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
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
The 'Middle Ages/Dark Ages' were of course no such thing. Achievement in the Arabian crescent was sensational then. — Bettany Hughes 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
One of the great sadnesses of my life, as I take stock at middle age, is the sense that the adventure largely… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
[On middle age:] ... the very real possibility for you of growing fat as you near death and thus being seen by… — Marilyn Suzanne Miller Copy Share Image
The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty… — James Ellroy 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
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
“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
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 did not care much for alphabetical order, because they were committed to rational order. To the medieval mind, the… — Matthew Battles 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
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
“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
“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
“It was in 1590--winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and… — Mark Twain 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
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
“The undersigned pointed out that nothing was required of a pastor except that he intimate in church at the dead man's bier… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“In the 18th century, a revolution in thought, known as the Enlightenment, dragged us away from the superstition and brutality of the… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
The scientific-rational mindset is as much a cosmology as the Catholic mindset was in the Middle Ages; scientists are so proud of… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Cryptology served magical purposes frequently throughout the Middle Ages, and even in the Renaissance was still disguising important parts of alchemical formulas.” — David Kahn Copy Share Image
For though we are perpetually bragging of it as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The Egyptians had the locusts and in the Middle Ages there was the Black Death with the rats, but tourists are the… — Richard Conniff Copy Share Image
Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Respect for woman, the much lauded chivalry of the Middle Ages, meant what I fear it still means to some men in… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Everyone has this notion of the Middle Ages - certainly the early Middle Ages - as being this very superstitious era. I… — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“Christianity offers similar stories, and the global Christianity that perished in the late Middle Ages has revived in the past century. China… — Philip Jenkins 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
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