Middle Ages Quotes - Page 5

• In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

  Tucker Carlson

  Age, Superstitions, Absence

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• Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Age, Youth, Middle

  Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

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• I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.

  James Ellroy

  Hurt, Stress, Writing

  James Ellroy (2012). “Conversations with James Ellroy”, p.55, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.

  Robert Lowell

  Father, Age, Alive

  'Middle Age' (1964)

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• ...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the Middle Ages... The Laws of Moses as well as the laws of Rome contributed suggestions and impulse to the men and institutions which were to prepare the modern world; and if we could have but eyes to see... we should readily discover how very much besides religion we owe to the Jew.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Mistake, Eye, Men

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• The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages, only then will Israel be calm for the next 40 years.

  Michael Ben-Ari

  Israel, Years, Goal

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• All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.

  Richard Dawkins

  College, Age, World

  Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins, twitter.com. August 08, 2013.

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• Middle age is when you go to bed at night and hope you feel better in the morning. Old age is when you go to bed at night and hope you wake up in the morning.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Morning, Feel Better

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• You also said in Rolling Stone that your look is based on mine. The look I chose, I chose on purpose at a time when my record company were encouraging me to do what you have done. I felt I would rather be judged on my talent and not my looks. I am happy that I made that choice, not least because I do not find myself on the proverbial rag heap now that I am almost 47 yrs of age.. which unfortunately many female artists who have based their image around their sexuality, end up on when they reach middle age.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Artist, Choices, Age

  "Sinéad O'Connor's open letter to Miley Cyrus", www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2013.

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• Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

  A. N. Wilson

  Birthday, School, Exercise

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• Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that goes by without violent rioting of one kind or another. They happen so frequently that they are almost part of London's texture.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Years, Age, Texture

  "Peter Ackroyd: 'Rioting has been a London tradition for centuries'". The Monday Interview with Andy McSmith, www.independent.co.uk. August 21, 2011.

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• There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

  Edward Hoagland

  Summer, Cities, Age

  Edward Hoagland (1995). “The Tugman's Passage”

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• I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.

  Roddy Doyle

  Age, Might, Way

  "Commitments" Author Pens Short Goodbyes To Youth". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. May 21, 2011.

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• Dear Lord, who made the face of me not all that I would have it be, not really homely, only plain, but strong and patient in the main. Yet one, a man apart, who found me fair and gave his heart. Now Lord, that I have grown more sage . . . into middle age. I only ask, as face grows lines of countenance, it be described as kind; that wrinkles by my eyes will show a little humor as I go; that I may view my humble scene with glance of one content, serene, through grateful, shining eyes that see the blessings you have given me.

  Ruth Perry

  Strong, Kindness, Grateful

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• As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Book, Writing, Science

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• In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in middle age that we are shadowed by the awareness of the transitoriness of life.

  P. D. James

  Reality, Risk, Age

  P. D. James (2011). “Devices and Desires”, p.211, Vintage

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• I saw in 'the wandering Jew' the personification of the Jewish people, exiled in the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, they are once again extremely rich, owing to their unfailing rude greediness and their indefatigable activity. With their hard-heartedness that they extend toward people of other faiths and races they are at the point of making themselves kings of the world. This people can thank its obstinacy that France will be Judized within fifty years. Already some wise Jews prophesy this frankly.

  George Sand

  Wise, Kings, Race

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• Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Paris, Cambridge University, Oxford

  "America Will Never Be Free Until the Last Liberal Is Strangled in the Entrails of the Last Bureaucrat". www.pearceyreport.com. November 12, 2010.

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• I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.

  Tamora Pierce

  Nuts, Age, Stuff

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• Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well.

  John Mortimer

  Children, People, Childhood

  John Mortimer (1995). “Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life”

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• Perhaps the main, as well as the least obvious, achievement of the Middle Ages, was the creation of the experimental spirit, or more exactly its slow incubation. This was primarily due to Muslims down to the end of the twelfth century, then to Christians.

  George Sarton

  Achievement, Age, Spirit

  "History of Science and New".

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• Fear accomplishes much in love. The husband of the Middle Ages was loved by his wife for his very severity. The bride of William the Conqueror, having been beaten by him, recognized him by this token for her lord and husband

  Jules Michelet

  Husband, Fear, Wife

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• There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look".

  Nelson Rockefeller

  Life, Age, Three

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• The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.

  Harold Innis

  Age, Atoms, Bombs

  Harold A. Innis, Daniel Drache (1995). “Staples, Markets, and Cultural Change: Selected Essays”, p.17, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• I do not like to see men walk away from women in late middle age.

  Peter D. Kramer

  Divorce, Men, Age

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