Middle Age Quotes

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

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

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.

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.

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