Quotations About Middle Age

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time catches up with Mother Nature.
- Harold Coffin

Middle age is when your classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
- Bennett Cerf

Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier.
- Dan Bennett

Middle Age: When you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
- Georges Clemenceau

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of somene else.
- Ogden Nash

The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength.
Margaret Oliphant

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
- Oscar Wilde

A birthday:—and now a day that rose with much of hope, with meaning rife— A thoughtful day from dawn to close: The middle day of human life.
- Jean Ingelow

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 hope its own desires.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
- Franklin Pierce Adams

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.
- William Feather