Middle Age

1. “Mean of age object too much, consult to long, adventure too little, repent to soon and seldom drive business home in the full period, but content themselves a mediocrity of success”. [ FRANCIS BACON , “ Of Fortune.” Essays ”., (1625)]



2. “The years between fifty and seventy are hardest. You are always asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.” [ T.S. ELIOT , “ Time, Oct.23 1950]



3. “Whoever, in middle age, attempt to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten year’s of man’s life has its own fortune, its own hopes, its own desires.” [ GOETHE, Elective Affinities (1803)]



4. “Whenever a man’s friends begin to acompliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.” [ WASHINGTON IRVING , “ bachelors ”, Bracbridge Hall (1822)]



5. “When a middle aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.” [ELMER DAVIS , “ On Not Being Dead, As Reported ” By Elmer Davis . (1964)]



6. “The blush that flies at seventeen/ is fixed at forty nine.” [ RUDYARD KIPLING, “My Rival, “ Departmental Ditties . (1886)]



7. “Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little before they begin to decay.” [ OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. , “ THE Autocrat of the Breakfast Table ”., (1856)]



8. “Middle age is when you’re met so many/ people that every new person you/ meet reminds you of someone else.” [OGDEN NASH , “ Let’s Climb the Washington Monument Tonight ”., (1961)]