#middle age

Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished. ↗

— Dario Fo

#born #finished #inside #italy #man

Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the 17th and 18th centuries, in that we have the atomic menace. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#atomic #better #both #centuries #menace

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#been #blessed #by-product #middle #middle age

Some have called we rock and roll performers who never retire 'troubadours.' I enjoy this misnomer immensely. While there are many differences between me and my distant predecessors in L'Occitane, I do believe there is a lineage that connects us of the last 70 years with those romantic singers of the High Middle Ages. ↗

— Frank Black

#believe #between #called #connects #differences

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

— Mason Cooley

#i #lost #middle #middle age #mourning

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

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

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

— Lillian Gordy Carter

#age #economical #guy #keeps #lights

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway. ↗

— Tucker Carlson

#ages #anyway #evidence #middle #middle ages

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms. ↗

— Irvin S. Cobb

#begin #emotions #exchange #middle #middle age