Middle ages Quotes

The middle years of life come on like thunder.

— Nellie L. McClung

“I know Verona as I do my own body.”

— Lois Leveen

“How much easier it is to be poor than rich.”

— Lois Leveen

Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.

— Laurence J. Peter

I'm my age and I feel glorious.

— Betty Friedan

God, middle age is an unending insult.

— Dorothea Benton Frank

Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.

— John Towner Williams

Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.

— Elliot Paul

Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.

— Robert Lowell

In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.

— Marshall McLuhan

You know you're getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

— Joan Rivers

The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.

— Marilyn vos Savant

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.

— Richard Armour

Middle age is when, whenever you go on holiday, you pack a sweater.

— Denis Norden

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by…

— Anne Bradstreet

The genius of 'Game of Thrones' is that in this rich imagining of a world redolent of the medieval, the rules of…

— Julia Gillard

When you approach middle age, lots of stuff happens. Your body is aging, you're watching people around you get sick, you're watching…

— Charlie Kaufman

One of the great sadnesses of my life, as I take stock at middle age, is the sense that the adventure largely…

— Jon Weisman

The 'Middle Ages/Dark Ages' were of course no such thing. Achievement in the Arabian crescent was sensational then.

— Bettany Hughes

But in the Middle Ages people were convinced there were witches. They looked for them and they certainly found them.

— Hans Blix

Instead of facing a crisis as I approached middle age, I discovered that a new and better life lay before me. I…

— Bob Buford

I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age,…

— Toni Morrison

When I rather guiltily read the books on which the TV series 'Game Of Thrones' is based, I was struck by one…

— Peter Hitchens

“The middle ages did not care much for alphabetical order, because they were committed to rational order. To the medieval mind, the…

— Matthew Battles

“Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial…

— Will Durant

In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the…

— Thomas Jefferson

The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Particularly telling are civilisation-style strategy games, such as Minecraft, The Settlers of Catan or Sid Meier’s Civilization. The game may be set…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior…

— Ayn Rand

Until the end of the Middle Ages, and in many cases afterwards too, in order to obtain initiation in a trade of…

— Philippe Aries

“In the 18th century, a revolution in thought, known as the Enlightenment, dragged us away from the superstition and brutality of the…

— Charlie Brooker

I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately…

— George F. Kennan

“The undersigned pointed out that nothing was required of a pastor except that he intimate in church at the dead man's bier…

— Halldór Laxness

There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about…

— Dan Chaon

“Suppose that a great commotion arises in the street about something, let us say a lamp-post, which many influential persons desire to…

— G.K. Chesterton

“The Angevin country begins between Normandy and Brittainy and continues down through Maine and Anjou. In the Middle Ages, this fair and…

— Thomas B. Costain

“When we recall the great influence which Spenser's poetry has exerted on English poets who have lived and written since his day,…

— Owen Barfield

“rosticceria . . . cuddriruni . . . arancini supplì: A rosticceria is a take-out restaurant serving mostly roast meats; cuddriruni is a Sicilian sort of focaccia, served…

— Andrea Camilleri