Middle Ages Quotes

222 Middle Ages quotes by 191 unique authors

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the… — A. N. Wilson
Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it. — Laurence J. Peter
There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely… — Edward Hoagland
I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story. — Roddy Doyle
Dear Lord, who made the face of me not all that I would have it be, not really homely, only plain, but strong and patient… — Unknown Author
Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride! — Bertha von Suttner
Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Meanwhile, their [evolutionists] unproven theories will continue to be accepted by the learned and the illiterate alike as absolute truth, and will be defended with… — Unknown Author
The usual marriage in traditional cultures was arranged for by the families. It wasn't a person-to-person decision at all. . . . In the Middle… — Joseph Campbell
I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion. — Stephen Spender
The purpose of the Senate is to keep 100 middle aged knuckleheads out of the private sector where they can do real harm. — P.J. O'Rourke
The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle… — Anne Bradstreet
The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, snivelling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goosesteppers ever gathered under one flag in… — H. L. Mencken
The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs. — Harold Innis
I couldn't imagine anything more horrifying than three middle aged men trying to pretend that 'Black Dog' is still significant. It's inappropriate. — Robert Plant
The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing… — Vilhjalmur Stefansson
A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work; but whereas the composer and the painter… — Harry S. Broudy
I did not intend to write a funny book, at first. I did not know I was a humorist. I have never been sure about… — Jerome K. Jerome
None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often… — Anne Tyler

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