#middle age

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

— Sigmund Freud

#books #burned #burning #content #making

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

#always #ever #feel #good #man

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

#almost #begun #cooled #disappear #eager

In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion. ↗

— Robert Runcie

#because #middle #middle ages #now #people

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

#belong #breed #does #free #gather

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

#about #being #change #ever #many

The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

#also #beautiful #been #being #book

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#generals #i #knights #like #middle

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons. ↗

— Lillian Gordy Carter

#age #economical #guy #keeps #lights

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you. ↗

— Bennett Cerf

#bald #classmates #grey #middle #middle age