Brain power improves by brain use just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population from school days to late middle age now have very complicated lives indeed.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age making them less reactive and more patient and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who's just getting started.

As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well as it turned out I never wrote a great novel sadly and I never converted to Catholicism happily but I did do one thing he did. That is in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.

I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time such as kindness or cleverness.

What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperialism.

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us one saying 'Why not?' and the other 'Why bother?'

Elizabeth Peyton the artist known for tiny dazzling portraits of radiant youth is now painting tiny dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

Wives are young men's mistresses companions for middle age and old men's nurses.

Few women I fear have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood all the work into middle age and all the regrets into old age.

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.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.