Best age & middle Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

People World Years Hard Age Race Rich Saws Wise Middle Kings Activity Jew Wander France Fifty Nevertheless Rude Middle Ages Owing Obstinacy Personification Greediness

Author:George Sand

“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.”

Firsts Age Church Christianity Middle Intellectual West University Paris Empires Middle Ages Roman Empire Oxford Cambridge Roman Civilization Cambridge University

Author:Nancy Pearcey

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

Age Stuff Middle Thirds Grades Nuts Fourth Middle Ages Fourth Grade

Author:Tamora Pierce

“There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time.”

World Long Age Lasts Middle Periods Creating Long Time Jazz Golden Sixty Innovators Golden Age Creating Things

Author:Sonny Rollins

“Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.”

Source: Lectures on Calvinism

“What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.”

Life Book Age Time Progress Middle Burning Censorship Burned Middle Ages Repression Psychoanalysis

Book:Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex (Annotated)

Source: Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex (Annotated)

“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.”

Source: Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life

“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.”

Men Age Middle Sweet Calm Old Man Waking Infant Middle Ages Soothing Babyhood

Book:The Christian year ... By John Keble. Thirty-seventh edition

Source: The Christian year ... By John Keble. Thirty-seventh edition

“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”

Age Fear Lord Wife Middle Husband Accomplish Beaten Middle Ages Brides Conqueror Tokens Severity William The Conqueror

Author:Jules Michelet

“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.”

Men Age Growth Middle Stage Youth Adolescence Middle Ages Corresponding Boyhood

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age.”

Shows Age Middle Members Hatred Mirrors Aging Mortality Middle Ages Family Members

Book:Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

“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.”

Littles Age My Own Behinds Gone Generations Middle Findings Mentor Middle Ages New Generation

Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.”

People Trying Believe Art Age Wish Middle Fancy Spells Middle Ages

Book:Lectures and Essays

Source: Lectures and Essays

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

Years Age Middle Thirds Holiday Leisure Festivals Idleness Middle Ages

Author:Ralph Borsodi

“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.”

Firsts Stills Inspiration Age Heard Middle Genius Ears Middle Ages

Author:Orson Welles

“Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the origin of that word 'saunter?' It's a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, "A la sainte terre,' 'To the Holy Land.' And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them."”

“This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when voices dipped and dove. Our first flaws were emerging, but they were being corrected. Blurry vision could be fixed invisibly with the magic of the contact lens. Crooked teeth were pulled straight with braces. Spotty skin could be chemically cleared. Some girls were turning beautiful. A few boys were growing tall.”

Source: The Age of Miracles

“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!”

Heart Has Beens Age Lasts Beautiful Cities Middle Garden Charm Dreamer Towers Moonlight Middle Ages Whispering Enchantment Oxford Adorable Ineffable Beautiful City

Author:Matthew Arnold

“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.”

Years Problem Age Spirit Progress Middle Civilization Thousand Years Ago Difficulty Middle Ages Disturbed Hebrew

Author:Isaac Mayer Wise

“In the Middle Ages, everything bad was the work of the devil, everything good, the work of God. Today, the French see everything in reverse and blame the Germans for it.”

Age Today Middle Devil Blame Reverse Middle Ages

Author:Jose Rizal

“The middle age of buggers is not to be contemplated without horror.”

Age Middle Horror Middle Ages

Author:E. M. Forster

“Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children, rival authors, and tired librarians. Like everything of importance since the invention of the cloak and the shroud, its origins are cloaked in mystery and shrouded in secrecy. Some scholars believe that the first instance of book burning occurred in the Middle Ages, when a monk was trying to illuminate a manuscript. All agree that book burning was almost non-existent during the period when books were made of stone.”

“In the Middle Ages, the troubadour poets invented the concept of courtly love--a fantasy love, a noble passion, which was also extra-marital and thus inevitably thwarted, illicit, adulterous. One of the medieval terms for it was amour honestus (honest love). I've always wondered why this passionate ideal--masochistic, spiritual-travelled with such wildfire throughout Europe. My poem, a ghazal, takes up the subject.”

“I hope to die right in the middle of a song and right on the stage doing what I love to do. I hope to be about 120 when that happens.”

Happens Age Death Song Dies Middle Stage

Author:Dolly Parton

“I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was some years before I was bold enough to decline an invitation to "Hamlet" on the grounds that I knew who won.”

Years Enough Age Rooms Middle Youth Aesthetic Decline Shed Invitations Middle Ages Monstrous Posture Philistines

Author:Quentin Crisp

“That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.”

Problem Age Middle Divine Conflict Middle Ages Lure Earthly Things

Book:A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“The ills and disorders of the 14th century could not be without consequence. Times were to grow worse over the next fifty-odd years until at some imperceptible moment, by the some mysterious chemistry, energies were refreshed, ideas broke out of the mold of the Middle Ages into new realms, and humanity found itself redirected.”

Years Ideas Moments Age Humanity Next Found Energy Grows Middle Century Consequence Mysterious Broke Odd Realms Fifty Chemistry Disorder Middle Ages Mold

Author:Barbara Tuchman

“I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately my own, scarcely to be shared with others or even made plausible to them. I habitually read special meanings into things, scenes and places qualities of wonder, beauty, promise, or horror for which there was no external evidence visible or plausible to others. My world was peopled with mysteries, seductive hints, vague menaces, "intimations of immortality.”

World Made Age My Own Quality Wonder Mystery Childhood Middle Special Promise Horror Scene Evidence Immortality Visible Intensity Vague Middle Ages Hints Seductive Menace Plausible

Book:MEMOIRS 1925-1950

Source: MEMOIRS 1925-1950

“Those who professed themselves unable to believe in the reality of human progress ought to cheer themselves up, as the students under examination had conceivably been cheered up, by a short study of the Middle Ages. The hydrogen bomb, the South African Government, Chioang Kaidick, Senator McCarthy himself, would then seem a light price to pay for no longer being in the Middle Ages.”

Believe Humans Reality Light Seems Government Age Pay Study Progress Middle Students Ought South Bombs Cheer South Africa Senators Middle Ages Examination Hydrogen Human Progress Hydrogen Bomb

Book:Lucky Jim

Source: Lucky Jim

“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.”

Men World Firsts Has Beens Age Able Middle Youth Goes On Brilliant Great Men Fades Grey Middle Ages Glamour Flowering

Book:Not Under Forty

Source: Not Under Forty

“And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?”

Age Happened Middle Instance Middle Ages Juliet Pasta Silhouettes

Book:Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings

Source: Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings

“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.”

Men Age Middle Century Gentle Stakes Disguise Middle Ages Twentieth Century Barbarism

Book:The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Source: The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“Like it or not, to reach middle age with less money or less prestige than our father had is somewhat to lose face. Stupid of course, when put like that, but who is prepared to argue that we are not stupid in several important ways?”

Way Important Age Faces Courses Father Loses Middle Stupid Prepared Arguing Middle Ages Our Father Prestige Not Stupid

Author:Robertson Davies

“He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour.”

Two Age Middle Italian Middle Ages Statesmen

Author:Andrew Dickson White

“It truly is a little intimidating to go speak at a middle school. Sure, on one hand the kids are only around 13 years old, but on the other hand, merely going back there reactivates the dorky, miserable feeling of being that age again. It isn't easy. As soon as I arrived I could almost feel the braces on my teeth, the don't-look-at-me slouch of my shoulders, the feathered wings of my bangs.”

Feels Years Looks Littles Feelings Hands Kids Age School Speak Easy Middle Wings Shoulders Teeth Miserable Look At Me Bangs Intimidating Middle School Braces Dorky

Author:Kristin Armstrong

“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.”

“It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.”

Age Literature Middle Honor Crosses Middle Ages Unthinkable Legion Frenchmen Syphilis

Author:Andre Gide

“September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational. And such old, old stuff. The conflicts we now face or fear involve opposed geographical arenas, but also opposed centuries or even millennia. It is a landscape of ferocious anachronisms: nuclear jihad in the Indian subcontinent; the medieval agonism of Islam; the Bronze Age blunderings of the Middle East.”

Age Faces Night Stuff Middle Century Conflict Enlightenment Islam East Nuclear Landscape Indian Middle East September Irrational Arena Medieval September 11 Jihad Bronze Old Stuff Anachronism

Author:Martin Amis

“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”

Men World Age Fall Secret Middle Madness Debate Gods Will Dramatic Beast Marvelous Disputes Middle Ages Renaissance Metamorphosis Clouded Renaissance Man

Book:Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

Source: Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

“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.”

Wells Art Age Today Able Middle Art Is Forgiving Middle Ages Never Forgive

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“By making college more affordable for all and more accessible for minority students, the first new higher education authorizing legislation in a decade will help strengthen our nation and America's middle class, and spur a new age of innovation and ingenuity in our country.”

“In tribal times, there were the medicine men. In the Middle Ages, there were the priests. Today, there are the lawyers. For every age, a group of bright boys, learned in their trades and jealous of their learning, who blend technical competence with plain and fancy hocus-pocus to make themselves masters of their fellow men. For every age, a pseudo-intellectual autocracy, guarding the tricks of the trade from the uninitiated, and running, after its own pattern, the civilization of its day.”

“Now the code of life of the High Middle Ages said something entirely opposite to this: that it was precisely lack of leisure, an inability to be at leisure, that went together with idleness; that the restlessness of work-for-work's sake arose from nothing other than idleness. There is a curious connection in the fact that the restlessness of a self-destructive work-fanatacism should take its rise from the absence of a will to accomplish something.”

Should Said Self Facts Age Together Middle Connections Opposites Sake Accomplish Absence Curious Code Destructive Leisure Inability Idleness Middle Ages Restlessness Self Destructive

Author:Josef Pieper

“If the men of the Middle Ages... lived in filth and discomfort, it was not for any lack of ability to change their mode of life; it was because they chose to live this way, because filth and discomfort fitted in with their principles and prejudices, political, moral, and religious.... It was in the power of medieval... craftsmen to create armchairs and sofas that might have rivaled in comfort those of today”

Ifs Men Way Might Age Today Political Religious Ability Moral Principles Middle He Man Comfort Prejudice Middle Ages Discomfort Medieval Filth Sofas Craftsman Armchairs Ability To Change

Author:Aldous Huxley

“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.”

Should May Has Beens Ideas Age Used Purpose Left Church Class Middle Unions Russia Gods Will Borders Soviet Working Class Soviet Union Middle Ages Remnants Soviet Russia

Author:Joseph Stalin

“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.”

“Under the old philosophy which had governed the high Middle Ages things had been everywhere towards a condition of Society in which property was well distributed throughout the community, and thus the family rendered independent.”

Wells Philosophy Age Politics Community Economy Middle Conditions Independent Property Liberalism Middle Ages

Book:The Crisis Of Civilization

Source: The Crisis Of Civilization

“One of the most persistent fallacies about the Christian Church is that it kept learning alive during the Dark and Middle Ages. What the Church did was to keep learning alive in the monasteries, while preventing the spread of knowledge outside them... Even as late as the beginning of the nineteenth century, however, nine-tenths of Christian Europe was illiterate.”

“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.”

Age Names Middle Honesty Slave Middle Ages Antiquity Serfs

Book:Bakunin on anarchism

Source: Bakunin on anarchism

“Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet perhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire; or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside. Even these seek in vain through middle age for any corner of the republic that preserves so much of what is fair, gracious, charming and honorable in American life.”

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