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.”

Age Grows Women Knowledge Middle Aging Memorable Birthday Frightening Middle Ages

Author:Doris Day

“Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.”

Age Time Wise Middle Youth Aging Decay Middle Ages Midlife Levity Misspent Youth

Author:Doris Day

“None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.”

Way Matter Age My Own Influence Middle Subjects Stage Mom Motherhood Etc Middle Ages Subject Matter Being A Mom

Author:Anne Tyler

“If you can't be pretty, you have to learn to make yourself attractive. I found that all the pretty girls I went to high school with came to middle age as frumps, because they just got by with their pretty faces, so they never developed anything. They never learned how to be interesting. But if you are bereft of certain things, you have to make up for them in certain ways. Don't you think?”

Ifs Thinking Way Age School Faces Certain Girl Found Interesting Middle High School Attractive Middle Ages Pretty Girl Bereft Pretty Face

Author:Iris Apfel

“Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to what is. Neither of them can tolerate capricious subjectivity because both are subject to their criteria of truth. Both require precision, order, and discipline because no comprehensible statement can be made without these. Both accept the sensory world as what the Middle Ages called signatura regrum, the signature of things, but in quite different ways.”

“With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle age—are so beautifully revealed here, a trenchant reminder that our pasts are alive inside of us. There are psychologists who can write, and writers who can psychologize, but rarely have the two met on the page with such moving, profound results.”

“A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.”

Age Middle Poet Longing Sexuality Poetic Middle Ages

Author:William A. Henry III

“Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.”

Men Life Firsts Age Wife Middle Middle Ages

Author:Richard Armour

“Life is not stationary. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years all tick away at the same clip for everyone. No age-group can be isolated. None of us can settle into infancy, youth, middle age, or old age. We all grow older, and, incidentally, it is an exciting thought if the accent is on growing. "Though our outward man perish," said Paul, "yet the inward man is renewed day by day" (2 Cor. 4:16; italics added).”

“..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the bible (I read the New Testament every few years) or reading the great 19th century novelists (the greatest and shrewdest judge of people and of society who ever lived), or classical philosophy (which I cannot read-it puts me to sleep immediately), or history (which is secondary). What matters is that the knowledge worker, by the time he or she reaches middle age, has developed and nourished a human being rather than a tax accountant or a hydraulic engineer.”

“Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.”

Age Felt Church Religious Emotion Modern Middle Moved Architecture Honestly Middle Ages Gothic Religious Love

Book:Lectures and Essays

Source: Lectures and Essays

“Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.”

Home Reality Age Funny Night Middle Humorous Sitting Witty Rings Birthday Sunday Weekend Saturday Telephones Friday Middle Ages Saturday Night Saturday And Sunday

Author:Ogden Nash

“On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quench'd the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth: Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare.”

Soul Age Middle Youth Presses Dare Sage Middle Ages Fiery Glee Quench Vehemence

Book:Poetical Works ... With a biographical and critical memoir by Francis Turner Palgrave. (The Globe edition.).

Source: Poetical Works ... With a biographical and critical memoir by Francis Turner Palgrave. (The Globe edition.).

“Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.”

Men Real Age Born Middle Finished Socialism Individualism Middle Ages Communes Inside Man

Author:Dario Fo

“When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part.”

Age Young Used Marriage Middle Hardest Middle Ages

Author:Arthur Rubinstein

“When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about the people who are being put in charge of things scares the hell out of him.”

People Knows Age Hell Knowing Middle Scare Middle Ages

Book:Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff

Source: Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff

“Perhaps the main, as well as the least obvious, achievement of the Middle Ages, was the creation of the experimental spirit, or more exactly its slow incubation. This was primarily due to Muslims down to the end of the twelfth century, then to Christians.”

Wells Age Spirit Middle Century Creation Achievement Obvious Dues Middle Ages

Author:George Sarton

“Clyde Phillip Wachsberger's delightful memoir about tending beds of flowers as compensation for a lonely middle age only to find unexpected romance along the way is a sweet reminder that, as he puts it, 'anything can happen in a garden.' In prose that balances candor with perfect courtesy, he charms us with the message that keeping a garden with a beloved companion, this most ephemeral of all the arts, can bring us the most enduring joys and pleasures.”

“The first indication of menopause is a broken thermostat. It's either that or your weight. In any case, if you don't do something, you could be dead by August. God, middle age is an unending insult.”

Ifs Firsts Age Cases Middle Broken Weight Insult Middle Ages August Indication Unending Menopause

Book:Sullivan's Island: A Lowcountry Tale

Source: Sullivan's Island: A Lowcountry Tale

“There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look".”

Life Wells Looks Age Three Middle Youth Periods Middle Ages

Author:Nelson Rockefeller

“I do not like to see men walk away from women in late middle age.”

Men Age Walks Middle Late Divorce Middle Ages

Author:Peter D. Kramer

“No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.”

Age Artist Interest Moral Failing Middle Students Aesthetic Middle Ages

Book:Lectures and Essays

Source: Lectures and Essays

“We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.”

Believe Made Age Middle Frightened Naive Middle Ages

Author:Neil Postman

“The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.”

Age Form House Middle Characteristics Halls Primitive Middle Ages Medieval Dwelling

Book:The House: Its Origins and Evolution

Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution

“I’m 59 and people call me middle aged. How many 118 year old men do you know?”

People Knows Men Years Funny Middle Old Age Call Me Old Man Do You Know Middle Ages Middle Aged

Author:Barry Cryer

“Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.”

Thinking Years Long Reason Age Time Fear Women Middle Youth Aging Sake Middle Ages Worth Living Long Sad

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“he technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the "physical book," a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.”

Knows Has Beens Book Age Beautiful Language Technology Middle Capable Phrases Middle Ages

Author:Art Spiegelman

“If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums.”

Ifs Night Middle Clubs Bars Museums Middle Ages Middle Aged Night Club

Author:Elizabeth Perkins

“Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants.”

People Age Economy Land Middle Various Empires Asia Indigenous Middle Ages Turkish

Author:John Shimkus

“Senescence begins And middle-age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends”

Ends Age Funny Middle Old Age Middle Ages Descendants

Author:Ogden Nash

“But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him.”

Ifs Mind Running Age Study Middle Periods England Satisfied Fancy Fraud Running Away Legislation Middle Ages Hype

Book:Lectures and Essays

Source: Lectures and Essays

“Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle age; but never to ardent three-and-twenty in the fever of his first love.”

Love Should Firsts May Age Three Asks Risk Middle Twenties Selfishness Ask Me First Love Middle Ages Fever Ardent Hardness Glorification

Book:The Lost World and Other Stories

Source: The Lost World and Other Stories

“There was a good deal to be said, Hilary decided, for middle age and infirmity. The years in which one demanded much of life were left behind, together with the bitterness of not getting what one wanted. One's values, too, were altered. Gifts that once one took for granted, sunshine and birdsong, freedom from pain, sleep and one's daily bread, seemed now so extraordinarily precious.”

“And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.”

Humans Play Age Human Beings Wonder Middle Mass Entertainment Technique Civilized Projection Middle Ages Subliminal

Author:Aldous Huxley

“I like my buddies from west Texas. I liked them when I was young; I liked them when I was middle-age; I liked them before I was President; and I like them during President; and I like them after President.”

Age Young President Middle West Texas Middle Ages Buddy West Texas

Author:George W. Bush

“Like the priestly cult of the Middle Ages, the modern priestly cult of "scientific" psychotherapists exist overwhelmingly to stultify or blunt a too-acute insight into the powers benumbed in our personalities by our prevailing culture.”

Philosophy Age Culture Modern Middle Personality Insight Cult Middle Ages Prevailing Blunt Psychotherapists

Author:Kenny Smith

“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.”

“It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have been lost. Well, we live in a similar time, when we're losing the vast majority of what we do and see and learn. But it doesn't have to be that way.”

Ifs World Way Wells Has Beens Age Lost Dark Middle Losing Majority Monk Middle Ages Dark Ages

Book:The Circle

Source: The Circle

“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.”

“Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.”

Source: The Business of Life

“The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a disagreeable thing.... So are flying twinges of gout, shortness of breath on the hill-side, the fact that even the moderate use of your friend's wines at dinner upsets you. These things are disagreeable because they tell you that you are no longer young—that you have passed through youth, are now in middle age, and faring onward to the shadows in which, somewhere, a grave is hid.”

“You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up.”

Knows Age Middle Standing Middle Ages Weightlifting

Author:Bob Hope

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