MidLife Crisis Quotes

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

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it.
Jules Renard

Mid life, a time to simplify your life and enjoy living!
Catherine Pulsifer

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

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
Agatha Christie, An Autobiography

Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.
Jane E. Brody

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Many peoples' tombstones should read 'Died at 30, burried at 60.'
Nicholas Murray Butler

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

There is a marked increase in the death rate between the ages of 35 to 40 for employed men, apparently as a result of this 'midlife crisis'.
Gail Sheehy

- The worst thing about a mid life crisis ?
- You are only half way through all the shit that life's gonna throw at you.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time catches up with Mother Nature.
Harold Coffin

Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire.
Joseph Addison

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
Helen Hayes

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
Daniel Defoe

Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life. But of course, like autumn, it doesn't last.
C.S. Lewis

Birthday Quotes

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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton

The Best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
H. V. Prochnow

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me. Ellen Glasgow

Sing a song of BirthdaysFull of fun and cheerAnd may you keep on having themFor many a happy year.
Anonymous

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty, but it's up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. - Coco Chanel

Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs.
Anon

It takes a long time to grow young.
Pablo Picasso

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. Oscar Wilde

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
English Proverb

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
Rainer Maria Rilke

It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.
Albert Schweitezer

PLeas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind. Alexander Pope

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
Virginia Woolf

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
Fred Astaire


Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it. - Rudyard Kipling
It is better to wear out than to rust out. - Bishop Richard Cumberland

There was a star danced, and under that was I born. - William Shakespeare

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana

When you turn thirty, a whole new thing happens: you see yourself acting like you parents. - Blair Sabol

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty. - Georges Clemenceau





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