Middle Ages Quotes - Page 16

• One of the great sadnesses of my life, as I take stock at middle age, is the sense that the adventure largely ended by the time I was twenty-five.

  Jon Weisman

  Adventure, Sadness, Age

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.

  Charles Busch

  Regret, Age, Fifteen

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I have a feeling there is no ideal situation, unless she could go back in time and be 22 again. I think some of it is just kind of the shock of realizing that you're approaching middle age, or that you are middle-aged and kind of coming to terms with that in whatever incremental ways.

  Amanda Peet

  Thinking, Feelings, Age

  "Amanda Peet and Steve Zissis discuss what the second season holds for Togetherness". Interview with Gwen Ihnat, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2016.

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• 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

  Men, Growth, Age

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• Marriage is not something that can be accomplished all at once; it has to be constantly reaccomplished. A couple must never indulge in idle tranquility with the remark: "The game is won; let's relax." The game is never won. The chances of life are such that anything is possible. Remember what the dangers are for both sexes in middle age. A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

  Andre Maurois

  Marriage, Sex, Couple

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, man's dispute with madness was dramatic debate in which he confronted the secret powers of the world; the experience of madness was clouded by images of the Fall and the Will of God, of the Beast and the Metamorphosis, and of all the marvelous secrets of Knowledge

  Michel Foucault

  Fall, Men, Secret

  Michel Foucault (2013). “Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason”, p.12, Vintage

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• But in the Middle Ages people were convinced there were witches. They looked for them and they certainly found them.

  Hans Blix

  People, Age, Witch

  "Blix criticises UK's Iraq dossier". BBC Radio 4's Today programme Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. September 18, 2003.

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• Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that can redeem religion, and the clerics will never forgive us for that.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Art, Forgiving, Age

  "Dhalgren". Book by Samuel R. Delany, January, 1975.

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• Under the old social philosophy which had governed the Middle Ages, temporal, and therefore all economic, activities were referred to an eternal standard. The production of wealth, it distribution and exchange were regulated with a view to securing the Christian life of Christian men. In two points especially was this felt: First in securing the independence of the family, which can only be done by the wide distribution of property, in others words the prevention of the growth of a proletariat; secondly, in the close connection between wealth and public function.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Christian, Philosophy, Men

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• In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Honesty, Names, Age

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1980). “Bakunin on anarchism”

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• Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Summer, Spring, Age

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• The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Age, Problem, Psychological

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• From youth to middle, and often to past middle, age, most men are apt to be too closely engaged in the struggle of life to pay due attention to the strength of the body. They may take daily what they consider a sufficient amount of exercise; but the exercise is not calculated to keep the various limbs and muscles, still less the internal organs, in proper working order. Amid the ordinary concerns of life the man may appear strong, even stalwart. But when occasion arises for some special muscular exercise, or taxing the action of some organ, he finds out his weakness.

  Richard A. Proctor

  Strong, Struggle, Exercise

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• The office of Speaker is almost as ancient as Parliament itself. It emerged in the Middle Ages when the Commons - the ordinary people - of England needed a spokesman in their dealings with the King, someone who would voice their grievances and present their petitions. This was by no means a safe or easy thing to do at that time, and potential spokesman generally had to be pressured into accepting the responsibility.

  John Allen Fraser

  Kings, Mean, Responsibility

  John Allen Fraser (1993). “The House of Commons at Work”, Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière

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• Middle age is when you find out where the action is so you can go someplace else.

  Patricia Penton Leimbach

  Age, Action, Middle

  Patricia Penton Leimbach (1987). “All my meadows”, Harpercollins

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• For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.

  Mark Twain

  Fall, Mean, Night

  Mark Twain, William Dean Howells (1960). “Mark Twain-Howells letters: the correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens and William D. Howells, 1872-1910”, Belknap Press

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• Middle age is when the best exercise is one of discretion.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Exercise, Age, Judgment

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• Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

  William Faulkner

  Fun, Children, People

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• In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.

  Herman Melville

  Death, Men, Childhood

  Herman Melville (1855). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.347

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• In the Middle Ages people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Snakes, Oil, People

  "The Return of the Primitive" by Charles Krauthammer, content.time.com. January 29, 1996.

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• After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.

  Mason Cooley

  Self Questioning, Age, Aging

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• 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 regrets into old age.

  Margaret Mead

  Birthday, Regret, Learning

  "Teacher's Treasury of Stories for Every Occasion". Book by Millard Dale Baughman, 1958.

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