Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife. — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive. — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
[On middle age:] ... the very real possibility for you of growing fat as you near death and thus being seen by… — Marilyn Suzanne Miller Copy Share Image
One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
“it may be worth while to note again how often finely developed skulls are discovered in the graveyards of old monasteries, and… — John Beddoe Copy Share Image
Perhaps the main, as well as the least obvious, achievement of the Middle Ages, was the creation of the experimental spirit, or… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work; but whereas the composer… — Harry S. Broudy Copy Share Image
The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Those who professed themselves unable to believe in the reality of human progress ought to cheer themselves up, as the students under… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Since early middle ages when people generally taking away the barbarity of their like, were pretty content. Although it was all an… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Contrary to popular belief, there aren’t that many descriptions of hell in the Bible, and the majority of images most people carry… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
“...The [Renaissance] interest in education was also influenced by a changing economy. For different reasons in different countries, agriculture was becoming less… — Patricia D. Netzley Copy Share Image
“I remember he asked his father, "Can this be true? This is the twentieth century, not the Middle Ages. Who would allow… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“In my tradition, God revealed Himself in words and lives in stories and, no, you cannot touch or even see Him. The… — Jonathan Rosen Copy Share Image
The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I can fight. I’m no black belt, but I can still stand up for myself. This is how I would react if… — Anna Adams 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
“And confronting these men, wild and terrible as we agree that they were, there were men of quite another kind, smiling and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Peasant families ate pork, beef, or game only a few times a year; fowls and eggs were eaten far more often. Milk,… — Patricia D. Netzley Copy Share Image
You know you're getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. — Joan Rivers 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
It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages. — Isaac Mayer Wise Copy Share Image
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places. — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption. — John Knox Copy Share Image
Middle age ends and senescence begins, the day your descendant's outnumber your friends. — Ogden Nash 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