#middle age

Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants. ↗

— John Shimkus

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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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The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

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Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age. ↗

— Candice Bergen

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Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. ↗

— William Feather

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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

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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. ↗