Middle Ages Quotes

222 Middle Ages quotes by 191 unique authors

In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in middle age that… — P.D. James
Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which… — John Mortimer
Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages. — Hans Arp
Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest. — John Keble
Fear accomplishes much in love. The husband of the Middle Ages was loved by his wife for his very severity. The bride of William the… — Jules Michelet
Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth; there are also corresponding stages in the growth of wisdom in him. — Sathya Sai Baba
I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age. — Jeffrey Eugenides
Unfortunately, at present, practically no one under thirty goes to workshops. It's a system of education entirely for the middle aged. — Rupert Sheldrake
This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming up behind me.… — Yo-Yo Ma
There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they… — Goldwin Smith
There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals. — Ralph Borsodi
The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never… — Orson Welles
Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the… — John Muir
Beautiful city! . . . spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . .… — Matthew Arnold
Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization… — Isaac Mayer Wise
In the Middle Ages, everything bad was the work of the devil, everything good, the work of God. Today, the French see everything in reverse… — Jose Rizal
The middle age of buggers is not to be contemplated without horror. — E. M. Forster
Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children, rival authors, and… — Richard Armour
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. — Sigmund Freud
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. — Andre Gide

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