Middle Aged Quotes - Page 8

• Evolving into a middle-aged person is quite interesting if we can understand what it means. I would like to think it meant being a bit sure of what I want.

  Dawn French

  Mean, Thinking, Interesting

  "Dawn French: Lenny Henry is now my best mate". www.mirror.co.uk. July 27, 2010.

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• My mom wouldn't let me buy clothes she didn't like, so I dressed like a middle-aged woman in high school.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Mom, School, Clothes

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• I don't judge people by their bodies. Even when I was a young girl I liked men for their minds. Now that I'm middle-aged I see how right I was.

  Jane Bowles

  Girl, Men, People

  Jane Bowles (2014). “My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles”, p.78, Macmillan

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• Nail polish or false eyelashes isn't politics. If you have good politics, what you wear is irrelevant. I don't take dictation from the pig-o-cratic style setters who say I should dress like a middle-aged lady. My politics don't depend on whether my tits are in or out of a bra.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Pigs, Eyelashes, Style

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• [On golf:] ... though aware I could never be more than a humble potterer, it was impossible to repress the wild upsurgings of hope known to all middle-aged beginners.

  Ethel Smyth

  Humble, Golf, Beginners

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• The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Principles, Realizing, Middle

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.541, Open Road Media

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• 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.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Regret, Men, Brain

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• Budapest in late May is a city of lilacs. The sweet, languid, rather sleepy smell of lilacs wafts everywhere. And it is a city of lovers, many of them quite middle-aged. Walking with their arms around each other, embracing and kissing on park benches. A sensuousness very much bound up (it seems to me) with the heady ubiquitous smell of lilacs.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Sweet, Kissing, Cities

  Joyce Carol Oates (1988). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, E P Dutton

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• What I lack in style and craft, I can make up for in joy and enthusiasm. I like to be around people who are at ease so I like to think the 25-year-old would find me quite an easy-going late-middle-aged hippie.

  Robert Plant

  Hippie, Thinking, Years

  "The Survivors: Robert Plant". Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. November 7, 2011.

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• I looked into the mirror and saw this middle-aged woman who keeps invading my face.

  Liv Ullmann

  Mirrors, Age, Saws

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• Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged.

  Hesiod

  Prayer, Advice, Action

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• It has been explained to me that toys are packaged in shards, to be assembled by the middle-aged and butter-fingered, because this makes it easier for the shippers. ... If they had to spend hours and hours putting handlebars onto bicycles ... they would repent their ways and deliver something that looked like a rocking horse and not like the result of a small street accident.

  Jean Kerr

  Horse, Way, Toys

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• I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young wife. The only thing I could do now for which my youth would be a truly notable feature would be to die. If I died now, I'd die young. Everything else, I'm doing middle-aged.

  Meghan Daum

  Teacher, Wife, Young Writers

  Meghan Daum (2014). “The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion”, p.83, Macmillan

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• People will say, 'Seventy isn't old, it's middle-aged,' and I think, middle of what - 140?

  Judith Martin

  Thinking, People, Middle

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• This going into Europe will not turn out to be the thrilling mutual exchange supposed. It is more like nine middle-aged couples with failing marriages meeting in a darkened bedroom in a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

  E. P. Thompson

  Couple, Europe, Groups

  1975 On Britain's entry into the EEC, in the Sunday Times, 27 Apr.

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• Young love is so ridiculous, as is middle-aged and old love. And it's also hilarious. When have you ever felt so vulnerable and wonderful and terrible at the same time?

  Grace Helbig

  Love Is, Young Love, Ridiculous

  Grace Helbig (2014). “Grace's Guide: The Art of Pretending to Be a Grown-up”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a job and desperately wanting to get out, a young person feeling the fire in the belly begin to grow cold. You may be insecure, inadequate, mistaken or potbellied. Death, panic, depression, and disillusionment may be near you. But you are not just that. You are accepted.' Never confuse your perception of yourself with the mystery that you really are accepted.

  Brennan Manning

  Jobs, Insecure, Men

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.19, Multnomah

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• Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.

  Martha Beck

  Coffee, Elderly, Middle

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• Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, Kings, People

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.142, Penguin

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• As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father.

  Mason Cooley

  Children, Father, Childhood

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• A new study suggests that middle-aged adults who go on periodic drinking binges may face a heightened risk of dementia later on in life. The study is entitled, 'National Strategy for Victory in Iraq.'

  Tina Fey

  Drinking, Iraq, Risk

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• The new supplants the old. Yet men's minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities and scholars in the social sciences is important. It is equally important to devise ways and means for aiding the middle-aged and old to reexamine hang-over unscientific doctrines and ideas in the light of recent discovery and research.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Education, Truth, Mean

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• It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of course, mean this in any political-party sense, but rather in a willingness to struggle for those things in which we passionately believe. Social activism and the struggle for social justice are often thought of as the natural activities of the young but not of the middle-aged or the elderly. In fact, I don't think this was ever true.

  Margaret Laurence

  Party, Believe, Struggle

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• 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.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Travel, Couple, Home

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• All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to being noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous.

  Doris Lessing

  Women, People, Focus

  "An Uncommon Scold". Book by Abby Adams, 1989.

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