Quotes of: Middle-ages Keyword

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

C. S. Lewis

During the Middle Ages, Jews were members of a semi-independent polity within a larger polity.

David Novak

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

Umberto Eco

What I want to know is, in the Middle Ages, did they do anything for Housemaid's Knee? What did they put in their hot baths after jousting?

Tono-Bungay

In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I haven't actually counted the heads.

Karen Maitland

At the end of the Middle Ages, nobody would ever have expected the monasteries to vanish from the scene within a generation - yet they did. Change does happen.

Rowan Williams

I'm not always in that good with middle-aged heterosexual men.

Kathy Griffin

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Bill Vaughan

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

Sigmund Freud

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

Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles.

Joshua Foer

The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well.

Richard Flanagan

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

Kin Hubbard

It's like suddenly in the Middle Ages, people figured men should be in charge of women's bodies since they were in charge of pretty much everything else

Cunt: A Declaration of Independence

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

The Heart of Things: Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century

I keep in too many of the words I need to let out. And then I let out too many of the words I need to keep in.

Pre Middle Age: 40 Lessons in Growing the Hell Up

The first door in the hall leads to youth, the second door leads to middle age, and the third door leads to the bathroom. But knock first, because I think grandpa’s in there.

This Book Has No Title

Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.

John Shelton Reed

The history of learning amounts to a history of specialization.

Historians In The Middle Ages

Underneath this tired, middle-aged exterior, I'm an 11 year old kid.

Henry Selick