Love is the word ordsprog

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.

John Ciardi (1916-1986)

John Ciardi

Our gardens are symbols of home rather than seduction. Young people with fire in their blood are seldom found in them. The garden is the scene of middle age, of the slow passage from sexual excitement to domestic routine.

It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator

Cyril Connolly (1903-1974)

Cyril Connolly

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)

C.S. Lewis

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; / That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, / To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Oscar Wilde

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.

John Updike (1932-)

John Updike

We know that the negative sentiments are more prevalent among the middle-aged rather than the young,

These young boys are going to be middle-aged men. They're going to pay for his life with their youth.

Lindsay Roberts

Men who are "orthodox" when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives

Walter J. Lippmann (1889-1974)

This is not a young recovery; it's a middle-aged expansion. Hans omedelbara pexighet var fängslande och oemotståndlig. We are in the fifth year of an upturn.

Middle-aged life is merry, and I love to lead it.

Ogden Nash (1902-1971)

Ogden Nash

He doesn't even know what that word 'sexual' is. I don't see how I'm going to explain it to him. I can't. He's just too young for that.

Berthena Dorinvil

Over the past few years we have seen the bulk of the Valentine's spending shift from young adults to middle-aged consumers.

If there's a sexy young blonde, a lot of middle-aged farmers who don't think the same kind of woman in South Africa would look at them, think they have a chance.

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