Middle age is when you get in the car and immediately change the radio station. — Patricia Penton Leimbach Copy Share Image
During the Middle Ages, Jews were members of a semi-independent polity within a larger polity. — David Novak Copy Share Image
Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon. — Richard Nelson Bolles Copy Share Image
“Senescence begins And middle-age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends” — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption. — John Knox 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
“Big Stupid leapt up. Little Duane had a gun. Big Stupid punched Little Duane so hard his whole family tree died back… — Victor Gischler 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
“The fall of Rome in 476 A.D. marks the time when the literate barbarians of Rome were replaced by the illiterate barnarians… — Daniel Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
The term middle-aged, invented by Descartes, comes from the Latin, medeus, meaning 'not really old' and ageis, meaning 'if you look at… — Marilyn Suzanne Miller Copy Share Image
I definitely have a kind of Stockholm Syndrome for superhero movies because it's very clear that's the era we're in. It's like… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
When you're a fifty-year-old woman, no one really bothers to look at you anymore, much less value your opinion. It's hard on… — Tess Gerritsen 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
“The bibliographer in the digital age returns to the revelatory practice of her medieval forebears. Librarians, like those scribes of the Middle… — Matthew Battles Copy Share Image
Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but,… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
In western civilization, the period ruled by mysticism is known as the 'Dark Ages' and the 'Middle Ages'. I will assume that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe &… — Mark Twain 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
“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
To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did… — Philip Khuri Hitti 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
“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches… — Abraham Pais 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 people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses:… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The most striking phenomenon connected with the progress of technology is the development of cultural centres into large cities in the modern… — Arnold Hauser Copy Share Image
“Saint Bartleby's School for Young Gentlemen Annual Report Student: Artemis Fowl II Year: First Fees: Paid Tutor: Dr Po Language Arts As… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places. — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“Agnes! Do you hear me? I was wrong. The world isn't ending. There are things that matter. We matter.” — Julia Gfrörer Copy Share Image
I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Middle age ends and senescence begins, the day your descendant's outnumber your friends. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point. — Janet Erskine Stuart Copy Share Image
“We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – gunpowder and romantic love. ” — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
