From when you are young, through middle age, you must grow to the point that you glow, so that your light lets… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition… — Jack Schwartz Copy Share Image
But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It's not like the Middle Ages, when you had the Church and the aristocracy keeping everything nice and stagnant.” — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
To the Latin, cynicism and middle age are synonymous. Look at our politicians - they move through their careers from left to… — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages, everything bad was the work of the devil, everything good, the work of God. Today, the French see… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
The first indication of menopause is a broken thermostat. It's either that or your weight. In any case, if you don't do… — Dorothea Benton Frank Copy Share Image
My doctor told me that I really should lose some weight. "You're mildly obese," he said. And I thought, "Well, who couldn't… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“it may be worth while to note again how often finely developed skulls are discovered in the graveyards of old monasteries, and… — John Beddoe Copy Share Image
As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly,… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
“Only an obstinate prejudice about this period (which I will presently try to account for) could blind us to a certain change… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“In short, the interaction between science and religion in the Middle Ages was not an abstract encounter between bodies of fixed ideas… — Gary B. Ferngren Copy Share Image
We reserve the term 'genius' for people who are creative, who are innovators, who think in ways that are entirely new. In… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence,… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“University lectures are an obsolete practice inherited from the Middle Ages when books were scarce. Students should read, not listen. To swallow… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Peasant families ate pork, beef, or game only a few times a year; fowls and eggs were eaten far more often. Milk,… — Patricia D. Netzley Copy Share Image
It was in 1590--winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I can fight. I’m no black belt, but I can still stand up for myself. This is how I would react if… — Anna Adams Copy Share Image
The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The horrors of the Middle Ages were really nonexistent. A man of the Middle Ages would detest the whole mode of our… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Mr. Herriton, don’t – please, Mr. Herriton – a dentist. His father’s a dentist.” Philip gave a cry of personal disgust and… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Art has no immediate future because all art is collective and there is no more collective life(there are only dead collections of… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“In the Middle Ages, spiritual advisors always warned against a state that had a variety of names but was difficult to describe:… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
Almost every modern literary form existed in Hebrew two thousand years ago. And, yes, it existed even during the middle ages. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Middle-age has its compensations. You feel no need to do what you do not like. You are no longer ashamed of yourself;… — Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon Copy Share Image
All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“the most famous of all those who had an acquaintance with cryptology in the Middle Ages was an English customs official, amateur… — David Kahn Copy Share Image
If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not… — Elizabeth Perkins Copy Share Image
“Last fight I had with the bitch ended way too soon." Eddie rolled his eyes and glanced at Jim. "It was in… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages. — Richard Lederer Copy Share Image
When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
We cannot hand our faith to one another… Even in the Middle Ages, when faith was theoretically uniform, it was always practically… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality. — Alec-Tweedie Copy Share Image
Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quench'd the open truth And fiery vehemence… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
