Middle Ages Quotes

222 Middle Ages quotes by 191 unique authors

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their… — Goldwin Smith
We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything. — Neil Postman
The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages. — Stephen Gardiner
Iâ€™m 59 and people call me middle aged. How many 118 year old men do you know? — Barry Cryer
The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also… — Art Spiegelman
If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go… — Elizabeth Perkins
Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European… — John Shimkus
Middle age ends and senescence begins, the day your descendant's outnumber your friends. — Ogden Nash
I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking… — Henry David Thoreau
But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period,… — Goldwin Smith
Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle… — Arthur Conan Doyle
There was a good deal to be said, Hilary decided, for middle age and infirmity. The years in which one demanded much of life were… — Elizabeth Goudge
And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of… — Aldous Huxley
I like my buddies from west Texas. I liked them when I was young, I liked them then I was middle-age, I liked them before… — George W. Bush
Like the priestly cult of the Middle Ages, the modern priestly cult of "scientific" psychotherapists exist overwhelmingly to stultify or blunt a too-acute insight into… — Kenny Smith
A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals.… — Elwyn Brooks White
It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have been lost. Well,… — Dave Eggers
I would always prefer radio or working behind the scenes where I don't have to be seen. I don't like how appearance oriented TV is… — Susan Olsen
After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morningâ€”first fallen flake of the coming snows of ageâ€”is a… — Alexander Smith

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