Middle Ages Quotes - Page 6

• By May, 1st, 1937, there should not be one single church left within the borders of Soviet Russia, and the idea of God will have been banished from the Soviet Union as a remnant of the Middle Ages, which has been used for the purpose of oppressing the working classes.

  Joseph Stalin

  Russia, Class, Ideas

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• You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up.

  Bob Hope

  Age, Middle, Weightlifting

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• For though we are perpetually bragging of it as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper.

  Charles Dickens

  Class, Safety, Age

  "Life, Letters, and Speeches of Charles Dickens".

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• Middle age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Tired, Age, Middle

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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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• Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Retirement, Fun, Age

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• Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Age, Generations, Middle

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• It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.

  Cyril Connolly

  Infidelity, Age, Causes

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• Fear comes with middle age.

  Lillian Hellman

  Age, Middle

  Lillian Hellman, Jackson R. Bryer (1986). “Conversations with Lillian Hellman”, p.61, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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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• Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to what is. Neither of them can tolerate capricious subjectivity because both are subject to their criteria of truth. Both require precision, order, and discipline because no comprehensible statement can be made without these. Both accept the sensory world as what the Middle Ages called signatura regrum, the signature of things, but in quite different ways.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Dedication, Order

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• With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle age—are so beautifully revealed here, a trenchant reminder that our pasts are alive inside of us. There are psychologists who can write, and writers who can psychologize, but rarely have the two met on the page with such moving, profound results.

  Dani Shapiro

  Uplifting, Memories, Moving

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• It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have been lost. Well, we live in a similar time, when we're losing the vast majority of what we do and see and learn. But it doesn't have to be that way.

  Dave Eggers

  Dark, Age, Way

  Dave Eggers (2013). “The Circle”, p.60, Vintage

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• I would always prefer radio or working behind the scenes where I don't have to be seen. I don't like how appearance oriented TV is (especially now that I'm middle aged!). But I am developing a show revolving around animal rescue which will hopefully entertain and maybe do a bit of good for the cause as well.

  Susan Olsen

  Animal, Behind The Scenes, Radio

  "'Brady Bunch' Feud: Susan 'Cindy' Olsen Says Lesbian Rumors False" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. November 20, 2009.

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• ..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the bible (I read the New Testament every few years) or reading the great 19th century novelists (the greatest and shrewdest judge of people and of society who ever lived), or classical philosophy (which I cannot read-it puts me to sleep immediately), or history (which is secondary). What matters is that the knowledge worker, by the time he or she reaches middle age, has developed and nourished a human being rather than a tax accountant or a hydraulic engineer.

  Peter Drucker

  Education, Business, Philosophy

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• On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quench'd the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth: Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare.

  Walter Scott

  Soul, Age, Glee

  Sir Walter Scott (1866). “Poetical Works ... With a biographical and critical memoir by Francis Turner Palgrave. (The Globe edition.).”, p.138

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• When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Marriage, Young, Used

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• There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals.

  Ralph Borsodi

  Holiday, Years, Age

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• The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age.

  Orson Welles

  Inspiration, Age, Genius

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

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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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• Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.

  Isaac Mayer Wise

  Years, Civilization, Progress

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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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• 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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• We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

  Neil Postman

  Believe, Age, Middle

  "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business". Book by Neil Postman, 1985.

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• The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Dwelling, House, Age

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The House: Its Origins and Evolution”, Ivan R Dee

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