Noun
a man who is roughly between 45 and 65 years old
Source: WordNetThere's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't. John Updike
[Among the Arapeh... both father and mother are held responsible for child care by the entire community...] If one comments upon a middle-aged man as good-looking, the people answer: 'Good-looking? Ye-e-e-s? But you should have seen him before he bore all those children. Margaret Mead
When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth. Elmer Davis
I am a struggling writer. A middle-aged man with two little kids and I'm just trying to earn a living. So buy this book - or my kids will have to go to foster care. Christopher Darden
The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older person seems so sure of it. I was interested in the way that many of us go through the whole of our lives staying with someone just out of complacency, because leaving isn't easy. Conor McPherson
The curse of the middle-aged man was knowing - or believing - that he'd told all he had to tell. Soon as you suspect that, you started wanting something, anything, to prove it wasn't so: and that's where the mistakes started, when the bad things happened. Michael Marshall Smith