You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up. — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you. — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. — Hervey Allen 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
“When I think of the Middle Ages I think of castles, Catholicism, and taking your kids to soccer practice.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful,… — Jeffrey Tate Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I respected authority, then as a teenager I gave none; in middle age I expected it; now… — Horace Dyer Copy Share Image
Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
The Jews were the money-lenders of the Middle Ages so there's a stereotype of the slightly or more than slightly dishonest business… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages, only then will Israel be calm for the… — Michael Ben-Ari Copy Share Image
Since the Middle Ages, people have been writing about angels. Angelology was actually at one point a scholastic discipline. — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
“In the early Middle Ages the dominant form of political organization in Western Europe was the Germanic kingdom, and the German kingdom… — Joseph Reese Strayer Copy Share Image
We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
As we reach midlife in the middle thirties or early forties, we are not prepared for the idea that time can run… — Gail Sheehy 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
Until the middle of the nineteenth century, Biarritz was a community of whalers. During the Middle Ages, it had grown from a… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
I did a research assignment on life in the Middle Ages only last year. I found the era fascinating, all that chivalry… — Marianne Curley Copy Share Image
“As a counterbalance to the list of seven deadly sins, the church in the Middle Ages came up with a list of… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The Great Recession is not imaginary, and the effects loom large. There was an article in the NYT about the galloping death… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is - I really… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“And then I recalled those mysterious stories about the waxworkers of the middle ages and the public reprobation attached to their trade.… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan,… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Men would no longer be victims of nature or of their own largely irrational societies: reason would triumph; universal harmonious cooperation, true… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
“Sometimes silences are pregnant and sometimes not. It is hard to know what to make of the silence of much of the… — Ben Witherington III Copy Share Image
“For Plato, the quickening of the heart that occurred when a person saw his or her loved one was just a step… — Stephen Amidon Copy Share Image
“In most Christian imagery of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the suffering, damned Jews were portrayed as unsympathetic caricatures. This was an… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“The rising influence of lay piety is particularly marked upon the Mariological controversies of the late medieval period. Two rival positions developed:… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
“Slavery may change its form or its name—its essence remains the same. Its essence may be expressed in these words: to be… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs. — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway. — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
I'm the woman who used to think that middle-age spread was a cocktail dip. — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib.… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
The purpose of the Senate is to keep 100 middle aged knuckleheads out of the private sector where they can do real harm. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Middle Age connotes fat, cancer, bad musical taste, and death. It conjures up a commuter in the sixties going to a Neil… — Marilyn Suzanne Miller Copy Share Image
The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth; there are also corresponding stages in the growth of… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
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