#middle age

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

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Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants. ↗

— John Shimkus

#asia #carved #during #empire #indigenous

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

— Francis Bacon

#age #companions #men #middle #middle age

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#age #change #chief #early #enforce

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

— Harold Coffin

#awkward #catching #father #father time #middle

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

— Mason Cooley

#i #lost #middle #middle age #mourning

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#litigation #middle #middle age #place #sex

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. ↗

— William Feather

#children #example #fun #good #good example

The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times. ↗

— James Buchan

#antiquity #commerce #cycle #famine #feast

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young. ↗

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#age #being #change #ever #many