Middle Ages Quotes - Page 6

• Well, the first thing I had to do was to read a lot. First of all, about education... and looking at education from the Middle Ages right through to the 20th Century. The second major area was country life in the 19th Century, which I don't know much about these days.

  Michael Haneke

  Country, Age, Firsts

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentially constructed by the time childhood is over, but as always in its essence developing, then life at 25 or 30 or at the gateway to middle age will stimulate its own intrigue, surprise, and exhilaration of discovery.

  Erik Erikson

  Inspirational, Discovery, Essence

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• Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

  Candice Bergen

  Blessed, Acceptance, Self

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• Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.

  Earl Wilson

  Thinking, Age, Middle

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• Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

  Candice Bergen

  Memories, Age, Firsts

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• I had no intention of providing any answers or solutions, because you'd only look a fool, but I did want to talk about what it's like to be in a state where you're wondering. And perhaps I was also receptive to the fact I was entering middle age and those thoughts come - to pretend that they don't come is just crazy.

  Peter Morgan

  Crazy, Age, Looks

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It seems to me that since the Middle Ages (it's not a Reformation thing), all that stuff about Jews and Gentiles coming together in Christ was just screened out.

  N. T. Wright

  Age, Together, Stuff

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• You will all know that in the Middle Ages there were supposed to be various classes of angels. these hierarchized celsitudes are but the last traces in a less philosophical age of the ideas which Plato taught his disciples existed in the spiritual world.

  Charles Williams

  Spiritual, Plato, Philosophical

  Charles Williams (2016). “The Place of the Lion”, p.31, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• This (Vietnam) was a land of rebellious barons. It was like Europe in the Middle Ages. But what were the Americans doing here? Columbus had not yet discovered their country.

  Graham Greene

  Country, Europe, Land

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• Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.

  Karl Kraus

  Greek, Age, Boyhood

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Long Ago, Years, Ideas

  Source: bigthink.com

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• In the Middle Age, in Germany, if you wanted to learn addition and multiplication, you could go to any university. But if you wanted to learn division, you could only do it in one place, Heidelberg. This makes sense, since in my theory with Vladimir Retakh and Robert Wilson, addition and multiplications are cheap, but division is expensive.

  Israel Gelfand

  Science, Age, Germany

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• It was stone carvers in ancient Rome, scribes in the Middle Ages, all the way through Gutenberg to the present day. That's a pretty long track record. More likely we may reach a point where each one of us is a typographer with our own custom proprietary typeface.

  Michael Bierut

  Rome, Long, Track

  Source: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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• Middle Age connotes fat, cancer, bad musical taste, and death. It conjures up a commuter in the sixties going to a Neil Simon play in Sansabelt pants, a knit vest, balding, belly sagging - and then there's the men.

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller

  Cancer, Men, Play

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• Our male-dominated culture tends to define success in terms of wealth, fame, power, the reaction of others. Women are fed a version that includes personal fulfilment through marriage and motherhood in addition to professional acclaim and of course we must look sexy but not too sexy and then graciously disappear when we hit middle age.

  Catherine Mayer

  Sexy, Motherhood, Age

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• [On middle age:] ... the very real possibility for you of growing fat as you near death and thus being seen by everyone while you are both DEAD AND FAT.

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller

  Real, Age, Growing

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller (2007). “How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.

  Alec-Tweedie

  Mistake, Individuality, Age

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• The sweet reward for preparation often does not come in the youthful twenties or staid thirties. It arrives - with accrued interest - in the mature years.

  Mary Ellen Snodgrass

  Sweet, Years, Preparation

  Mary Ellen Snodgrass (1992). “Late Achievers: Famous People who Succeeded Late in Life”, Libraries Unltd Incorporated

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• Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to pay for musicians. The kings and queens had musicians in the castles, and that developed into symphony orchestras and what we call "Classical music" now.

  Pete Seeger

  Kings, Queens, Europe

  Source: www.folkmusicworldwide.com

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• When you're a fifty-year-old woman, no one really bothers to look at you anymore, much less value your opinion. It's hard on the old ego. But damn, it does make it easy to get away with a lot.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Years, Ego, Age

  Tess Gerritsen (2012). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 9-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl”, p.1858, Ballantine Books

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• Today age segregation has passed all sane limits. Not only are fifteen-year-olds isolated from seventy-year-olds but social groups divide those in high school from those in junior high, and those who are twenty from those who are twenty-five. There are middle-middle-age groups, late-middle-age groups, and old-age groups - as though people with five years between them could not possibly have anything in common.

  Suzanne Gordon

  School, Years, People

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• belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager vitality postpone the unenterprising cautions and timidities of middle age.

  Vera Brittain

  Children, Parent, Age

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• God, middle age is an unending insult.

  Dorothea Benton Frank

  Age, Insult, Menopause

  Dorothea Benton Frank (2004). “Sullivan's Island: A Lowcountry Tale”, p.43, Penguin

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• Respect for woman, the much lauded chivalry of the Middle Ages, meant what I fear it still means to some men in our own day - respect for the elect few among whom they expect to consort.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Mean, Men, Age

  Anna Julia Cooper (2016). “A Voice from the South”, p.3, Courier Dover Publications

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• In public buildings set aside for the care and maintenance of the goods of the middle ages, a staff of civil service art attendants praise all the dead, irrelevant scribblings and scrawlings that, at best, have only historical interest for idiots and layabouts.

  George Grosz

  Art, Historical, Age

  George Grosz, Heartfield, Wieland Herzfelde (1987). “Art Is in Danger”

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