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«The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.»
«There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.»
Author: Edward Hoagland
| Keywords:
absorbing, adolescence, fugue, fugues, height, In the City, middle age, retrenchment, retrenchments, sullen, The City
«Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age»
«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.»
Author: Thomas Arnold
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begun, cooled, disappear, eager, frequently, happiest, infirmities, midday, middle age, of age, The Shadows
«Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.»
«Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego»
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
| About:
Age
| Keywords:
accumulations, ambition, ego, material, middle, middle age, period, possessions, shedding, shell, shells
«The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.»
«The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.»
«Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Wives
| Keywords:
companions, middle-aged man, middle age, mistresses, nurses, wives
«When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. In other words, I don't improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
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assured, bum, bummed, bums, described, eight, fever, fifty-eight, incurable, incurables, in other words, itch, itched, itches, itching, mature, maturity, middle age, prescribed, prescribes, remedy, senility, someplace, The Job, The Urge, urge, worked
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