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~ Age steals away all things, even the mind.~ Virgil
~ Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. ~ Kin Hubbard ~ Middle age: Later than you think and sooner than you expect. ~ Earl Wilson ~ We are young only once, after that we need some other excuse. ~ Anonymous ~ Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy. ~ Anonymous ~ The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible. ~ Judith Regan ~ Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~ Jennifer Yane ~ Middle age is when a narrow waist and a broad mind begin to change places. ~ Anonymous ~ Zeal, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. ~ Ambrose Bierce ~ What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. ~ Voltaire ~ At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning? Amazed. ~ Ludwig von Mises ~ I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. ~ Rose Kennedy ~ Don't worry about avoiding temptation, as you grow older, it starts avoiding you. ~ Anonymous ~ There are three periods in life: youth, middle age, and "how well you look." ~ Nelson Rockefeller ~ Old people shouldn't eat health foods. They need all the preservatives they can get. ~ Robert Orben ~ The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.~ Jerry M. Wright ~ My first advice on how not to grow old would be to choose you ancestors carefully.~ Bertrand Russell ~ As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it. ~ Mignon McLaughlin ~ Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart. ~ Caryn Leschen ~ A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~ Robert Frost ~ Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you. ~ Robert Quillen ~ Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. ~ Bill Vaughan ~ When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth. ~ Elmer Davis ~ Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~ Dan Bennett ~ No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. ~ Florida Scott Maxwell ~ The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed. ~ Henry David Thoreau ~ In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities. ~ E.B. White ~ As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am. ~ Erma Bombeck ~ 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. ~ Ogden Nash ~ Middle age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ~ Sydney J. Harris ~ I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up. ~ Harry Hershfield |
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~ You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired. ~ Robert Brault
~ Life begins at 40, but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times. ~ William Feather
~ Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush to the net. ~ Franklin Adams
~ You are not permitted to kill a woman who has injured you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.~ Ambrose Bierce
~ Life begins at 40, but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times. ~ William Feather
~ Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush to the net. ~ Franklin Adams
~ You are not permitted to kill a woman who has injured you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.~ Ambrose Bierce