#middle age

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does. ↗

— Gerald Brenan

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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

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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

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

— Andre Maurois

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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

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Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age. ↗

— Elliot Paul

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

— E. Joseph Cossman

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The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat. ↗

— Vilhjalmur Stefansson

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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ↗

— Bob Hope

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The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

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