Middle Ages Quotes

222 Middle Ages quotes by 191 unique authors

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth. — Mason Cooley
Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera. — Mason Cooley
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. — Doris Day
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. — Doris Day
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. — William Feather
During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful,… — Joshua Foer
Musically, there's a movement called the flatted fifth that's really evil-sounding. It was outlawed by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages. That movement is… — Kirk Hammett
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?' — Sydney J. Harris
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. — Bob Hope
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty. — William Ralph Inge
I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed. — Jerome K. Jerome
I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case. — Hilary Mantel
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. — Don Marquis
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite… — Don Marquis
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. — Andre Maurois
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the… — Margaret Mead
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age. — Jerry Saltz
The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper… — George Santayana

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