#middle age

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

— Francis Bacon

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

— Umberto Eco

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The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany. ↗

— George Santayana

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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young. ↗

— William Feather

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The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

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Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms. ↗

— Irvin S. Cobb

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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

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The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof. ↗

— Anzia Yezierska

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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

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

— Richard Hughes

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