#middle age

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

— Robert Runcie

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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

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

— Bennett Cerf

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Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#bodily #brain #brain power #complicated #days

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

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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

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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

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It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

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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