The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
“Clearly, imagining cannot be expected to mean exactly the same thing today as it did in the Middle Ages or antiquity. For… — Richard Kearney Copy Share Image
The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read… — Anonymous 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 purpose of the Senate is to keep 100 middle aged knuckleheads out of the private sector where they can do real harm. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“In the early Middle Ages the dominant form of political organization in Western Europe was the Germanic kingdom, and the German kingdom… — Joseph Reese Strayer Copy Share Image
The Jews were the money-lenders of the Middle Ages so there's a stereotype of the slightly or more than slightly dishonest business… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages, only then will Israel be calm for the… — Michael Ben-Ari Copy Share Image
A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work; but whereas the composer… — Harry S. Broudy 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
“it may be worth while to note again how often finely developed skulls are discovered in the graveyards of old monasteries, and… — John Beddoe Copy Share Image
“This is an instance of the truism that, when switching from one recording medium to another, there is always a considerable data… — Sara Ayad Copy Share Image
Here's flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun And with him rises… — William Shakespeare 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
“The mass of the population before the modern era rarely ate meat as the mass of the peasantry rarely do in underdeveloped… — Malcolm Hamilton Copy Share Image
With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence,… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Every other man spoke a language entirely his own, which he had figured out by private thinking; he had his own ideas… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Peasant families ate pork, beef, or game only a few times a year; fowls and eggs were eaten far more often. Milk,… — Patricia D. Netzley Copy Share Image
“The Eugenic optimism seems to partake generally of the nature of that dazzled and confused confidence, so common in private theatricals, that… — G.K. Chesterton 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
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
“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
“...The [Renaissance] interest in education was also influenced by a changing economy. For different reasons in different countries, agriculture was becoming less… — Patricia D. Netzley Copy Share Image
“In my tradition, God revealed Himself in words and lives in stories and, no, you cannot touch or even see Him. The… — Jonathan Rosen Copy Share Image
I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful,… — Jeffrey Tate Copy Share Image
Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are… — Mikhail Bakunin 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
I really think that people have to think safety; taking risks for higher yield is a bad idea once you're in late… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming… — Yo-Yo Ma 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
From when you are young, through middle age, you must grow to the point that you glow, so that your light lets… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition… — Jack Schwartz Copy Share Image
Men's gender problems cause them a lot of suffering. There is a massive spiking suicide rate in middle age for men and… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really… — Richard Russo 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