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Letter "M" » middle-aged man
«Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.»
«Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Age
| Keywords:
as good as, middle-aged man, middle age, week
«Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.»
Author: Kin Hubbard
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
aged, boys, Boys Will Be Boys, middle-aged, middle-aged man
«A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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aged, arrested, arrested development, cocoon, cocoons, continuing, convention, middle-aged, middle-aged man, muffle, muffled, muffling, on the contrary
«Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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Wives
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companions, middle-aged man, middle age, mistresses, nurses, wives
«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
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Youth
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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
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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aged, at length, concludes, length, materials, middle-aged, middle-aged man, palace, perchance, temple, woodshed
«Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
attempts, deceives, fortunes, middle-aged man
«There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.»
Author: John Updike
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
bring off, crystallization, middle-aged man, The Young Man
«Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is - I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at - a period something like a printed page, b»
Author: Lord Byron
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
Age of Man, barbarous, hover, middle-aged man, printed, sage, scarce
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