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
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
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
In the middle ages, people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny,… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages. — Richard Lederer Copy Share Image
In my mind, if you went back to the Middle Ages, in Italy they'd be speaking Middle Age Italian. And at that… — Jeff Baena Copy Share Image
“New Rule: Churches have to stop ringing the damn bells. It was a good idea in the Middle Ages, but people have… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you. — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
“In the Middle Ages there was no salvation outside the Church, and the theologians had a hard time explaining what God did… — Ivan Illich 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
Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great… — Isaac Mayer Wise 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
For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe &… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You… — Dario Fo Copy Share Image
As we reach midlife in the middle thirties or early forties, we are not prepared for the idea that time can run… — Gail Sheehy 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
Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The office of Speaker is almost as ancient as Parliament itself. It emerged in the Middle Ages when the Commons - the… — John Allen Fraser Copy Share Image
“There are, broadly speaking, three directly analogous progressions inthe history of art: in Antiquity, from the blockiness of Egyptian art to the… — Klaus Berger 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
“I can suspend judgment on those who kill–but I think they are evil for the community; they bring in nothing except hate,… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega--a fellow you hired to walk… — Elizabeth Gilbert 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
When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Such was the ugly face of the Middle Ages. It is not surprising that mathematics made little progress; toward the Renaissance, European… — Petr Beckman Copy Share Image
