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
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
And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta? — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
“In the Middle Ages, this conflict between the Platonic and Aristotelian views of the relationship between mathematics and the world began to… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I shouldn't call it shit. That's a bit crude. I don't really despise Christianity or even the Roman Church, and certainly… — Edward Abbey 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
“must have saffron to colour the warden pies; mace; dates?— none, that’s out of my note; nutmegs, seven; a race or two… — Francine Segan 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
it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point. — Janet Erskine Stuart Copy Share Image
Ressentiment is always to some degree a determinant of the romantic type of mind. At least this is so when the romantic… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
“When humanity finally emerges from the Middle Ages altogether, when he stops connecting psychic behavior with"the work of the Devil" or with… — Daniel Logan Copy Share Image
“I believe that the military-industrial state will eventually collapse, possibly even in our lifetime, and that a majority of us (if prepared)… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“The foundational knowledge of the average American is now so low that it has crashed through the floor of “uninformed,” passed “misinformed”… — Thomas M. Nichols 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
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
It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did the most for the present world were just those who… — Scott Sauls 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
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The fierce poet of the Middle Ages wrote, "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here," over the gates of the lower world.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
