Middle Ages Quotes

222 Middle Ages quotes by 191 unique authors

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity. — Gail Sheehy
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length,… — Henry David Thoreau
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. — Bill Vaughan
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age. — Gore Vidal
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. — Orson Welles
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places. — A.C. Grayling
The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce… — Tom Robbins
The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly the dark side… — Anne Lamott
In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie… — Umberto Eco
Funny thing about those Middle Ages, said Joseph. "They just keep coming back. Mortals keep thinking they're in Modern Times, you know, they get all… — Kage Baker
In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega--a fellow you hired to walk in front of… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The worst thing about this particular end (of my youth) and the beginning (of middle age) is that for the first time in my life,… — Emily Giffin
When asked "What do we need to learn this for?" any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come… — David Sedaris
One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like… — Richard Russo
there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation… — Kurt Vonnegut
But I'll never see any of those fish," said Maxie."Or those whales. Or any lions or tigers. I'm never going to set foot in a… — Charlie Higson
In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle… — Hans Christian Andersen
What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end.… — Rohinton Mistry
They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily… — Daphne du Maurier
We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That… — Anais Nin

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