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 th...
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Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else
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I've watched a lot of mid-career people, and Yogi Berra says you can observe a lot just by watching. I've concluded that most people enjoy learning and growing. And many are dearly troubled by the self-assessments of mid-career. Such self-assessments are no great problem at your age. You're young and moving up. The drama of your own rise is enough. But when you reach middle age, when your energies aren't what they used to be, then you'll begin to wonder what it all added up to; you'll begin to look for the figure in the carpet of your life. I have some simple advice for you when you begin that process. Don't be too hard on yourself. Look ahead. Someone said that Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. And above all don't imagine that the story is over. Life has a lot of chapters.
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Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.
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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.
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For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian and German political degradations which would envelop the globe and steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night and slaverly which would last till Christ comes again--which I hope he will n
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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is - I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at - a period something like a printed page, b
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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 up to the net.
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Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.
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Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?
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I hate middle age. Too young for the bowling green, too old for Ecstasy.
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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She has discovered the secret of perpetual middle age.
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Youth is when we are always hunting greener pastures, and middle age is when we can barely mow the one we've got.
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He has his health, and ampler strength indeed Than most have of his age.
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A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work; but whereas the composer and the painter can ...
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Middle age starts when you have been warned to slow down, not by a motorcycle cop, but by your doctor.
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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 up to the net.
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Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
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Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
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Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.
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Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
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As the moon waxes, then wanes, so at middle age do people decline.
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Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.
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Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
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