You know you've reached middle age when you're cautioned to slow down by your doctor, instead of by the police. — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals. — Ralph Borsodi Copy Share Image
When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation...they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages. — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
When women reach the age of maturity, Mother Nature sometimes overworks their frustration to the point of irrationalism. Like themiddle-aged man...who finds… — Mark Hanna Copy Share Image
“Even for a well-to-do city family, making life comfortable is a problem. But arriving at a point where comfort becomes a problem… — Joseph Gies Copy Share Image
I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
There happened in the Middle Ages what has happened so often since then. Those who were the beneficiaries of the established order… — Henri Pirenne Copy Share Image
“A Jewish ethical treatise warns that a man must not express his anger by pounding on a book or by hitting people… — Joseph Gies Copy Share Image
The time passes so quickly during these full and active middle years that most people arrive at the end of middle age… — Robert J. Havighurst Copy Share Image
In the Middle Age, in Germany, if you wanted to learn addition and multiplication, you could go to any university. But if… — Israel Gelfand Copy Share Image
The Great Recession is not imaginary, and the effects loom large. There was an article in the NYT about the galloping death… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is - I really… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
It's only a matter of time before it all starts to fall apart, before things start to fall off. Short legs, long… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
I got booted out third, but to me [Last Comic Standing] was a lot like Rambo II...I don't really remember much...there was… — Rob Cantrell Copy Share Image
“Margaret looked up at him from where she sat by the window. "Oh, Brother Gregory, what's wrong with your hand" "I'm just… — Judith Merkle Riley Copy Share Image
I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“The great quantity of pepper used here was common in medieval meat preparations, where a protein was crusted in expensive spices—including “sweet”… — Sarah Lohman Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, their [evolutionists] unproven theories will continue to be accepted by the learned and the illiterate alike as absolute truth, and will… — Alfred M. Rehwinkel Copy Share Image
Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children,… — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
“Its All About Choice - The way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe. In the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Martin Luther called the church building the “Mundhaus” (lit. “mouth house” or "speech house”) because he believed that the Graeco-Roman “pagan lecture”… — Gary Patton Copy Share Image
Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages. — Brent Scowcroft Copy Share Image
Is enough to look at the Middle Ages, at the Inquisition and on the ultra religious societies that, through their fanaticism, make… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Women or mothers in middle age or mid career have valuable life experience and may offer an untapped recruitment pool. — Hazel Blears Copy Share Image
The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“He was in that broken mood for which the Middle Ages offered the cloister as a remedy; he felt the urgent need… — John Meade Falkner Copy Share Image
The main, as well as the least obvious, achievement of the Middle Ages was the creation of the experimental spirit and this… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age. — Charles Busch Copy Share Image
Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
“There were no Middle Ages in America, dumb-o,” said his sister. “White people hadn’t gotten here yet. Only Europe had Middle Ages.” — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
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![“I got booted out third, but to me [Last Comic Standing] was a lot like Rambo II...I don't really remember much...there was rats, people bombing, screaming, yelling, and a middle aged guy with a shaved chest got beat by somebody from the Viet Cong.” quote by Rob Cantrell](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/847/rob-cantrell-73959_beats_i-got-booted-out-third-but-to-me-last-co_2955172.jpg)
![“Meanwhile, their [evolutionists] unproven theories will continue to be accepted by the learned and the illiterate alike as absolute truth, and will be defended with a frantic intolerance that has a parallel only in the bigotry of the darkest Middle Ages. If one does not accept evolution as an…” quote by Alfred M. Rehwinkel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6c3/alfred-m-rehwinkel-217756_absolute-truth_meanwhile-their-evolutionists-unproven-t_2883544.jpg)
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