“It was thought in the Middle Ages that people simply make many observations, and the observations themselves suggest the laws. But it… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
“A few hours later, Françoise was able for the last time, and without causing pain, to comb that beautiful hair, which was… — PROUST MARCEL 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
“People gave 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
The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Had today's technophobic zealots [environmental activists] been in charge in previous centuries, we would have to roll human progress back to the… — Paul Driessen Copy Share Image
“Being doped is a pleasure you pay for. There was always opium there for the people -- in the end it tainted… — Ernst Bloch Copy Share Image
To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But the child grows up, and reaches adolescence. He stands on the threshold of life, and the school-bench is left behind him.… — Lyubov Dostoyevskaya Copy Share Image
For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
Marriage is not something that can be accomplished all at once; it has to be constantly reaccomplished. A couple must never indulge… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music. — Derek Bailey 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 developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up. — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
“Plutarch clearly notes that her beauty “was not in itself so remarkable that none could be compared with her, or that no… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Until the end of the Middle Ages, and in many cases afterwards too, in order to obtain initiation in a trade of… — Philippe Aries Copy Share Image
“Agnes! Do you hear me? I was wrong. The world isn't ending. There are things that matter. We matter.” — Julia Gfrörer Copy Share Image
I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades. — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
“Zeitgeist is a German word that means “spirit of the age.” The zeitgeist of Periclean Athens was self-knowledge (supremely embodied in the… — Louis A. Markos Copy Share Image
Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay… — William Faulkner 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
The 'Middle Ages/Dark Ages' were of course no such thing. Achievement in the Arabian crescent was sensational then. — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Last night was Super Tuesday - a 10-state GOP Primary orgy. A big, sweaty pile of lever-yankin Republican voters. And like most… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image