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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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Life
Morning
Age
Youth
See
Shadows
Entirely
Disappear
Almost
Most
Period
Frequently
Passions
Begun
Midday
Middle
Middle Age
Which
Happiest
Large
Evening
Eager
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.
Ogden Nash
Hope
Home
You
Age
Telephone
Rings
Sitting
Middle
Middle Age
Saturday
Saturday Night
Night
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Francis Bacon
Age
Women
Old
Men
Young
Nurses
Mistresses
Wives
Middle
Middle Age
Companions
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Doris Day
Knowledge
You
Age
Out
About
Frightening
Middle
Middle Age
Really
Grow
Thing
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.
Margaret Mead
Work
Learning
Age
Old
Old Age
Arbitrary
Put
False
Childhood
Middle
Middle Age
Regrets
Play
Utterly
Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
Bennett Cerf
You
Age
Old
Recognize
Classmates
Wrinkled
Bald
Middle
Middle Age
Grey
Your
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
Ogden Nash
You
Age
People
Met
Every
Else
Meet
Someone
Reminds
New
Person
So Many People
Middle
Middle Age
Many
There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and 'how well you look'.
Nelson Rockefeller
Life
You
Age
Youth
Three
Look
Periods
Well
How
Middle
Middle Age
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
William Feather
Good
Age
Example
Setting
Out
Takes
Middle
Middle Age
Children
Your
Fun
Good Example
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
You
Age
Youth
Year
Late
Stay
Allowed
New
Forced
Up
Middle
Middle Age
Eve
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
E. Joseph Cossman
Change
Age
Mind
Broad
Narrow
Waist
Begin
Middle
Middle Age
Places
Your
By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.
Linus Pauling
Life
You
Age
Youth
Few
Believe
Other
Thirty-Five
Nutrients
Vitamins
Following
Proper
Well-Being
Practices
Healthful
Years
Middle
Middle Age
Your
Even
Twenty-Five
Extend
The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'.
June Whitfield
You
Man
Age
Youth
Word
Three
Look
Well
Middle
Middle Age
Ages
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
Strength
School Days
Age
Complicated
School
Power
Doubt
Late
Our
Indeed
No Doubt
Proportion
Days
Exercise
Female
Brain
Brain Power
Very
Improves
Just
Middle
Middle Age
Bodily
Use
Large
Population
Now
Lives
Grows
Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.
Earl Wilson
You
Age
Think
Later
Sooner
Expect
Than
Middle
Middle Age
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
Gore Vidal
Age
Sex
Takes
Middle
Middle Age
Place
Litigation
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
Harold Coffin
Time
Nature
Age
Mother
Father
Starts
Father Time
Catching
Period
Mother Nature
Up
Middle
Middle Age
Awkward
American nuclear reactors are well into middle age. The median age of an operating reactor in the U.S. is 34 years, placing start-up in midst of the Carter administration.
Bill Dedman
Age
Administration
Carter
Well
Operating
Years
American
Middle
Middle Age
Placing
Midst
Median
Nuclear
Start-Up
We in middle age require adventure.
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
Age
Adventure
Middle
Middle Age
Require
In 'The Big Chill,' those characters are in middle age, thinking, 'Oh, God, I've turned into my parents. I've failed.' And in 'Beside Still Waters,' we're showing the struggles of people who actually want to be like their parents and feel they can't live up to their heights.
Chris Lowell
God
Age
People
Chill
Parents
Big
Heights
Live
Thinking
Waters
Those
Characters
Beside
Struggles
Failed
Feel
Like
Still
Up
Oh
Oh God
Middle
Middle Age
Want
Turned
Who
Showing
Actually
As any of us approaches middle age, we inevitably come up against our limitations: the realization that certain dearly-held fantasies may not be realized; that circumstances have thwarted us; that even with intention and will we may not be able to set our ship back on the course we'd planned.
Claire Messud
Age
Will
Approaches
Back
Our
Circumstances
Able
Thwarted
Come
Course
Limitations
Inevitably
Ship
Up
Any
May
Intention
Middle
Middle Age
Against
Fantasies
Realization
Realized
Us
Certain
Planned
Even
Set
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
Age
Spite
Troubles
Likely
Learned
Said
How
His
Person
Middle
Middle Age
Middle-Aged
Little
Fun
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
You
Change
Age
Young
Nice
Tells
About
Nobody
Middle
Being
Middle Age
Many
Ever
Things
It's kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on a marriage and a story of two people past middle age.
Frances McDormand
Woman
Age
Marriage
People
Past
Tell
Kind
Develop
Middle
Middle Age
Movie
Story
Subversive
Certain
Certain Age
Act
Based
Two
Two People
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Franklin Pierce Adams
You
Age
Old
Young
Too
Rush
Net
Take
Occurs
Up
Middle
Middle Age
Golf
Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Franklin Pierce Adams
You
Age
Old
Young
Too
Exact
Rush
Net
Point
Take
Dead
Occurs
Years
Discovered
Years Ago
Up
Middle
Middle Age
Golf
Center
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