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Letter "M" » middle-aged
«You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.»
«The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.»
«Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
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Critic,
Essayist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Youth
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Keywords:
adventures,
aged,
an episode,
end of the world,
episode,
episodes,
hopeless,
hoping,
middle-aged,
middle-aged man,
survives
«The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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Keywords:
aged,
at length,
concludes,
length,
materials,
middle-aged,
middle-aged man,
palace,
perchance,
temple,
woodshed
«The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Age,
Birthday,
Change
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Keywords:
aged,
middle-aged,
middle,
middles,
Middle way,
suspect,
young
«Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
aged,
Die in,
exile,
exiled,
exiles,
lumber,
lumbering,
lumbers,
lumber room,
middle-aged,
mortgage,
mortgaged,
mortgages,
mortgaging,
The Exile,
The Lord of,
waiting room
«What makes him think a middle aged actor [Clint Eastwood], who's played with a chimp, could have a future in politics?»