#middle age

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

#alone #casualty #early #focus #hurt

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#became #characteristic #dwelling #form #hall

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

#best #fun #his #how #learned

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#ages #gunpowder #humanity #inventions #love

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

#arbitrary #childhood #cruelly #false #into

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#else #every #many #meet #met

Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age. ↗

— Elliot Paul

#beautiful #makes #middle #middle age #patience

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

#ages #been #boards #confidant #enough

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. ↗

— Horatio Alger

#chivalry #features #forms #history #institution

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

— E. Joseph Cossman

#begin #broad #change #middle #middle age