Quotes and Sayings about Middle age
"Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net."
- Franklin Pierce Adams
(Related: Age, Golf, Middle age, Old, Years)
"The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages."
- Horatio Alger
(Related: History, Chivalry, Remarkable)
"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
- Francis Bacon
(Related: Age, Men, Middle age, Nurses, Old, Wives)
"Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music."
- Derek Bailey
(Related: Music)
"Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly."
- Candice Bergen
(Related: Age, First, Memory, Middle age)
"Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age."
- Candice Bergen
(Related: Age, Middle age, Self)
"We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety."
- Alain de Botton
(Related: People, Piety, Religious, Will)
"Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending."
- Anne Bradstreet
(Related: Age, Time, Middle age, Old, Youth)
"Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does."
- Gerald Brenan
(Related: Age, Death, Talent, Middle age)
"In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway."
- Tucker Carlson
(Related: Absence, Superstition, Theory)
"Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons."
- Lillian Gordy Carter
(Related: Age, Middle age, Romantic)
"Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you."
- Bennett Cerf
(Related: Age, Middle age, Old)
"Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms."
- Irvin S. Cobb
(Related: Emotions)
"Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature."
- Harold Coffin
(Related: Age, Nature, Time, Mother, Father, Middle age)
"Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera."
- Mason Cooley
(Related: Age, Middle age, Opera)
"Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth."
- Mason Cooley
(Related: Age, Middle age, Mourning, Youth)
"Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places."
- E. Joseph Cossman
(Related: Age, Change, Middle age, Mind)
"Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay."
- Doris Day
(Related: Age, Middle age, Youth)
"The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it."
- Doris Day
(Related: Age, Knowledge, Middle age)
"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
(Related: Age, Women, Fear, Living, Middle age, Reason, Worth, Years, Youth)
"I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age."
- James Ellroy
(Related: Age, Focus, Hurt, Middle age, Stress, Want)
"One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young."
- William Feather
(Related: Age, Change, Being, Middle age)
"Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age."
- William Feather
(Related: Age, Children, Example, Fun, Middle age)
"One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young."
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
(Related: Age, Change, Being, Middle age)
"Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished."
- Dario Fo
(Related: Italy, Man, Socialism)
"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."
- Sigmund Freud
(Related: Progress, Books, Content, Now)
"The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages."
- Stephen Gardiner
"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."
- Andre Gide
(Related: Age, Honor, Middle age)
"For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery."
- John Grierson
(Related: Discovery, Exploration, Focus, Universe, World, Years)
"Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?""
- Sydney J. Harris
(Related: Age, Life, Time, Middle age, Saying)
"We in middle age require adventure."
- Carolyn Heilbrun
(Related: Age, Adventure, Middle age)
"Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries."
- Adolf Hitler
(Related: War)
"Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle."
- Bob Hope
(Related: Age, Middle age)
"Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do."
- Richard Hughes
(Related: Age, Talent, Middle age)
"I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed."
- Jerome K. Jerome
(Related: Men, Nature, Want)
"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
(Related: Age, Fun, Middle age)
"Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever."
- Don Marquis
(Related: Age, Time, Man, Middle age, Thinking, Will)
"We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder."
- Andre Maurois
(Related: Love, Humanity, Inventions, Romantic)
"It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age."
- Margaret Mead
(Related: Age, Work, Childhood, Learning, Middle age, Old, Play)
"Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else."
- Ogden Nash
(Related: Age, People, Middle age)
"Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you."
- Ogden Nash
(Related: Age, Home, Hope, Middle age, Night)
"Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age."
- Elliot Paul
(Related: Age, Women, Middle age, Patience)
"If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums."
- Elizabeth Perkins
(Related: Museums, Night)
"The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate."
- J. M. Roberts
(Related: People, Kings, Laws, Post, Public)
"There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look"."
- Nelson Rockefeller
(Related: Age, Middle age, Youth)
"Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
(Related: Age, Life, Evening, Middle age, Shadows, Youth)
"In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion."
- Robert Runcie
(Related: Religion, People, Now, Tourists)
"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
(Related: Germany)
"Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the 17th and 18th centuries, in that we have the atomic menace."
- Pierre Schaeffer
(Related: World)
"In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity."
- Jack Schwartz
(Related: Christianity, Court)
"The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity."
- Gail Sheehy
(Related: Age, Middle age, Perceptions)
"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
(Related: People)
"Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church."
- Goldwin Smith
(Related: Architecture, Church, Emotion, Religious)
"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."
- Goldwin Smith
(Related: Art, Power, People, Fancy, Trying, Wishing)
"No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest."
- Goldwin Smith
(Related: History, Artist, Interest)
"If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication."
- Goldwin Smith
(Related: Life, Effort)
"But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him."
- Goldwin Smith
(Related: EnglFancy, Fraud, Legislation, Mind, Study, Will)
"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
(Related: Earth, Today, World)
"There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages."
- Lytton Strachey
"Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past."
- Lytton Strachey
(Related: Thought, Future, Past, Spirit, Style, Writing)
"None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter."
- Anne Tyler
(Related: Life, Age, Work, Influence, Middle age, Motherhood)
"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
(Related: Age, Middle age, New year, Youth)
"Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age."
- Gore Vidal
(Related: Age, Sex, Middle age)
"The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age."
- Orson Welles
(Related: Age, Life, Society, Class, Enemy, Middle age, Middle class)
"There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive."
- Jessamyn West
(Related: Communication, Fact, First, Forgetfulness, Ignorance)
"The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'."
- June Whitfield
(Related: Age, Middle age, Word, Youth)
"Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect."
- Earl Wilson
(Related: Age, Middle age)
"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."
- Isaac Mayer Wise
(Related: Civilization, Progress, Being, Difficulties, Now, Problems, Spirit, Years)
"It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages."
- Isaac Mayer Wise
"The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof."
- Anzia Yezierska
(Related: Children, Trouble)