Middle ages Quotes · Page 4

The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.

— Harold Innis

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

— Tucker Carlson

I'm the woman who used to think that middle-age spread was a cocktail dip.

— Phyllis Diller

Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age.

— Mason Cooley

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.

— Horatio Alger

Middle-aged adolescents are a libel on the real thing.

— Mason Cooley

Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Now, in my middle age, about nineteen in the head I'd say, I am rowing, I am rowing.

— Anne Sexton

I did not intend to write a funny book, at first. I did not know I was a humorist. I have never…

— Jerome K. Jerome

The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages.

— Bill Gates

I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad…

— Stephen Spender

I couldn't imagine anything more horrifying than three middle aged men trying to pretend that 'Black Dog' is still significant. It's inappropriate.

— Robert Plant

We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol…

— Roger Revelle

At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle…

— John Travolta

It's like suddenly in the Middle Ages, people figured men should be in charge of women's bodies since they were in charge…

— Inga Muscio

The term middle-aged, invented by Descartes, comes from the Latin, medeus, meaning 'not really old' and ageis, meaning 'if you look at…

— Marilyn Suzanne Miller

“People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They…

— Heather O'Neill

We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in…

— Anais Nin

The greatest tragedy in the history of Christianity was neither the Crusades nor the Reformation nor the Inquisition, but rather the split…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

I don't think that we are completely dominated by what we have inherited from the past, but it is the case that…

— Mary Beard

Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but,…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

In Iran, the women are like Italian women, they rule the house inside. But it's full of life. The history is very…

— Juliette Binoche

In western civilization, the period ruled by mysticism is known as the 'Dark Ages' and the 'Middle Ages'. I will assume that…

— Ayn Rand

“The bibliographer in the digital age returns to the revelatory practice of her medieval forebears. Librarians, like those scribes of the Middle…

— Matthew Battles

“Marriage," Swan repeated, marveling at the word. To her it was a concept from the Middle Ages, from old Earth--an idea with…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did…

— Philip Khuri Hitti

“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one…

— Daphne du Maurier

“She pinched her nose against the stench as I squirted oil of vitriol around the door. Vaporous tendrils curled from the seams.…

— Rick Riordan

“must have saffron to colour the warden pies; mace; dates?— none, that’s out of my note; nutmegs, seven; a race or two…

— Francine Segan

“Lancelot and Guenever were sitting at the solar window. An observer of the present day, who knew the Arthurian legend only from…

— T.H. White

“It's for us that the University exists, for the dispossessed of the world; not for the students, not for the selfless pursuit…

— John Williams

“Terrorists are like a fly that tries to destroy a china shop. The fly is so weak that it cannot budge even…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Middle age is when you get in the car and immediately change the radio station.

— Patricia Penton Leimbach

You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up.

— Bob Hope

Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon.

— Richard Nelson Bolles

In middle age, going naked contributes little to public enjoyment.

— Mason Cooley

“Senescence begins And middle-age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends”

— Ogden Nash

During the Middle Ages, Jews were members of a semi-independent polity within a larger polity.

— David Novak

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.

— Gerald Brenan

You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution

— Abraham Lincoln