Middle Ages Quotes - Page 7

• he technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the "physical book," a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.

  Art Spiegelman

  Beautiful, Book, Technology

  "Art Spiegelman On The Future of the Book". Interview with Brian Heater, www.publishersweekly.com. October 11, 2011.

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• If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums.

  Elizabeth Perkins

  Night, Museums, Bars

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• Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants.

  John Shimkus

  Land, People, Age

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• Senescence begins
  And middle-age ends
  The day your descendants
  Outnumber your friends

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Age, Ends

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• I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks - who had the genius, so to speak, for sauntering: which word is beautifully derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked for charity, under the pretense of going à la Sainte Terre," to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a Sainte-Terrer," a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Art, Children

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• But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him.

  Goldwin Smith

  Running, Hype, Mind

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle age; but never to ardent three-and-twenty in the fever of his first love.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Love, Risk, Age

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1995). “The Lost World and Other Stories”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions

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• There was a good deal to be said, Hilary decided, for middle age and infirmity. The years in which one demanded much of life were left behind, together with the bitterness of not getting what one wanted. One's values, too, were altered. Gifts that once one took for granted, sunshine and birdsong, freedom from pain, sleep and one's daily bread, seemed now so extraordinarily precious.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Pain, Sleep, Sunshine

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• And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.

  Aldous Huxley

  Play, Age, Technique

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• I like my buddies from west Texas. I liked them when I was young; I liked them when I was middle-age; I liked them before I was President; and I like them during President; and I like them after President.

  George W. Bush

  Texas, Age, President

  George W. Bush's remarks in Nashville, Tennessee, www.gpo.gov. February 1, 2006.

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• Like the priestly cult of the Middle Ages, the modern priestly cult of "scientific" psychotherapists exist overwhelmingly to stultify or blunt a too-acute insight into the powers benumbed in our personalities by our prevailing culture.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Personality, Age

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• A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals. Youths are conservatives, with a dash of criminal negligence. Men in their prime are liberals (as long as their digestion keeps pace with their intellect). The middle aged run to shelter: they insure their life, draft a will, accumulate mementos and occasional tables, and hope for security. And then comes old age, which repeats childhood - a time full of humors and sadness, but often full of courage and even prophecy.

  E. B. White

  Running, Children, Sadness

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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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• After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Men, Age

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.142, Harvard University Press

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• The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a disagreeable thing.... So are flying twinges of gout, shortness of breath on the hill-side, the fact that even the moderate use of your friend's wines at dinner upsets you. These things are disagreeable because they tell you that you are no longer young—that you have passed through youth, are now in middle age, and faring onward to the shadows in which, somewhere, a grave is hid.

  Alexander Smith

  Morning, Wine, Hair

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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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• 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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• I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

  Umberto Eco

  Passion, People, Age

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• I'm my age and I feel glorious.

  Betty Friedan

  Age, Feels, Glorious

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