Middle Ages Quotes

222 Middle Ages quotes by 191 unique authors

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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