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.