Middle-aged Quotes

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

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

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

I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that's become apparent in recent years.

It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well.

Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

I'm officially middle-aged. I don't need drugs anymore, thank God. I can get the same effect just by standing up real fast.