Mittleres Alter / Middle Age Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Mittleres Alter / Middle Age:

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. Doris Day

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

Gore Vidal

American nuclear reactors are well into middle age. The median age of an operating reactor in the U.S. is 34 years, placing start-up in midst of the Carter administration.

Bill Dedman

As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.

Julie Burchill

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Lillian Gordy Carter

Middle -age is the time of life, that a man first notices - in his wife.

Richard Armour

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

E. Joseph Cossman

By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.

Linus Pauling

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

Margaret Mead

To be is to do.

Immanuel Kant

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Don Marquis

I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.

Julie Burchill

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

Anne Bradstreet

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.

Gerald Brenan

I was well into middle age when one of my children, then in the second grade, was found to be dyslexic. I had never known the name for it, but I recognized immediately that the symptoms were also mine.

Philip Schultz

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

Irvin S. Cobb

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

Bennett Cerf

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

Harold Coffin

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Francis Bacon

As any of us approaches middle age, we inevitably come up against our limitations: the realization that certain dearly-held fantasies may not be realized; that circumstances have thwarted us; that even with intention and will we may not be able to set our ship back on the course we'd planned.

Claire Messud

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

Ogden Nash

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.

Earl Wilson

You find yourself approaching middle age, playing another scuzzy rock club.

Juliana Hatfield

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Bob Hope

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

Doris Day

There's no socially acceptable middle age.

Thomas Jane

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

Mason Cooley

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

Andre Gide

We in middle age require adventure.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

Mason Cooley

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

Anne Tyler

The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'.

June Whitfield

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Bill Vaughan

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

Orson Welles

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.

James Ellroy