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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature middle age, soured, cynical, unproductive.”

Age Jobs Young Challenges Ability Middle Tests Workers Cynical Decline Middle Ages Premature Unproductive Knowledge Workers

Author:Peter Drucker

“I got booted out third, but to me [Last Comic Standing] was a lot like Rambo II...I don't really remember much...there was rats, people bombing, screaming, yelling, and a middle aged guy with a shaved chest got beat by somebody from the Viet Cong.”

People Lasts Remember Guy Middle Beats Standing Thirds Comic Chests Rats Middle Ages Bombing Yelling Middle Aged Rambo Viet Cong

Author:Rob Cantrell

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

Age Pleasure Middle Eating Middle Ages Eating Out

Author:Rick Astley

“I wonder how long this word will last, governed exclusively by the merciless, inhuman and immoral criteria of global economy. Seeing the shadow of distant islands, I imagined one still inhabited by a tribe of poets set aside for when, after the middle age of materialism, humanity will have to start to put other values into his existence.”

Long Stills Age Lasts Values Humanity Existence Wonder Economy Seeing Middle Poet Shadow Islands Materialism Tribes Immoral Middle Ages Criteria Inhuman Global Economy

Author:Tiziano Terzani

“I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.”

Ifs Thinking Age Middle Conscience Aging Fifty Middle Ages Best Times Degeneration Fatty

Book:More Lay Thoughts of a Dean

Source: More Lay Thoughts of a Dean

“We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.”

“Claude Debussy defined the guitar as an expressive harpsicord. I believe that is the best definition ever given of the Spanish guitar. This phrase is the starting point for my Concierto de Aranjuez Our guitar is the only survivor of the rich and anarchic instrumental wildlife of the Middle Ages.”

Believe Age Given I Believe Rich Middle Guitar Starting Definitions Defined Phrases Survivor Middle Ages Wildlife Starting Point Expressive Debussy

Author:Joaquin Rodrigo

“Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.”

Trying Years Long Enough Age Realizing Middle Newspapers Magazines Thirty Recipes Middle Ages Thirty Years

Author:Bill Vaughan

“These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic calligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.”

Knows Hands Age Form Purpose Black Attitude Middle Stones Greek Melancholy Peculiar Revealing Middle Ages Gothic Calligraphy

Author:Victor Hugo

“The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it and we adopt it, like all the rest of the world, to characterize the architecture of the second half of the Middle Ages, where the ogive is the principle which succeeds the architecture of the first period, of which the semi-circle is the father.”

World Firsts Age Father Half Accepting Principles Middle Periods Succeed Architecture Circles Employed Middle Ages Gothic

Book:The Works of Victor Hugo

Source: The Works of Victor Hugo

“Last night was Super Tuesday - a 10-state GOP Primary orgy. A big, sweaty pile of lever-yankin Republican voters. And like most orgies, it involves a bunch of middle aged guys who are not appealing to women.”

States Bigs Lasts Night Guy Middle Republican Bunch Primaries Voters Last Night Middle Ages Tuesday Middle Aged Gop Levers

Author:Stephen Colbert

“The Great Recession is not imaginary, and the effects loom large. There was an article in the NYT about the galloping death rate among white men in middle age. Higher than among any other demographic, etc. Mostly death by drugs, alcohol, or suicide. Many of them rural. My feeling is that it's many people who haven't been able to get back into the work force. Reg Morse is an example of the problem.”

“I am too old to fawn upon a nurse, Too far in years to be a pupil now.”

Years Age Education Learning Nurse Middle Ages Pupils Fawns

Book:The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes

Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes

“Had today's technophobic zealots [environmental activists] been in charge in previous centuries, we would have to roll human progress back to the Middle Ages - and beyond, since even fire, the wheel and organic farming pose risks, and none would have passed the "absolute safety" test the zealots demand. Putting them in charge now would mean an end to progress, and perpetual deprivation for inhabitants of developing nations.”

“At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality].”

Men Kids Age Realizing Accepting Middle Baby Fifty Forty Mortality Ignored Middle Ages Boomers Baby Boomer

Author:John Travolta

“Instead of facing a crisis as I approached middle age, I discovered that a new and better life lay before me. I called the process of discovery 'halftime,' and the outcome led to my second half.”

Age Process Half Middle Discovery Crisis Lays Outcomes Better Life Middle Ages Halftime

Author:Bob Buford

“Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology was given at Cardiff University last year. Astrology is not mere superstition but contains some psychological facts (like theosophy) which are of considerable importance. Astrology has actually nothing to do with the stars but is the 5000-year-old psychology of antiquity and the Middle Ages.”

Years Facts Age Lasts Courses Given Stars Psychology Middle Importance Mere University Psychological Gates Professors Superstitions Last Year Astrology Middle Ages Knocking Antiquity Cardiff

Author:Carl Jung

“Middle age is when, whenever you go on holiday, you pack a sweater.”

Age Middle Goes On Holiday Packs Middle Ages Sweaters

Author:Denis Norden

“There is one bit of advice given us by the ancient Greeks, and by the Jews in the Old Testament, and by the great Christian teachers of the Middle Ages, which the modern economic system has completely disobeyed. All these people told us not to lend money at interest; and lending money at interest - what we call investment - is the basis of our whole system.”

Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

“I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.”

Men Want Age Young Nature Middle Young Man Smoking Weed Attributes Marijuana Middle Ages Soothing

Book:Three Men in a Boat (illustrated) + Three Men on the Bummel + Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: The best of Jerome K. Jerome

Source: Three Men in a Boat (illustrated) + Three Men on the Bummel + Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: The best of Jerome K. Jerome

“Mindfulness is the key to everything, and this is especially true when one approaches the cultural portal known as "middle age." This is when people mindlessly believe that it's normal to get diseases and start to fall apart. But the truth is that midlife is the time when people need to wake up and be far more mindful about their everyday habits and thinking patterns.”

People Thinking Needs Believe Age Fall Known Middle Keys Habit Truth Is Disease Normal Approach Mindfulness Wake Up Everyday Patterns Falling Apart Middle Ages Portal Midlife

Author:Christiane Northrup

“One of the great sadnesses of my life, as I take stock at middle age, is the sense that the adventure largely ended by the time I was twenty-five.”

Age Five Sadness Middle Adventure Twenties Middle Ages Twenty Five

Author:Jon Weisman

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

Men Age Young Marriage Wife Middle Young Man Companion Old Man Nurse Wedding Mistress Middle Ages Best Marriage Wives And Mothers Great Wife Young Wife

Author:Francis Bacon

“At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.”

Kind Shows Age Middle Regret Folly Fifteen Middle Ages Resonance

Author:Charles Busch

“I have a feeling there is no ideal situation, unless she could go back in time and be 22 again. I think some of it is just kind of the shock of realizing that you're approaching middle age, or that you are middle-aged and kind of coming to terms with that in whatever incremental ways.”

Thinking Way Kind Feelings Age Term Realizing Situation Middle Ideals Shock Middle Ages Middle Aged Back In Time Go Back In Time

Author:Amanda Peet

“I have enormous respect for Derek Parfit, although he seems to me bound within an unfortunate philosophical tradition - rather like the extraordinarily brilliant exponents of Ptolemaic astronomy in the Middle Ages.”

Seems Age Middle Tradition Philosophical Bounds Brilliant Astronomy Enormous Unfortunate Middle Ages Exponents

Author:Philip Kitcher

“I do know middle age can bring greater depth, greater wisdom, greater capacity for love, greater capacity for relationship, greater consciousness and desire to serve and awareness of the fate of mankind - all these wonderful things, yes. And I know I'm getting there.”

Knows Age Desire Consciousness Greater Fate Wonderful Middle Mankind Awareness Capacity Depth Wonderful Things Middle Ages

Author:Marianne Williamson

“It is not simply that these two cities are perched side by side at the edge of the Pacific; it is that adolescence sits next to middle age, and they don't know how to relate to each other. In a way, these two cities exist in different centuries. San Diego is a post-industrial city talking about settling down, slowing down, building clean industry. Tijuana is a preindustrial city talking about changing, moving forward, growing. Yet they form a single metropolitan area.”

“The reason the middle section switches to third person is, well, this is middle age. This is the part in her life where she loses track of something that was driving her and has to figure out what's going to drive the next part of her mission, this mission to be an author. I had to push back away from her for a while before we could come up to that really lyrical close third in the final section.”

Wells Persons Reason Age Next Loses Middle Figures Thirds Finals Track Come Up Missions Driving Sections Middle Ages Lyrical Third Person

Author:Danielle Dutton

“I had no intention of providing any answers or solutions, because you'd only look a fool, but I did want to talk about what it's like to be in a state where you're wondering. And perhaps I was also receptive to the fact I was entering middle age and those thoughts come - to pretend that they don't come is just crazy.”

Want Looks States Facts Age Answers Wonder Crazy Middle Fool Solutions Intention Providing Entering Middle Ages Receptive

Author:Peter Morgan

“Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract.”

Years Long Ideas Age Given Cases Middle Periods Mathematics Abstract Long Ago New Ideas Mathematician Middle Ages Given Up Renaissance

Author:Benoit Mandelbrot

“Since the Middle Ages, people have been writing about angels. Angelology was actually at one point a scholastic discipline.”

People Writing Has Beens Age Middle Discipline Angel Middle Ages Scholastics

Author:Danielle Trussoni

“[My father] had a massive middle-age breakdown. And left the family. And then it just completely fell apart. And my mother was heartbroken, just completely devastated. To make ends meet we started selling off all our possessions.”

Ends Age Mother Father Left Middle Possession Selling Massive Heartbroken Middle Ages Breakdown Devastated

Author:Bryan Cranston

“Almost every modern literary form existed in Hebrew two thousand years ago. And, yes, it existed even during the middle ages.”

Years Two Age Form Modern Middle Thousand Years Ago Thousand Years Middle Ages Hebrew

Author:Amos Oz

“In middle age I've begun to embrace stress reducing behaviors. Just in doing yoga, for example, my health has improved dramatically.”

Age Middle Example Behavior Yoga Stress Embrace Middle Ages Reducing

Author:James Redford

“There is a creative pleasure, which, for instance, the artisan in the Middle Ages, or in a country like Mexico, still today has - namely the pleasure of creating something. You find quite a few skilled workers who still have that pleasure: maybe in a steel mill; maybe a worker who works with a complicated machine - he has a sense that he is creating something.”

Stills Country Age Today Pleasure Creative Middle Creating Machines Workers Complicated Instance Mexico Steel Middle Ages Mills Creating Something Artisans Skilled Workers

Author:Erich Fromm

“It was stone carvers in ancient Rome, scribes in the Middle Ages, all the way through Gutenberg to the present day. That's a pretty long track record. More likely we may reach a point where each one of us is a typographer with our own custom proprietary typeface.”

Way May Long Age Records Middle Stones Ancient Track Customs Rome Middle Ages Present Day Track Record Ancient Rome Scribes Typefaces Carver Gutenberg

Author:Michael Bierut

“The Jews were the money-lenders of the Middle Ages so there's a stereotype of the slightly or more than slightly dishonest business man and this stereotype covers and obscures all the facts.”

Men Facts Age Middle Jew Stereotype Middle Ages Business Man Lenders Money Lenders

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“My doctor told me that I really should lose some weight. "You're mildly obese," he said. And I thought, "Well, who couldn't afford to lose 20 or 30 pounds?" He said, "Well, a person in your category." I said, "What is that category, doctor?" He said, "Well, you're what I call upwardly middle aged." And I said, "I forgive you for everything."”

Should Wells Persons Said Loses Middle Doctors Weight Forgiving Pounds Categories Middle Ages Middle Aged Obese I Forgive You

Author:Maya Angelou

“It's an American thing, but it's particularly a southern thing, and its romanticization is hyper-Southern. And it's still irresistible to me, even in middle age. There's something that pulls me to that, but at the same time, I have this increasing awareness of how banal it really is - that evil is inherently banal.”

Stills Age Evil Middle Awareness Southern Middle Ages Irresistible Hyper

Author:William Gibson

“Men's gender problems cause them a lot of suffering. There is a massive spiking suicide rate in middle age for men and a cultural attitude to male friendship that is destructive.”

Men Problem Age Suffering Causes Attitude Middle Suicide Males Rate Gender Destructive Massive Middle Ages Male Friendship

Author:Stephen Marche

“Our male-dominated culture tends to define success in terms of wealth, fame, power, the reaction of others. Women are fed a version that includes personal fulfilment through marriage and motherhood in addition to professional acclaim and of course we must look sexy but not too sexy and then graciously disappear when we hit middle age.”

Looks Age Culture Courses Term Wealth Middle Fame Males Sexy Motherhood Disappear Reactions Versions Feds Middle Ages Fulfilment Acclaim Define Success

Author:Catherine Mayer

“It's funny to see my friends going through that middle-age thing about losing their hair. I went through it in college. They all say, "Oh my God, I'm getting old. I'm never getting laid again." Shut up. Yes, you are.”

Age Middle College Hair Losing My Friends Shut Up Getting Old Middle Ages Getting Laid

Author:Kenny Chesney

“Sometimes people have said that Islam, in its own calendar, is still only in the Middle Ages. It's still in the fifteenth century or whatever. And Christianity in the fifteenth century, after all, was full of inquisitions and burnings at the stake, and so on and so on. So give Islam time, and it will reach the point of maturity that other religions have. But Mormonism is much younger than Islam, and it's got there already. So I don't think that's an argument that works.”

People Thinking Giving Said Stills Sometimes Age Christianity Middle Century Argument Islam Burning Maturity Stakes Middle Ages Calendars Inquisition Mormonism Burning At The Stake

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Gay people, certainly gay people of my generation, at least of a certain echelon - middle-class Americans - have binocular vision. We all are raised by straight people and grow up with straight people and in straight families, but we all have this totally other way of looking at things. Increasingly as I get deeper into middle age, that is why I resist plunking for any one camp. Because I have this delicious sort of experience of being able to see things in two ways.”

People Age Vision Growing Up Gay Middle Ages Gay People

Author:Daniel Mendelsohn

“In Iran, the women are like Italian women, they rule the house inside. But it's full of life. The history is very rich. The mystic of the Middle Ages. We have to learn from them. They influence all the philosophers when they came to Europe all those many many years ago.”

Age House Rich Influence Philosopher Italian Middle Ages Mystic

Author:Juliette Binoche

“The religious conflicts of the Reformation era were never simply and only about religion, because religion during this era as in the Middle Ages that preceded it, informed and was meant to inform every domain of life. Violence involving religion and touching other areas of life took many forms: from the Protestant destruction of Catholic religious art and objects in iconoclasm, to Catholic executions of Protestants who refused to renounce their views, to major destructive conflicts such as the French Wars of Religion and the Thirty Years' War.”

Art War Age Religious Violence Conflict Destruction Catholic Touching Middle Ages

Author:Brad Stephan Gregory

“We have no functioning parliament in Egypt and months ago Mohammed Morsi assumed legislative functions. Now he's decided that there should be no opposition to the laws that he makes and that he is authorized to pass any national security measure. It is difficult to be more absolutist than that. And the constitutional convention - what a sad gathering; it threatens to send us back to the darkest period of the Middle Ages.”

Age Difficult Security National Security Middle Ages

Author:Mohamed ElBaradei

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