Middle age is when you go to bed at night and hope you feel better in the morning. Old age is when… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
It seems to me that since the Middle Ages (it's not a Reformation thing), all that stuff about Jews and Gentiles coming… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion. — Robert Runcie Copy Share Image
The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live… — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
“But if you cannot at once laugh at a thing or believe in it, you have no business in the Middle Ages.… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous… — John Shimkus Copy Share Image
Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with… — Bertha von Suttner Copy Share Image
“As a counterbalance to the list of seven deadly sins, the church in the Middle Ages came up with a list of… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Had today's technophobic zealots [environmental activists] been in charge in previous centuries, we would have to roll human progress back to the… — Paul Driessen Copy Share Image
As we reach midlife in the middle thirties or early forties, we are not prepared for the idea that time can run… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
Until the middle of the nineteenth century, Biarritz was a community of whalers. During the Middle Ages, it had grown from a… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
I did a research assignment on life in the Middle Ages only last year. I found the era fascinating, all that chivalry… — Marianne Curley Copy Share Image
We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
But I'll never see any of those fish," said Maxie."Or those whales. Or any lions or tigers. I'm never going to set… — Charlie Higson Copy Share Image
Beautiful city! . . . spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“The pulse of India throbs in the music and the dance-drama. It is in the realm of living that India exposes herself,… — Peggy Holroyde Copy Share Image
“The times do not call for grassroots political activism, as if the next election might be enough to reverse a massive cultural… — Paul D. Miller Copy Share Image
“Zeitgeist is a German word that means “spirit of the age.” The zeitgeist of Periclean Athens was self-knowledge (supremely embodied in the… — Louis A. Markos Copy Share Image
“...when today as believers in our age we hear it said, a little enviously perhaps, that in the Middle Ages everyone without… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“I see the last two millennia as laid out in columns, like a reverse ledger sheet. It's as if I'm standing at… — Claudia Hammond Copy Share Image
I saw in 'the wandering Jew' the personification of the Jewish people, exiled in the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, they are once again… — George Sand Copy Share Image
“In a matter of a moment the amount of sand in the upper part of the hour-glass had dwindled dramatically, the tiny… — Jose Saragamo Copy Share Image
“Slavery may change its form or its name—its essence remains the same. Its essence may be expressed in these words: to be… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today. — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
Every woman dreams of love. When she is young she prays she will find it. When she is middle aged she hopes… — Barbara Cartland Copy Share Image
During the Middle Ages, probably one of the biggest mistakes was not putting on your armor because you were "just going down… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages could not Christians be united, nowadays, it is Europe that can not be united. As I see it,… — Mattias Konradsson Copy Share Image
People who are always praising the past And especially the time of faith as best Ought to go and live in the… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
“During the Middle Ages some weddings were even held in cemeteries, since it was believed the life-affirming act of marriage could halt… — Anita Diamant Copy Share Image
Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Last night was Super Tuesday - a 10-state GOP Primary orgy. A big, sweaty pile of lever-yankin Republican voters. And like most… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“And so it was that the Poet, through an excess of theological refinement, was unable to satisfy his coarse carnal passion.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Identifying as a Pagan, feminist, Witch, and anarchist is possibly a way to alarm great segments of the general public, but at… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
“As the Moslems advanced into India native culture receded farther and farther south; and towards the end of these Middle Ages the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
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