Middle Aged Quotes - Page 5

• Don't seek approval. This may be the toughest suggestion for you to follow -- and the most important. Whether you'te a teenager seeking approval from your peers, a middle-aged parent seeking the approval of your kids, or a man or woman seeking the approval of a partner, it all amounts to the same thing. You're giving your personal power away every time you seek validation from someone else for who you are.

  T. J. MacGregor

  Teenager, Kids, Men

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• Fate isn't some middle-aged man with a squint who won't recognize you if you change your clothes.

  Meg Rosoff

  Fate, Men, Clothes

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• Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions a youth about her parents as the seemingly inhumane way they treat her grandparents.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Pride, Compassion, Elderly

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• There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.

  Confucius

  Life, Passion, Men

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• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion. Fifty years on, I don't associate the book with anything that ever happened to me, save for one wordless encounter at London airport when a worn-out, middle-aged military kind of man in a stained raincoat slammed a handful of mixed foreign change on to the bar and in gritty Irish accents ordered himself as much Scotch as it would buy. In that moment, Alec Leamas was born. Or so my memory, not always a reliable informant, tells me.

  John le Carre

  Memories, Military, Book

  "John le Carré: 'I was a secret even to myself'". www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2013.

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• It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn of youth. If we never cared for little children before, we delight to see them roll in the grass over which we hobble on crutches. The grandsire turns wearily from his middle-aged, careworn son, to listen with infant laugh to the prattle of an infant grandchild. It is the old who plant young trees; it is the old who are most saddened by the autumn; and feel most delight in the returning spring.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Children, Spring, Autumn

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• When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we weren't that wrong. Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young erode. We end up all belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself.

  Julian Barnes

  Age, Looks, Fifty

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• A middle-aged cat will often play as unreservedly as a kitten, though he knows perfectly well it is only a game.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Cat, Games, Play

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• The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand.

  Arnold Ross

  Teaching, Men, Taught

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• Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman.

  Martha Stewart

  Revenge, Middle

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• I'm just happy being dumpy. Dumpy, fat and middle-aged.

  Steven Morrissey

  Memorable, Middle, Fats

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• I suppose middle-aged love is interesting for middle-aged people.

  Phyllis Logan

  Love Is, Interesting, People

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• I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men.

  Bob Hoskins

  Character, Men, Historical

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• I'm just a loud-mouthed middle-aged colored lady with a fused spine and three feet of intestines missing and a lot of people think I'm crazy. Maybe you do too, but I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. The mystery to me is why more people aren't like me.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Crazy, Thinking, Feet

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Journey, Shadow

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• Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case of the middle aged, and unseemly in the old.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sex, Should Have, Desire

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Ian Hunter (2003). “The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge”, p.75, Regent College Publishing

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• It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Optimism, Pessimism, Middle

  'Beasts and Super-Beasts' (1914) 'The Byzantine Omelette'

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• If you're ever feeling a lack of middle-aged white men, just pop into the Capitol. Not so much the House of Representatives, which has a bit more color and texture, but the Senate -- jeez. Yes, let's have more testosterone running the country. Maximum Ride, School's Out--Forever

  James Patterson

  Running, Country, School

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• I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.

  Sting

  Hate, Rocks, Rock Music

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• There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

  John Updike

  Men, Goes On, Middle

  1986 In the New York Times, 24 Mar.

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• I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.

  Jacki Weaver

  Sweet, Children, Gay

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

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• The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weaker.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Believe, America, People

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor”, p.195, Random House

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• A middle-aged woman who looked like someone's cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a talkshow host with an orange face... It didn't add up. Suicide wasn't invented for people like this. It was invented for people like Virginia Woolf and Nick Drake. And Me. Suicide was supposed to be cool.

  Nick Hornby

  Suicide, Virginia, Orange

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• As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers for the middle-aged or elderly writer whose thoughts should more properly be turned to graver matters, occupying himself with the trivial concerns of imaginary people.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Real, Men, Occupy Yourself

  "Cakes And Ale".

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• Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people. . . . Fennel . . . smelling of changes to come.

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Average, People, Spices

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1997). “The Mistress of Spices”, Doubleday

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