Middle Aged Quotes - Page 3

• Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Danger, Middle

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• Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who's just getting started.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Kids, Men, Years

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• Ask any Ferrari, Porsche or Ray-Ban salesperson about their average customer and you will very likely hear that he is not, as the adverts would have us believe, a virile young footballer with shiny hair, a rippling six pack and a trouser pouch like a new punch bag. He is, in fact, a middle-aged bloke wearing more chins than he started life with and carrying the clear evidence of forty years of beer and pies slung across his midriff.

  Richard Hammond

  Believe, Beer, Pie

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• I don't have any children; I have four middle-aged people.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Children, People, Four

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• When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

  Elmer Davis

  Men, Half, Telling The Truth

  On not being Dead, as Reported

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• On stage, I'm this figure, this actor, who does things that people aren't used to seeing and I relish in that reaction. In real life, though, I play golf, I shop and I walk around with no makeup on and my hair in a ponytail. I may not be the typical middle-aged Joe, but I'm closer to normal than you think.

  Alice Cooper

  Real, Golf, Makeup

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am a struggling writer. A middle-aged man with two little kids and I'm just trying to earn a living. So buy this book - or my kids will have to go to foster care.

  Christopher Darden

  Struggle, Book, Kids

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• Hostility to youth is the worst vice of the middle-aged.

  J. A. Spender

  Vices, Youth, Middle

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• Paste Magazine needs to stay in business! It's the first non-sensational quality music and film publication that doesn't only attempt to appeal to middle-aged male Bob Dylan completionists! And there are still many of us who love to pick up a print magazine instead of going online.

  Nina Persson

  Quality, Males, Needs

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• I got booted out third, but to me [Last Comic Standing] was a lot like Rambo II...I don't really remember much...there was rats, people bombing, screaming, yelling, and a middle aged guy with a shaved chest got beat by somebody from the Viet Cong.

  Rob Cantrell

  Yelling, People, Guy

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• Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.

  Malcolm X

  Children, Fear, Trying

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.472, Ballantine Books

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• You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I’m sure you’ll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never your problem, sweetie. You have a better chance of making this work than most forty-year-olds I know. My little middle-aged child. Luckily, you seem to have found another old soul.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Children, Regret, Mistake

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• After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.

  Anne Lamott

  Kids, Soul, Middle

  Anne Lamott (1986). “Joe Jones”, Ballantine Books

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• There were days - she could remember this - when Henry would hold her hand as they walked home, middle-aged people, in their prime. Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it. But she had that memory now, of something healthy and pure.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Memories, Live Life, Home

  Elizabeth Strout (2008). “Olive Kitteridge: Fiction”, p.162, Random House

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• Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Democracies Have, Lust, Democracy

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.14, Verso

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• He looked like those paintings of baby angels - what do you call them, hubbubs? No cherubs. That's it. He looked like a cherub who'd turned middle-aged in a trailer park.

  Rick Riordan

  Baby, Angel, Parks

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• After a childhood of hungering to be an adult, my hunger had passed. Unexpected fates had begun to catch my notice. These middle-aged women seemed very tired to me, as if hope had been wrung out of them and replaced with a deathly, walking sort of sleep.

  Lorrie Moore

  Tired, Sleep, Fate

  Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.36, Vintage

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• Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and innocence. On the ground are the crystals of the frozen first breaths of babies, and those of the last gasps of the dying.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Baby, Judging, Guilt

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

  Barry Cryer

  Funny, Men, Years

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• I dress up as a middle-aged prostitute and do a game show.

  Paul O'Grady

  Games, Dresses, Middle

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• Middle-aged women on telly is a bit of a hot topic - before, we were 27 to 37, and now we're 40 to 50. You do notice as you get older... you go past 35, and suddenly you're playing baddies.

  Sally Phillips

  Past, Hot, Topics

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• He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.

  Herbert Gold

  Hurt, Children, Childhood

  Herbert Gold (2017). “The Age of Happy Problems”, p.78, Routledge

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• I keep on reading the Morning Star newspaper to see if there's any hope, but it seems to be in the 19th century; it seems to be written for dropped-out, middle-aged liberals.

  John Lennon

  Morning, Stars, Reading

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I think it's hilarious when middle-aged white men try to take themselves seriously. It makes me laugh.

  Chris Bauer

  Thinking, Men, White Man

  Source: collider.com

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• Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.

  Kate Smith

  Prejudice, Opinion, Defeat

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