In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.
— John Knox
Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.
— Anonymous
Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle age; but never to ardent three-and-twenty in the fever of his first love.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.