“The disasters of the late Middle Ages tore Christianity from its roots—cultural, geographical, and linguistic. This “uprooting” created the Christianity that we… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
I did a research assignment on life in the Middle Ages only last year. I found the era fascinating, all that chivalry… — Marianne Curley Copy Share Image
But in the Middle Ages people were convinced there were witches. They looked for them and they certainly found them. — Hans Blix Copy Share Image
“When I came out into the outside room again, I saw her shoe still lying there, where it had come off in… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“It is certain that the labors of these early workers in the field of natural knowledge were brought to a standstill by… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“adult men enjoy having sex with one another, and they don’t harm anyone while doing so, why should it be wrong, and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages, the troubadour poets invented the concept of courtly love--a fantasy love, a noble passion, which was also extra-marital… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Why do I feel so exercised about what we think of the people of the Middle Ages? ... I guess it's because… — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
Clyde Phillip Wachsberger's delightful memoir about tending beds of flowers as compensation for a lonely middle age only to find unexpected romance… — Philip Gambone Copy Share Image
Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring. — Clare Boothe Luce 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 tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Devaluation of the Earth, hostility towards the Earth, fear of the Earth: these are all from the psychological point of view the… — Erich Neumann 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
“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
“What a curious man you are!’ she said. ‘Why should you disbelieve the history?’ ‘I disbelieve the history because it isn’t history,’… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Middle Age, a restful, welcome break from real life, brings some unique opportunities. — Marilyn Suzanne Miller 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
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
In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses:… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“What I want to know is, in the Middle Ages, did they do anything for Housemaid's Knee? What did they put in… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“i mean talk about decadence," he declared, "how decadent can a society get? Look at it this way. This country's probably the… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“In the Middle Ages it was a lot more fun to blame things like crop failure or redheads on witches, then set… — Andrew Heaton Copy Share Image
Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm… — John Keble Copy Share Image
Someone once said that middle age is like rereading a book that you haven't read since you were a callow youth. The… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
