Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.

As you got older, and felt yourself to be at the centre of your time, and not at a point in its circumference, as you felt when you were little, you were seized with a sort of shuddering.

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

Fear comes with middle age.

I'm my age and I feel glorious.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.

Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

Middle age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired.

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

After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper class.

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

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

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