Middle Ages Quotes - Page 5

• I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Regret, Men, Brain

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• The fundamental issue, when it comes to Europe's future, will be whether and how we manage to transfer the ideals that once made Europe great - especially its Christian roots - into today's changed world. No one wants to return to the Middle Ages.

  Walter Kasper

  Christian, Roots, Issues

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I really think that people have to think safety; taking risks for higher yield is a bad idea once you're in late or latish middle age.

  Paul Krugman

  Thinking, Yield, Ideas

  "Ask the Author Live: Larissa MacFarquhar with Paul Krugman". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. February 19, 2010.

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• In western civilization, the period ruled by mysticism is known as the 'Dark Ages' and the 'Middle Ages'. I will assume that you know the nature of that period and the state of human existence in those ages. The Renaissance broke the rules of the mystics. "Renaissance" means the "rebirth". Few people today will care to remind you that it was a rebirth of reason - of man's mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Dark, Men

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• We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.

  Hans Kung

  Thinking, Age, Today

  "'I Don't Cling to This Life'". Interview with Markus Grill, www.spiegel.de. December 12, 2013.

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• I'm the woman who used to think that middle-age spread was a cocktail dip.

  Phyllis Diller

  Thinking, Age, Cocktails

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• Women or mothers in middle age or mid career have valuable life experience and may offer an untapped recruitment pool.

  Hazel Blears

  Life, Mother, Careers

  "Britain needs more female spies to follow in the footsteps of these women spooks" by Jason Beattie, www.mirror.co.uk. March 6, 2015.

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• In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Reading, Age, Middle

  Marshall McLuhan (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy”, p.148, University of Toronto Press

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• The time passes so quickly during these full and active middle years that most people arrive at the end of middle age and the beginning of later maturity with surprise and a sense of having finished the journey while they were still preparing to commence it.

  Robert J. Havighurst

  Maturity, Journey, Years

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• You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear of life. Let us pray to be delivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh, sweet sensations for us.

  James A. Garfield

  Life, Sweet, Tears

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• In middle age, going naked contributes little to public enjoyment.

  Mason Cooley

  Age, Naked, Gone

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• Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age.

  Mason Cooley

  Age, Eras, Worship

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• In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise.

  Mason Cooley

  Real, Rude, Feelings

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• In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Age, Looks, Too Much

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• We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol of the city. In the modern world, its place could be taken by the university.

  Roger Revelle

  Taken, Cities, Age

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• Until the end of the Middle Ages, and in many cases afterwards too, in order to obtain initiation in a trade of any sort whatever--whether that of courtier, soldier, administrator, merchant or workman--a boy did not amass the knowledge necessary to ply that trade before entering it, but threw himself into it; he then acquired the necessary knowledge.

  Philippe Aries

  Boys, Order, Soldier

  Philippe Ariès (1962). “Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life”, Vintage

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• When women reach the age of maturity, Mother Nature sometimes overworks their frustration to the point of irrationalism. Like themiddle-aged man...who finds himself looking longingly at a girl in her early twenties.

  Mark Hanna

  Girl, Mother, Women

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• Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages.

  David Lodge

  Believe, Epidemics, Age

  David Lodge (1984). “Small world: an academic romance”, Harvill Secker

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• Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world; and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agony—decaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves in their twenties—the men of the mind, who could have provided their earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Men, Essence, Agony

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• The greatest tragedy in the history of Christianity was neither the Crusades nor the Reformation nor the Inquisition, but rather the split that opened up between theology and spirituality at the end of the Middle Ages.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Age, Splits, Spirituality

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• 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.

  Marianne Williamson

  Fate, Age, Desire

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• 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.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Moving, Talking, Cities

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• 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.

  Danielle Dutton

  Track, Age, Next

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I definitely have a kind of Stockholm Syndrome for superhero movies because it's very clear that's the era we're in. It's like Christianity in the Middle Ages.

  Wesley Morris

  Superhero, Age, Eras

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Most established novelists are writing books informed by experiences gained in their youth. Middle age is not the best time to be changing smartphones every six months or adopting new technology platforms - because we tend to get slower and less accommodating to change as we age.

  Charles Stross

  Book, Writing, Technology

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