Quotes of: Middle-ages Keyword

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

Irvin S. Cobb

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

Don Marquis

Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.

Richard Hughes

If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.

Goldwin Smith

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

Andre Gide

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

Bennett Cerf

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Lillian Gordy Carter

Middle -age is the time of life, that a man first notices - in his wife.

Richard Armour

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

William Feather

Middle school is for being like everyone else; middle age is for being like yourself. (430)

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The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.

George Santayana

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

Doris Day

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

E. Joseph Cossman

You find yourself approaching middle age, playing another scuzzy rock club.

Juliana Hatfield

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

Nelson Rockefeller

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.

Lytton Strachey

It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages.

Isaac Mayer Wise

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.

Doris Day

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

Jerome K. Jerome

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Franklin Pierce Adams

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.

Gerald Brenan