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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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 middle ages did not care much for alphabetical order, because they were committed to rational order. To the medieval mind, the… — Matthew Battles Copy Share Image
Throughout the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, Latin was the language of learning and international communication. But in the early modern period,… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
We often forget that Spain controlled big parts of Europe, in Italy and the Netherlands. In the Middle Ages, Spain and Portugal… — Max Fisher Copy Share Image
“The Middle Ages have served as a historical arena within which two schools of thought have done battle—one school accusing the medieval… — Gary B. Ferngren Copy Share Image
“Particularly telling are civilisation-style strategy games, such as Minecraft, The Settlers of Catan or Sid Meier’s Civilization. The game may be set… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior… — Ayn Rand 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
“adult men enjoy having sex with one another, and they don’t harm anyone while doing so, why should it be wrong, and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
“The most striking phenomenon connected with the progress of technology is the development of cultural centres into large cities in the modern… — Arnold Hauser Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses:… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“In the 18th century, a revolution in thought, known as the Enlightenment, dragged us away from the superstition and brutality of the… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
“The undersigned pointed out that nothing was required of a pastor except that he intimate in church at the dead man's bier… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately… — George F. Kennan 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
The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages. — Brent Scowcroft 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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