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
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 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
We reserve the term 'genius' for people who are creative, who are innovators, who think in ways that are entirely new. In… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
There happened in the Middle Ages what has happened so often since then. Those who were the beneficiaries of the established order… — Henri Pirenne Copy Share Image
“University lectures are an obsolete practice inherited from the Middle Ages when books were scarce. Students should read, not listen. To swallow… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“A Jewish ethical treatise warns that a man must not express his anger by pounding on a book or by hitting people… — Joseph Gies Copy Share Image
The time passes so quickly during these full and active middle years that most people arrive at the end of middle age… — Robert J. Havighurst 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
“The hour between dog and wolf, that is, dusk, when the two can’t be distinguished from each other, suggests a lot of… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Now the code of life of the High Middle Ages said something entirely opposite to this: that it was precisely lack of… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
“Terrorists are like a fly that tries to destroy a china shop. The fly is so weak that it cannot budge even… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The great quantity of pepper used here was common in medieval meat preparations, where a protein was crusted in expensive spices—including “sweet”… — Sarah Lohman Copy Share Image
Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Almost every modern literary form existed in Hebrew two thousand years ago. And, yes, it existed even during the middle ages. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It's not like the Middle Ages, when you had the Church and the aristocracy keeping everything nice and stagnant.” — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
To the Latin, cynicism and middle age are synonymous. Look at our politicians - they move through their careers from left to… — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Middle-age has its compensations. You feel no need to do what you do not like. You are no longer ashamed of yourself;… — Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon Copy Share Image
“the most famous of all those who had an acquaintance with cryptology in the Middle Ages was an English customs official, amateur… — David Kahn Copy Share Image
“Last fight I had with the bitch ended way too soon." Eddie rolled his eyes and glanced at Jim. "It was in… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
You know you've reached middle age when you're cautioned to slow down by your doctor, instead of by the police. — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals. — Ralph Borsodi Copy Share Image
When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation...they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages. — Lee Iacocca 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
As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image