#middle age

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

— Orson Welles

#age #class #enemy #life #middle

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

— June Whitfield

#ages #look #man #middle #middle age

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

— Andre Gide

#arrive #cross #frenchman #having #honor

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

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles. ↗

— Don Marquis

#best #fun #his #how #learned

The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#ages #been #boards #confidant #enough

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#attribute #entirely #i #men #middle

Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#almost #belonged #deeply #equally #future

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#ages #atmosphere #dark #later #middle

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

— Doris Day

#about #frightening #grow #knowledge #middle