Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middle of a room where it's like a somber fellow making electronic judgments on you.
There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.
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.
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.