Clearly, imagining cannot be expected to mean exactly the same thing today as it did in the Middle Ages or antiquity. For one thing, Aristotle and Aquinas never watched television.
Diana Christensen: Well Max, here we are: Middle-aged man reaffirming his middle-aged manhood, and a terrified young woman with a father complex. What sort of script do you think we can make out of this?
As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got ...
By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.
Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; they were marvelously inconsistent.
Angry driver is angry human and how you drive is how you are. You can tell me the drive is different than the driver, but I haven't seen it to be.
Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
A rocking chair in the middle of a boxing ring. You know, for the lover in the fighter. Also as something more entertaining than watching boxing.
The party was dry, she was wet, and the sky was in the middle (cloudy, but no rain). Love was in the air, and that’s why I brought an umbrella.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.
I dress up as a middle-aged prostitute and do a game show.
The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television, and yet they are absolutely invisible.
I don't have any children; I have four middle-aged people.
For some reason I seem to be a massive hit with middle-aged women. I seriously don't know what it is.
When I think of the Middle Ages I think of castles, Catholicism, and taking your kids to soccer practice.
Love is a cat wearing a fur coat in a sauna in the middle of the Sahara Desert at noon. Trust me, I speak from personal experience.
I write love quotes for all ages—Teenagers, Young Adults, and even the Middle Ages—like between the years of 1200-1700. Erasmus loves my work. Well, probably he does, but as he’s dead you really can’t prove he doesn’t approve of my work.
Isn't it enough to be middle-aged and impeccably beautiful? Why must one be economically useful?
When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.
I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
