Middle Ages Quotes - Page 2

• You know you're getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

  Joan Rivers

  Retirement, Fun, Aging

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• I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures.

  Rick Astley

  Age, Eating, Pleasure

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Motivational, Christmas, New Year

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• Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

  Bennett Cerf

  Birthday, Age, Middle

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• Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

  A.C. Grayling

  Mind, Age, Middle

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• There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.

  Richard Lederer

  Atheist, Dark, People

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• Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning.

  Bob Hope

  Birthday, Morning, Believe

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• 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. So it's very much finding my own place.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Mentor, Age, Generations

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• Identifying as a Pagan, feminist, Witch, and anarchist is possibly a way to alarm great segments of the general public, but at least it keeps me from sinking into a boring and respectable middle age.

  Starhawk

  Feminist, Age, Identity

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• I’m 59 and people call me middle aged. How many 118 year old men do you know?

  Barry Cryer

  Funny, Men, Years

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• 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

  Sweet, Men, Age

  John Keble (1850). “The Christian year ... By John Keble. Thirty-seventh edition”, p.173

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• Beautiful city! . . . spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . . . her ineffable charm. . . . Adorable dreamer, whose heart has been so romantic!

  Matthew Arnold

  Beautiful, Heart, Garden

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• The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men are those who have developed slowly, or who have been able to survive the glamour of their early florescence and to go on learning from life.

  Willa Cather

  Men, Age, Goes On

  Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.116, U of Nebraska Press

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• At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as complacently as in the Middle Ages.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Men, Age, Century

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

  Francis Bacon

  Marriage, Wedding, Men

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Marriage and the Single Life'

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• Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Thinking, Knights

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• 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 Ages he would have been burned at the stake.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Wise, Men, Land

  Hans Christian Andersen (2005). “The complete stories”, British Library Board

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• When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. I fear the disease is incurable.

  John Steinbeck

  Travel, Jobs, Maturity

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times.

  James Buchan

  Years, Age, Firsts

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• 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 not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Good Morning, Passion, Shadow

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• Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

  Mason Cooley

  Birthday, Passion, Age Love

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• As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.

  Julie Burchill

  Age, Towns, Middle

  Julie Burchill, Daniel Raven (2007). “Made in Brighton: From the Grand to the Gutter: Modern Britain as Seen from Beside the Sea”, Virgin Books Limited

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• Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

  Doris Day

  Wise, Time, Age

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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 of middle age.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Time, Fear, Women

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• Sometimes people have said that Islam, in its own calendar, is still only in the Middle Ages.

  Salman Rushdie

  People, Islam, Age

  "Living Novelistically". Interview with Richard Wolinksy, www.guernicamag.com. October 15, 2012.

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