Middle Ages Quotes
222 quotes by 198 authors
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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
— Francis Bacon
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The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or…
— J. G. Ballard
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Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
— Franklin P. Adams
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We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to…
— Alain de Botton
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The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine…
— James Buchan
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As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never…
— Julie Burchill
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I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are…
— Julie Burchill
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The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.
— Horatio Alger
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Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
— Bennett Cerf
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Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
— Irvin S. Cobb
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There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages:…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Idea's won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervour,…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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I wonder if I could have been here before as I drive up the Roman road the Theater seems familiar - perhaps I headed a…
— George S. Patton
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Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon.
— Richard Nelson Bolles
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Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains?…
— Agnes Repplier
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Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you.
— Robert Quillen
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It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live…
— Hector Hugh Munro
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We in middle age require adventure.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
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Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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