When women reach the age of maturity, Mother Nature sometimes overworks their frustration to the point of irrationalism. Like themiddle-aged man...who finds… — Mark Hanna Copy Share Image
“Even for a well-to-do city family, making life comfortable is a problem. But arriving at a point where comfort becomes a problem… — Joseph Gies Copy Share Image
It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality. — Alec-Tweedie Copy Share Image
We cannot hand our faith to one another… Even in the Middle Ages, when faith was theoretically uniform, it was always practically… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quench'd the open truth And fiery vehemence… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the Middle Age, in Germany, if you wanted to learn addition and multiplication, you could go to any university. But if… — Israel Gelfand Copy Share Image
“Only an obstinate prejudice about this period (which I will presently try to account for) could blind us to a certain change… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly,… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
“In short, the interaction between science and religion in the Middle Ages was not an abstract encounter between bodies of fixed ideas… — Gary B. Ferngren Copy Share Image
Our male-dominated culture tends to define success in terms of wealth, fame, power, the reaction of others. Women are fed a version… — Catherine Mayer Copy Share Image
“In 1352, Ibn Batuta, the greatest Arab-language traveler of the Middle Ages, who had journeyed overland across Africa, Europe, and Asia, reported… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
It's an American thing, but it's particularly a southern thing, and its romanticization is hyper-Southern. And it's still irresistible to me, even… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
You will all know that in the Middle Ages there were supposed to be various classes of angels. these hierarchized celsitudes are… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, their [evolutionists] unproven theories will continue to be accepted by the learned and the illiterate alike as absolute truth, and will… — Alfred M. Rehwinkel Copy Share Image
“Its All About Choice - The way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe. In the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children,… — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
“The pulse of India throbs in the music and the dance-drama. It is in the realm of living that India exposes herself,… — Peggy Holroyde Copy Share Image
“Martin Luther called the church building the “Mundhaus” (lit. “mouth house” or "speech house”) because he believed that the Graeco-Roman “pagan lecture”… — Gary Patton Copy Share Image
“Art has no immediate future because all art is collective and there is no more collective life(there are only dead collections of… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“The horrors of the Middle Ages were really nonexistent. A man of the Middle Ages would detest the whole mode of our… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Mr. Herriton, don’t – please, Mr. Herriton – a dentist. His father’s a dentist.” Philip gave a cry of personal disgust and… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Women or mothers in middle age or mid career have valuable life experience and may offer an untapped recruitment pool. — Hazel Blears Copy Share Image
The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Is enough to look at the Middle Ages, at the Inquisition and on the ultra religious societies that, through their fanaticism, make… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age. — Charles Busch Copy Share Image
In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
“There were no Middle Ages in America, dumb-o,” said his sister. “White people hadn’t gotten here yet. Only Europe had Middle Ages.” — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. — Sigmund Freud 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
The main, as well as the least obvious, achievement of the Middle Ages was the creation of the experimental spirit and this… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today. — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion. — Robert Runcie Copy Share Image