#middle age

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

— Doris Day

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

— Francis Bacon

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

— Harold Coffin

#awkward #catching #father #father time #middle

I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts. ↗

— Umberto Eco

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The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

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Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

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Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. ↗

— Ogden Nash

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

— Irvin S. Cobb

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

— Orson Welles

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The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof. ↗

— Anzia Yezierska

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