Middle Aged Men Quotes

“The encrusted habits of long and self-indulgent bachelorhood were reasserting themselves.

[Edgar Hopkins]”
― R. C. Sherriff

“Nothing is more irritating to a middle-aged man than the dislocation of long-established habits.

[Edgar Hopkins]”
― R. C. Sherriff

“Perhaps 'defective' is a middle-aged person's default setting. Like the life cycle of a pear we go unripe, unripe, ripe, off. Except the men I meet seem to go adolescent, adolescent, adolescent, old, with no ripe bit, no wise bit, no emotional maturity before they wither.”
― Viv Albertine, To Throw Away Unopened

“These old women gossips quite forgot how charming certain middle-aged men had appeared when they were girls; those recollections having been effaced by more recent memories of how middle-aged men had appeared when they themselves were middle-aged.”
― T.S. Stribling, The Store