#middle age

We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#beautiful #certainly #images #important #influenced

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#litigation #middle #middle age #place #sex

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

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#hurricane #loves #middle #middle age #opera

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#allowed #eve #forced #late #middle

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#fear #few #few women #had #i

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

#did #discovery #distinguished #doing #exploration

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

#ago #been #being #civilization #difficulties

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