Pastoral Resources

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of 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?"

We in middle age require adventure.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.

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.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

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.

Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age.

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and 'how well you look'.

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.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

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

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

Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.