“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
As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals. — Ralph Borsodi Copy Share Image
When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation...they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages. — Lee Iacocca 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
I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of… — Quentin Crisp 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
I wonder if I could have been here before as I drive up the Roman road the Theater seems familiar - perhaps… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Idea's won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Ressentiment is always to some degree a determinant of the romantic type of mind. At least this is so when the romantic… — Max Scheler 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
“In the Middle Ages, the sin of sloth had two forms,” he said. “One was paralysis, the inability to do anything—what we… — Brigid Schulte Copy Share Image
“What I want to do is to teach a lesson to all these people … I want [to prove] that the Devil… — J.-K. Huysmans Copy Share Image
“rosticceria . . . cuddriruni . . . arancini supplì: A rosticceria is a take-out restaurant serving mostly roast meats; cuddriruni is a Sicilian sort of focaccia, served… — Andrea Camilleri Copy Share Image
“As the biggest property owners of the middle ages the Church underwent the same process as the rest of the landed proprietors.… — Franz Mehring Copy Share Image
“In the early twelfth century century the Virgin had been the supreme protectress of civilisation. She had taught a race of tough… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“It was in 1590--winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and… — Mark Twain 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
“Suppose that a great commotion arises in the street about something, let us say a lamp-post, which many influential persons desire to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The Angevin country begins between Normandy and Brittainy and continues down through Maine and Anjou. In the Middle Ages, this fair and… — Thomas B. Costain Copy Share Image
“When we recall the great influence which Spenser's poetry has exerted on English poets who have lived and written since his day,… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, snivelling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goosesteppers ever gathered under… — H. L. Mencken 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
“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
“Doctors generally consider smallpox to be the worst human disease. It is thought to have killed more people than any other infectious… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
I wonder how long this word will last, governed exclusively by the merciless, inhuman and immoral criteria of global economy. Seeing the… — Tiziano Terzani Copy Share Image
“I guess they didn’t have those in the Middle Ages, did they? (Taryn) Middle Ages? Lady, you use very strange words. (Sparhawk)… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
A woman's work, from the time she gets up to the time she goes to bed, is as hard as a day… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“The disasters of the late Middle Ages tore Christianity from its roots—cultural, geographical, and linguistic. This “uprooting” created the Christianity that we… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
Under the old philosophy which had governed the high Middle Ages things had been everywhere towards a condition of Society in which… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
My grandmother refused to concede that any member of the family died of natural causes. An uncle's cancer in middle age occurred… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
“Being an author of a book is like being a mother of a debutante in the Middle Ages. You have to present… — Elvira Baryakina Copy Share Image
Fear accomplishes much in love. The husband of the Middle Ages was loved by his wife for his very severity. The bride… — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
“Since the Middle Ages, pieces of toasted bread have been added to beer and wine to improve the beverages’ flavor. It is… — Francine Segan Copy Share Image
It's funny to see my friends going through that middle-age thing about losing their hair. I went through it in college. They… — Kenny Chesney 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
Like it or not, to reach middle age with less money or less prestige than our father had is somewhat to lose… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Claude Debussy defined the guitar as an expressive harpsicord. I believe that is the best definition ever given of the Spanish guitar.… — Joaquin Rodrigo Copy Share Image
“There’s a story, in the Bible—” “Not in the Bible,” he interrupted. “Apocryphal. Scholars seem to think it was added in the… — Robert J. Wiersema Copy Share Image
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