#middle age

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

— Candice Bergen

#casualty #correctly #first #i #i remember

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. ↗

— Anne Bradstreet

#getting #improving #middle #middle age #old

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. ↗

— Doris Day

#about #frightening #grow #knowledge #middle

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

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

But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#anyone #away #commercial #england #fancy

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

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

— Candice Bergen

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