#middle age

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

#age #being #change #ever #many

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#books #burned #burning #content #making

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

— Adolf Hitler

#generals #i #knights #like #middle

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

— Lillian Gordy Carter

#age #economical #guy #keeps #lights

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

— Bennett Cerf

#bald #classmates #grey #middle #middle age

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

#allowed #eve #forced #late #middle

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#bodily #brain #brain power #complicated #days

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#bother #calling #hear #life #middle

Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

#ago #been #being #civilization #difficulties

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

— Gerald Brenan

#death #does #even #middle #middle age