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“The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are interpreted falsely as signs of decay. In youth one does not as often misinterpret the signs; one accepts them, quite rightly, as growing pains. One takes them seriously, listens to them, follows where they lead. ... But in the middle age, because of the false assumption that it is a period of decline, one interprets these life-signs, paradoxically, as signs of approaching death.”

“My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in shape has become the imperative of our middle age. The heaviest burden of guilt we carry into our forties is flab. Our sense of failure is measured by the grade on a stress test.”

Firsts Age Next Generations Middle Shapes Tests Stress Guilt Species Burden Scales Grades Forty Fitness Imperatives Middle Ages My Generation Godliness

Book:Making Sense

Source: Making Sense

“A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.”

Men Age Action Records Middle Youth Reflection Old Age Sentiments Diaries Middle Ages

Author:John Quincy Adams

“My mother had demonstrated that the best way to defeat the numbing ambivalence of middle age is to surprise yourself - by pulling off some cartwheel of thought or action never even imagined at a younger age.”

Way Age Action Mother Middle Surprise Defeat Best Way Pulling Middle Ages Ambivalence Numbing Cartwheels

Author:Gail Sheehy

“As we reach midlife in the middle thirties or early forties, we are not prepared for the idea that time can run out on us, or for the startling truth that if we don't hurry to pursue our own definition of a meaningful existence, life can become a repetition of trivial maintenance duties.”

Ifs Ideas Running Age Existence Middle Duty Prepared Definitions Meaningful Pursue Forty Repetition Middle Ages Maintenance Midlife

Book:Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life

Source: Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life

“Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.”

Age Interest Middle Limitation Fancy Mediocrity Middle Ages Dullness Thinness

Author:Margaret Fuller

“we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.”

Knows Age Loss Responsibility Middle Sorrow Anxiety Tables Folks Division Middle Ages Middle Aged Multiplication Subtraction

Author:Margaret Deland

“it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.”

Age Interest Middle Highest Middle Ages

Author:Janet Erskine Stuart

“A woman's work, from the time she gets up to the time she goes to bed, is as hard as a day at war, worse than a man's working day. ... To men, women's work was like the rain-bringing clouds, or the rain itself. The task involved was carried out every day as regularly as sleep. So men were happy - men in the Middle Ages, men at the time of the Revolution, and men in 1986: everything in the garden was lovely.”

Men War Hard Age Women Sleep Middle Revolution Involved Bed Rain Garden Tasks Clouds Lovely Get Up Inequality Sexism Middle Ages Men Women Happy Man

Author:Marguerite Duras

“I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.”

Men Age Brain Heard Middle Youth Regret Passing Passings Middle Ages Middle Aged

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“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.”

Dream Remember Young Women Middle Praying Middle Ages Middle Aged

Author:Barbara Cartland

“My grandmother refused to concede that any member of the family died of natural causes. An uncle's cancer in middle age occurred because all the suitcases fell off the luggage rack onto him when he was in his teens, and so forth. Death was an acquired characteristic.”

Age Causes Natural Middle Members Died Cancer Characteristics Grandmother Teens Uncles My Grandmother Middle Ages Suitcases Racks Luggage

Book:Speedboat

Source: Speedboat

“The middle years of life come on like thunder.”

Years Age Middle Thunder Middle Ages Years Of Life

Author:Nellie L. McClung

“In public buildings set aside for the care and maintenance of the goods of the middle ages, a staff of civil service art attendants praise all the dead, irrelevant scribblings and scrawlings that, at best, have only historical interest for idiots and layabouts.”

Art Care Age Interest Middle Building Praise Historical Idiot Goods Staff Irrelevant Middle Ages Maintenance Civil Service

Book:Art Is in Danger

Source: Art Is in Danger

“Respect for woman, the much lauded chivalry of the Middle Ages, meant what I fear it still means to some men in our own day - respect for the elect few among whom they expect to consort.”

Men Mean Stills Age Middle Middle Ages Chivalry Respect Women

Book:A Voice from the South

Source: A Voice from the South

“God, middle age is an unending insult.”

Age Middle Insult Middle Ages Unending Menopause

Book:Sullivan's Island: A Lowcountry Tale

Source: Sullivan's Island: A Lowcountry Tale

“The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has something new to teach us. The harvest of youth is achievement; the harvest of middle-age is perspective; the harvest of age is wisdom; the harvest of life is serenity.”

“belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager vitality postpone the unenterprising cautions and timidities of middle age.”

Children Age Parent Middle Youth Habit Caution Persistent Vitality Middle Ages Compensation Small Child Timidity Maternity Belated

Author:Vera Brittain

“Identifying as a Pagan, feminist, Witch, and anarchist is possibly a way to alarm great segments of the general public, but at least it keeps me from sinking into a boring and respectable middle age.”

Way Age Middle Identity Feminist Boring Witch Middle Ages Respectable Anarchist Alarms Pagan Sinking Identifying General Public

Author:Starhawk

“Today age segregation has passed all sane limits. Not only are fifteen-year-olds isolated from seventy-year-olds but social groups divide those in high school from those in junior high, and those who are twenty from those who are twenty-five. There are middle-middle-age groups, late-middle-age groups, and old-age groups - as though people with five years between them could not possibly have anything in common.”

“Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to pay for musicians. The kings and queens had musicians in the castles, and that developed into symphony orchestras and what we call "Classical music" now.”

Way Age Pay Middle Kings Musician Europe Queens Orchestra Castles Middle Ages Symphony Classical Music Old Days Aristocracy Kings And Queens Symphony Orchestras

Author:Pete Seeger

“From youth to middle, and often to past middle, age, most men are apt to be too closely engaged in the struggle of life to pay due attention to the strength of the body. They may take daily what they consider a sufficient amount of exercise; but the exercise is not calculated to keep the various limbs and muscles, still less the internal organs, in proper working order. Amid the ordinary concerns of life the man may appear strong, even stalwart. But when occasion arises for some special muscular exercise, or taxing the action of some organ, he finds out his weakness.”

“The office of Speaker is almost as ancient as Parliament itself. It emerged in the Middle Ages when the Commons - the ordinary people - of England needed a spokesman in their dealings with the King, someone who would voice their grievances and present their petitions. This was by no means a safe or easy thing to do at that time, and potential spokesman generally had to be pressured into accepting the responsibility.”

Source: The House of Commons at Work

“We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.”

Trying Sometimes Age Individual Mistake Middle Youth Individuality Middle Ages Eccentricity

Author:Alec-Tweedie

“[On middle age:] ... the very real possibility for you of growing fat as you near death and thus being seen by everyone while you are both DEAD AND FAT.”

Real Age Growing Middle Possibility Fats Middle Ages Near Death

Book:How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe

Source: How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe

“Middle Age, a restful, welcome break from real life, brings some unique opportunities.”

Real Age Opportunity Break Middle Unique Real Life Welcome Middle Ages Restful Unique Opportunities

Book:How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe

Source: How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe

“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.”

Men Play Age Middle He Man Taste Musical Cancer Fats Pants Sixty Belly Middle Ages Vests Sagging Musical Taste

Author:Marilyn Suzanne Miller

“The term middle-aged, invented by Descartes, comes from the Latin, medeus, meaning 'not really old' and ageis, meaning 'if you look at it in a certain way.”

Ifs Way Looks Age Certain Term Middle Latin Middle Ages Middle Aged

Book:How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe

Source: How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe

“Middle age is when you find out where the action is so you can go someplace else.”

Age Action Middle Middle Ages

Book:All my meadows

Source: All my meadows

“Middle age is when you get in the car and immediately change the radio station.”

Age Middle Car Radio Stations Middle Ages Radio Stations

Author:Patricia Penton Leimbach

“One of the characteristics of the university is that it is made up of professors who train professors, or professionals training professionals. Education was this no longer directed toward people who were to be educated with a view to become fully developed human beings, but to specialists, in other that they might learn how to train other specialists. This is the danger of "Scholasticism," that philosophical tendency which began to be sketched at the end of antiquity, developed in the Middle Ages, and whose presence is still recognizable in philosophy today.”

“I also believe - and hope - that politics and economics will cease to be as important in the future as they have been in the past; the time will come when most of our present controversies on these matters will seem as trivial, or as meaningless, as the theological debates in which the keenest minds of the Middle Ages dissipated their energies. Politics and economics are concerned with power and wealth, neither of which should be the primary, still less the exclusive, concern of full-grown men.”

“The story of Mirror Mirror is in many ways a story about evolution. Its about the evolution of a child into an adult. Its about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. Its about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason.”

Way Children Littles Reason Stories Light Age Darkness Middle Rocks Evolution Adults Mirrors Middle Ages Dwarves Age Of Reason

Author:Gregory Maguire

“By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.”

Years Believe Wells Age I Believe Practice Five Middle Youth Twenties Following Well Being Thirty Five Years Middle Ages Twenty Five Vitamins Nutrients

Book:How to Live Longer and Feel Better

Source: How to Live Longer and Feel Better

“Ressentiment is always to some degree a determinant of the romantic type of mind. At least this is so when the romantic nostalgia for some past era (Hellas, the Middle Ages, etc.) is not primarily based on the values of that period, but on the wish to escape from the present. Then all praise of the “past” has the implied purpose of downgrading present-day reality.”

Mind Reality Age Past Purpose Values Wish Middle Type Periods Degrees Praise Nostalgia Eras Etc Middle Ages Present Day Implied Downgrading

Book:On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings

Source: On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings

“The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior to reason. The Renaissance was specifically the rebirth of reason, the liberation of man's mind, the triumph of rationality over mysticism - a faltering, incomplete, but impassioned triumph that led to the birth of science, of individualism, of freedom.”

Source: The New Left: the Anti-Industrial Revolution

“Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles.”

Age Language Natural Principles Middle Philosopher Logical Flaws Middle Ages Orderly Idiom

Author:Joshua Foer

“The Egyptians had the locusts and in the Middle Ages there was the Black Death with the rats, but tourists are the plague of our century and we'll not survive this one.”

Age Black Modern Middle Century Rats Plague Middle Ages Modern Life Tourists Black Death

Author:Richard Conniff

“I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.”

Home Community Failing Groups Economic Middle Couple Travel Meetings Affair Nine Hotel Middle Ages Great Love Love Affair Middle Aged Brussels

Author:Kenneth Tynan

“Musically, there's a movement called the flatted fifth that's really evil-sounding. It was outlawed by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages. That movement is what gives you a real evil sound that conjures up dark, fantastic images. It's like an audio horror movie. It personifies what a horror movie is about.”

Giving Real Age Evil Sound Church Dark Middle Movement Horror Catholic Fantastic Fifth Middle Ages Catholic Church Audio

Author:Kirk Hammett

“In the agreement to rescue Rome [i.e., the Roman Catholic Church's hierarchy] from the predicament of losing its world control to Protestantism, and to preserve the spiritual and temporal supremacy which the popes [had] 'usurped' during the Middle Ages, Rome now 'sold' the [Roman Catholic] Church to the Society of Jesus [i.e., the Jesuits]; in essence the popes surrendered themselves into their hands.”

“Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.”

Age Wish Middle Youth Middle Ages

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.”

Mean Made Enough Age Lasts Political Night Fall Christ Trouble Atheism Middle England Positive Atheism Globes Middle Ages Degradation Steep

Book:Mark Twain-Howells Letters: The Correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens and William D. Howells, 1872-1910

Source: Mark Twain-Howells Letters: The Correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens and William D. Howells, 1872-1910

“Middle age is when the best exercise is one of discretion.”

Age Middle Exercise Judgment Middle Ages Discretion Best Exercise

Author:Laurence J. Peter

“Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.”

People Children Age Action Fun Ability Middle Conditions Example Our Children Intelligence Setting Factors Settings Your Children Delay Middle Ages Setting An Example

Author:William Faulkner

“In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.”

Men Way Age Death Childhood Middle Old Man Middle Ages Pursued Bandits Prowling

Book:Mardi: And a Voyage Thither

Source: Mardi: And a Voyage Thither

“In the Middle Ages people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.”

People Age Today Modern Middle Century Citizens Oil Technological Snakes Middle Ages 19th Century Ailments Cactus Antioxidants

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“We live a pleasant life shopping at the Food Shoppe . . . taking the kids to the Weinery-Beanery, . . . and eating bran flakes . .. and then, with no warning, we wake up one morning stricken with middle age, full of loneliness, dumb, in pain. Our work is useless, our vocation is lost, and nobody cares about us at all. This is not bearable. In despair, we go do something spectacularly dumb, like run away with Amber the cocktail waitress, and suddenly all the women in our life look at us with unmitigated disgust.”

“After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.”

Self Age Middle Aging Questioning Sixty Middle Ages Obsolete Self Questioning

Author:Mason Cooley

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