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
Most established novelists are writing books informed by experiences gained in their youth. Middle age is not the best time to be… — Charles Stross 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
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
“The idea of the supernatural as being something over and above the natural is a killing idea. In the Middle Ages this… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Last fight I had with the bitch ended way too soon.” Eddie rolled his eyes and glanced at Jim. “It was back… — J.R. Ward 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
Middle age is when you find out where the action is so you can go someplace else. — Patricia Penton Leimbach Copy Share Image
Every woman dreams of love. When she is young she prays she will find it. When she is middle aged she hopes… — Barbara Cartland Copy Share Image
“Jews, there are bound to be misconceptions. During the Middle Ages, they were even accused of causing the bubonic plague by poisoning… — C.H. Dalton Copy Share Image
“People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
“back in the middle ages they burned unruly women at the stake and out of the ashes of their bones and flesh… — Leah Harris Copy Share Image
Middle age ends and senescence begins, the day your descendant's outnumber your friends. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
From youth to middle, and often to past middle, age, most men are apt to be too closely engaged in the struggle… — Richard A. Proctor 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
“In fact, we are living in an age of biblical prophecies come true. What would have seemed miraculous in the Middle Ages… — Rutger Bregman 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
“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
Middle age is when you go to bed at night and hope you feel better in the morning. Old age is when… — Groucho Marx 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
For is it not possible that middle age can be looked upon as a period of second flowering, second growth, even a… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous… — John Shimkus Copy Share Image
Western elites - the beneficiaries of 60 years of peace and prosperity achieved by the sacrifices to defeat fascism and Communism -… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“These actions have arcane names like braking, retting, swingling (or scutching), and hackling or heckling, but essentially they involve pounding, stripping, soaking,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose.… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
