Middle Ages Quotes

222 Middle Ages quotes by 191 unique authors

But I'll never see any of those fish," said Maxie."Or those whales. Or any lions or tigers. I'm never going to set foot in a… — Charlie Higson
In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle… — Hans Christian Andersen
What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end.… — Rohinton Mistry
They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily… — Daphne du Maurier
We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That… — Anais Nin
I did a research assignment on life in the Middle Ages only last year. I found the era fascinating, all that chivalry and court romance.… — Marianne Curley
It's like suddenly in the Middle Ages, people figured men should be in charge of women's bodies since they were in charge of pretty much… — Inga Muscio
Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that furnace… — Elizabeth Gaskell
A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times;… — John Gresham Machen
Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing. — Scott Adams
There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about yourself. Your connection… — Dan Chaon
To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in… — George Orwell
What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age. — Sylvia Plath
Liberals tend to understand that a person can be lucky or unlucky in all matters relevant to his success. Conservatives, however, often make a religious… — Sam Harris
In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access;… — John Edward Williams
Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning. — Bob Hope
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
But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now… — Virginia Woolf
Western elites - the beneficiaries of 60 years of peace and prosperity achieved by the sacrifices to defeat fascism and Communism - are unhappy in… — Victor Davis Hanson
In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it… — George Bernard Shaw
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion. — Robert Runcie
When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure… — John Steinbeck
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
You know you've reached middle age when you're cautioned to slow down by your doctor, instead of by the police. — Joan Rivers
Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries. — Adolf Hitler

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