Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead. Henry David Thoreau
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious. P. G. Wodehouse
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. Eleanor Roosevelt
Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school. Laurie Halse Anderson
Ramadan typically brings a spike in violence in Middle East. I get grumpy when I don't eat - but I don't blow things up. Religion of peace? Katie Hopkins