Middle Ages Quotes

222 Middle Ages quotes by 191 unique authors

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty. — William Ralph Inge
I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed. — Jerome K. Jerome
I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case. — Hilary Mantel
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. — Don Marquis
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite… — Don Marquis
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. — Andre Maurois
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the… — Margaret Mead
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age. — Jerry Saltz
The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper… — George Santayana
The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity. — Gail Sheehy
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length,… — Henry David Thoreau
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. — Bill Vaughan
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age. — Gore Vidal
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. — Orson Welles
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places. — A.C. Grayling
The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce… — Tom Robbins
The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly the dark side… — Anne Lamott
In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie… — Umberto Eco
Funny thing about those Middle Ages, said Joseph. "They just keep coming back. Mortals keep thinking they're in Modern Times, you know, they get all… — Kage Baker
In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega--a fellow you hired to walk in front of… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The worst thing about this particular end (of my youth) and the beginning (of middle age) is that for the first time in my life,… — Emily Giffin
When asked "What do we need to learn this for?" any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come… — David Sedaris
One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like… — Richard Russo
there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation… — Kurt Vonnegut

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