In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I respected authority, then as a teenager I gave none; in middle age I expected it; now… — Horace Dyer Copy Share Image
Since the Middle Ages, people have been writing about angels. Angelology was actually at one point a scholastic discipline. — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages, only then will Israel be calm for the… — Michael Ben-Ari Copy Share Image
The Jews were the money-lenders of the Middle Ages so there's a stereotype of the slightly or more than slightly dishonest business… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
At the end of the Middle Ages, nobody would ever have expected the monasteries to vanish from the scene within a generation… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
This (Vietnam) was a land of rebellious barons. It was like Europe in the Middle Ages. But what were the Americans doing… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The reason the middle section switches to third person is, well, this is middle age. This is the part in her life… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
“The mass of the population before the modern era rarely ate meat as the mass of the peasantry rarely do in underdeveloped… — Malcolm Hamilton Copy Share Image
During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Those who professed themselves unable to believe in the reality of human progress ought to cheer themselves up, as the students under… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Perhaps the main, as well as the least obvious, achievement of the Middle Ages, was the creation of the experimental spirit, or… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work; but whereas the composer… — Harry S. Broudy Copy Share Image
“This is an instance of the truism that, when switching from one recording medium to another, there is always a considerable data… — Sara Ayad Copy Share Image
“In my tradition, God revealed Himself in words and lives in stories and, no, you cannot touch or even see Him. The… — Jonathan Rosen Copy Share Image
Now the code of life of the High Middle Ages said something entirely opposite to this: that it was precisely lack of… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
“The hour between dog and wolf, that is, dusk, when the two can’t be distinguished from each other, suggests a lot of… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Saint Anthony's medallions are very powerful objects. Witches and warlocks used them in the Middle Ages, usually if they were traveling. You… — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Every other man spoke a language entirely his own, which he had figured out by private thinking; he had his own ideas… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“And confronting these men, wild and terrible as we agree that they were, there were men of quite another kind, smiling and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The Eugenic optimism seems to partake generally of the nature of that dazzled and confused confidence, so common in private theatricals, that… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth; there are also corresponding stages in the growth of… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
“Clearly, imagining cannot be expected to mean exactly the same thing today as it did in the Middle Ages or antiquity. For… — Richard Kearney Copy Share Image
Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Middle Age connotes fat, cancer, bad musical taste, and death. It conjures up a commuter in the sixties going to a Neil… — Marilyn Suzanne Miller Copy Share Image
I have enormous respect for Derek Parfit, although he seems to me bound within an unfortunate philosophical tradition - rather like the… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Men's gender problems cause them a lot of suffering. There is a massive spiking suicide rate in middle age for men and… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I really think that people have to think safety; taking risks for higher yield is a bad idea once you're in late… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
