“As the Moslems advanced into India native culture receded farther and farther south; and towards the end of these Middle Ages the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Identifying as a Pagan, feminist, Witch, and anarchist is possibly a way to alarm great segments of the general public, but at… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The sweet reward for preparation often does not come in the youthful twenties or staid thirties. It arrives - with accrued interest… — Mary Ellen Snodgrass Copy Share Image
“During the Middle Ages some weddings were even held in cemeteries, since it was believed the life-affirming act of marriage could halt… — Anita Diamant Copy Share Image
Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The fundamental issue, when it comes to Europe's future, will be whether and how we manage to transfer the ideals that once… — Walter Kasper Copy Share Image
To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Today age segregation has passed all sane limits. Not only are fifteen-year-olds isolated from seventy-year-olds but social groups divide those in high… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share Image
Like the priestly cult of the Middle Ages, the modern priestly cult of "scientific" psychotherapists exist overwhelmingly to stultify or blunt a… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe &… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In tribal times, there were the medicine men. In the Middle Ages, there were the priests. Today, there are the lawyers. For… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
Liberals tend to understand that a person can be lucky or unlucky in all matters relevant to his success. Conservatives, however, often… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Some authors have argued that a direct historical line can be drawn to Nazism from the French Revolution of 1789, the Jacobin… — Richard J. Evans Copy Share Image
You also said in Rolling Stone that your look is based on mine. The look I chose, I chose on purpose at… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Al-Kind¯ı’s work revived philosophy as living practice and introduced it in the new social environment of Abbasid Baghdad by making it relevant… — Dimitri Gutas Copy Share Image
Under the old social philosophy which had governed the Middle Ages, temporal, and therefore all economic, activities were referred to an eternal… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“Saint Bartleby's School for Young Gentlemen Annual Report Student: Artemis Fowl II Year: First Fees: Paid Tutor: Dr Po Language Arts As… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
People who are always praising the past And especially the time of faith as best Ought to go and live in the… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages could not Christians be united, nowadays, it is Europe that can not be united. As I see it,… — Mattias Konradsson Copy Share Image
Every woman dreams of love. When she is young she prays she will find it. When she is middle aged she hopes… — Barbara Cartland Copy Share Image
During the Middle Ages, probably one of the biggest mistakes was not putting on your armor because you were "just going down… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
“And so it was that the Poet, through an excess of theological refinement, was unable to satisfy his coarse carnal passion.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Last night was Super Tuesday - a 10-state GOP Primary orgy. A big, sweaty pile of lever-yankin Republican voters. And like most… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Last fight I had with the bitch ended way too soon." Eddie rolled his eyes and glanced at Jim. "It was in… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not… — Elizabeth Perkins Copy Share Image
Middle-age has its compensations. You feel no need to do what you do not like. You are no longer ashamed of yourself;… — Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon Copy Share Image
“the most famous of all those who had an acquaintance with cryptology in the Middle Ages was an English customs official, amateur… — David Kahn Copy Share Image
All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
