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middle age Definition

middle age

noun

the time of life between youth and old age: now usually the years from about 40 to about 65

middle age Synonyms

middle age

n.

adulthood, prime, maturity, wrong side of forty*; see majority 2.

middle-age Quotes

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

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

—Day, Doris originally Doris Kappelhoff

Nature is as wasteful of promising young men as she is of fish-spawn. It's not just getting them killed in wars: mere middle age snuffs out ten times more talent than ever wars and sudden death do.

—Hughes, Richard Arthur Warren

In the youth of a state arms do flourish; in the middle age of a state, learning; and then both of them together for a time; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

I have the reputation of having read all of Henry James, which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.

—Thurber,James Grover

One of the pleasures of middle age isto find out that one right, and that one was much righter than one knew at say17 or 23.

—Pound, Ezra Loomis