Middle Ages Quotes

222 quotes by 198 authors

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. — Francis Bacon
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
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. — Franklin P. Adams
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
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
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
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
The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. — Horatio Alger
Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you. — Bennett Cerf
Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms. — Irvin S. Cobb
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
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
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
Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon. — Richard Nelson Bolles
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
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
Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you. — Robert Quillen
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
We in middle age require adventure. — Carolyn Heilbrun
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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