In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
You know you're getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife. — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism,… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
“Jews, there are bound to be misconceptions. During the Middle Ages, they were even accused of causing the bubonic plague by poisoning… — C.H. Dalton Copy Share Image
When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
When you approach middle age, lots of stuff happens. Your body is aging, you're watching people around you get sick, you're watching… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Instead of facing a crisis as I approached middle age, I discovered that a new and better life lay before me. I… — Bob Buford Copy Share Image
The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Until the end of the Middle Ages, and in many cases afterwards too, in order to obtain initiation in a trade of… — Philippe Aries Copy Share Image
I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
We often forget that Spain controlled big parts of Europe, in Italy and the Netherlands. In the Middle Ages, Spain and Portugal… — Max Fisher Copy Share Image
Throughout the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, Latin was the language of learning and international communication. But in the early modern period,… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“The Middle Ages have served as a historical arena within which two schools of thought have done battle—one school accusing the medieval… — Gary B. Ferngren Copy Share Image
When I rather guiltily read the books on which the TV series 'Game Of Thrones' is based, I was struck by one… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Suppose that a great commotion arises in the street about something, let us say a lamp-post, which many influential persons desire to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The Angevin country begins between Normandy and Brittainy and continues down through Maine and Anjou. In the Middle Ages, this fair and… — Thomas B. Costain Copy Share Image
“When we recall the great influence which Spenser's poetry has exerted on English poets who have lived and written since his day,… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
“In the early twelfth century century the Virgin had been the supreme protectress of civilisation. She had taught a race of tough… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“As the biggest property owners of the middle ages the Church underwent the same process as the rest of the landed proprietors.… — Franz Mehring Copy Share Image
“rosticceria . . . cuddriruni . . . arancini supplì: A rosticceria is a take-out restaurant serving mostly roast meats; cuddriruni is a Sicilian sort of focaccia, served… — Andrea Camilleri Copy Share Image
“back in the middle ages they burned unruly women at the stake and out of the ashes of their bones and flesh… — Leah Harris Copy Share Image
I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades. — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
