Nikolai Gogol Quotes

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.

One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.'

It takes a long time to become young.

In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation.

Maybe at 87 you slow down a drop, but between 44 and 64, there is no difference.

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

I'm not much of a partier anymore. I enjoy clarity much more.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.

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.

Some feel old at 45.

I used to think 63 was old.

To learn is to be young, however old.

'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.

He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over his balding pate.

I like the word OLD. Not senior, that's for proms. Older? Older than whom? 'Old' is honorable and ripe

Middle age is when the best exercise is one of discretion.

Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.

Who is old enough to have learned from experience?

I'm the first to admit that I'm still pretty young.