Sometimes people have said that Islam, in its own calendar, is still only in the Middle Ages. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The pogroms in Mainz, Worms, and Trier were an early expression of a new, more militant Christianity. The Civitas Dei—or God State—grew… — John Kelly Copy Share Image
I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Since early middle ages when people generally taking away the barbarity of their like, were pretty content. Although it was all an… — David Bowie 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
“In 1352, Ibn Batuta, the greatest Arab-language traveler of the Middle Ages, who had journeyed overland across Africa, Europe, and Asia, reported… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
In tribal times, there were the medicine men. In the Middle Ages, there were the priests. Today, there are the lawyers. For… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
“Imagine if people knew that this legendary brotherhood who, according to the history books, ceased to exist in the Middle Ages was… — John Paul Davis Copy Share Image
“Intellectual work sometimes, spiritual work certainly, artistic work always — these are forces that fall within its grasp, forces that must travel… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
“Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
By May, 1st, 1937, there should not be one single church left within the borders of Soviet Russia, and the idea of… — Joseph Stalin 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 do know middle age can bring greater depth, greater wisdom, greater capacity for love, greater capacity for relationship, greater consciousness and… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“I remember he asked his father, "Can this be true? This is the twentieth century, not the Middle Ages. Who would allow… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
In the agreement to rescue Rome [i.e., the Roman Catholic Church's hierarchy] from the predicament of losing its world control to Protestantism,… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife. — Richard Armour 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
“The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of… — Hermann Weyl 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
“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
Today age segregation has passed all sane limits. Not only are fifteen-year-olds isolated from seventy-year-olds but social groups divide those in high… — Suzanne Gordon 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
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
