“We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – gunpowder and romantic love. ” — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point. — Janet Erskine Stuart Copy Share Image
“Senescence begins And middle-age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends” — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon. — Richard Nelson Bolles Copy Share Image
During the Middle Ages, Jews were members of a semi-independent polity within a larger polity. — David Novak Copy Share Image
Men's gender problems cause them a lot of suffering. There is a massive spiking suicide rate in middle age for men and… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
I have enormous respect for Derek Parfit, although he seems to me bound within an unfortunate philosophical tradition - rather like the… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
From when you are young, through middle age, you must grow to the point that you glow, so that your light lets… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition… — Jack Schwartz Copy Share Image
I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged. — Gertrude Stein 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
I really think that people have to think safety; taking risks for higher yield is a bad idea once you're in late… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“The Middle Ages were long preoccupied with the nature of the concept, or of the notion which the intellect abstracts from the… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
In public buildings set aside for the care and maintenance of the goods of the middle ages, a staff of civil service… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“With the ascension of Charles I to the throne we come at last to the Central Period of English History (not to… — W.C. Sellar Copy Share Image
“Life repeats Shakespearian themes more often than we think. Did Lady Macbeth, Richard III, and King Claudius exist only in the Middle… — Varlam Shalamov 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
Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
But I'll never see any of those fish," said Maxie."Or those whales. Or any lions or tigers. I'm never going to set… — Charlie Higson Copy Share Image
“The Eugenic optimism seems to partake generally of the nature of that dazzled and confused confidence, so common in private theatricals, that… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Every other man spoke a language entirely his own, which he had figured out by private thinking; he had his own ideas… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Saint Anthony's medallions are very powerful objects. Witches and warlocks used them in the Middle Ages, usually if they were traveling. You… — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
“The first thing for you to understand is that in this place there are no martyrdoms. You have read of the religious… — George Orwell 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
“Some were Levellers, an egalitarian movement that flowered briefly in the late 1640s. Strikingly modern in their aims, the Levellers wanted religious… — Charles Spencer Copy Share Image
“Pont Saint Benezet.” “What happened to it?” Luce asked. Daniel glanced over his shoulder. “Remember how quiet Annabelle got when I mentioned… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
Funny thing about those Middle Ages, said Joseph. "They just keep coming back. Mortals keep thinking they're in Modern Times, you know,… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Now, in my middle age, about nineteen in the head I'd say, I am rowing, I am rowing. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. — Horatio Alger Copy Share Image
Middle age is when you get in the car and immediately change the radio station. — Patricia Penton Leimbach Copy Share Image
