#middle age

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

#art #back #believe #bring #fancy

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

#am #any #architecture #cannot #church

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly. ↗

— Candice Bergen

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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. ↗

— Harold Coffin

#awkward #catching #father #father time #middle

I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts. ↗

— Umberto Eco

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Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#i #lost #middle #middle age #mourning

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

#beautiful #certainly #images #important #influenced

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

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. ↗

— Doris Day

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