Middle Ages Quotes

222 quotes by 191 authors

During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method… — Richard P. Feynman
He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four. — Unknown Author
Someone once said that middle age is like rereading a book that you haven't read since you were a callow youth. The first time around… — Eda LeShan
When I was a kid I respected authority, then as a teenager I gave none; in middle age I expected it; now in old age… — Unknown Author
If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand, had erred in the opposite… — William Johnson Sollas
Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one… — Abraham Pais
During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did the Arabs, if… — Unknown Author
Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death. — Gerald Brenan
Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. — Hervey Allen
Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age. — Unknown Author
We cannot hand our faith to one another.... Even in the Middle Ages, when faith was theoretically uniform, it was always practically individual. — John Jay Chapman
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. — Anne Bradstreet
I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle… — James Ellroy
Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive. — Robert Lowell
...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the Middle Ages... The… — Woodrow Wilson
The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages, only then will Israel be calm for the next 40 years. — Michael Ben-Ari
All the worldâ€™s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though. — Richard Dawkins
Middle age is when you go to bed at night and hope you feel better in the morning. Old age is when you go to… — Groucho Marx
You also said in Rolling Stone that your look is based on mine. The look I chose, I chose on purpose at a time when… — Sinead O'Connor
Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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