Middle Ages Quotes
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The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages.
— Bill Gates
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity romantic love and gunpowder. — Andre Maurois
Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.
— Scott Adams
There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals.
— Ralph Borsodi
It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages.
— Isaac Mayer Wise
Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride!
— Bertha Von Suttner
Maimonides is the most influential Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages, and quite possibly of all time.
— David Zulberg
I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry knowledge from one monastery to the next monastery.
— Hans Ulrich Obrist
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
— Robert Runcie
How much easier it is to be poor than rich.
— Lois Leveen
I'm my age and I feel glorious.
— Betty Friedan
The textile industry was the automobile industry of the Middle Ages,
— Barbara W. Tuchman
His was a lonely, unorthodox conviction that war was man's ultimate failure.
— Sharon Kay Penman
If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.
— Goldwin Smith
We cannot hand our faith to one another ... Even in the Middle Ages, when faith was theoretically uniform, it was always practically individual.
— John Jay Chapman
We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.
— Neil Postman
Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.
— Adolf Hitler
The hard truths are the ones to hold tight. - Old Bear
— George R R Martin
Not everyone who spoke to you friendly was really your friend.
— George R R Martin
In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.
— Tucker Carlson
Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just
— Michela Wrong
In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.
— Marshall McLuhan
Fear comes with middle age.
— Lillian Hellman
I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.
— Jerome K. Jerome
Julian of Norwich's message is as relevant now as it was in the Middle Ages: God loves us completely, exactly as we are. "Then he
— Mirabai Starr
We forget how bawdy and brutal the Middle Ages were.
— Karen Maitland
No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.
— Goldwin Smith
factory's problems arose from the introduction of an industrial process in a country with a language and culture stuck in the Middle Ages. The
— Antonio Garrido
There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.
— Richard Lederer
As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament.
— Augustus De Morgan
In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners.
— Mikhail Bakunin
During the Middle Ages, Jews were members of a semi-independent polity within a larger polity.
— David Novak
During the Middle Ages some weddings were even held in cemeteries, since it was believed the life-affirming act of marriage could halt a plague.
— Anita Diamant
But if you cannot at once laugh at a thing or believe in it, you have no business in the Middle Ages. Or in the world for that matter.
— G.K. Chesterton
Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; they were marvelously inconsistent.
— Thomas Cahill
The intolerance of the Middle, and even later, Ages, is a fact all too familiar to every one.
— Ethan A. Hitchcock
Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.
— Karl Kraus
I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.
— Tamora Pierce
The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.
— Horatio Alger
The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.
— Harold Innis
Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.
— Mignon McLaughlin
All the world's Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.
— Richard Dawkins
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
— Sigmund Freud
The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.
— Stephen Gardiner
Big Stupid leapt up. Little Duane had a gun. Big Stupid punched Little Duane so hard his whole family tree died back to the Middle Ages.
— Victor Gischler
Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
...she felt safe with Nicolo, and feared nothing.
— Mirella Sichirollo Patzer
That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.
— Umberto Eco
I know Verona as I do my own body.
— Lois Leveen
Since the Middle Ages, people have been writing about angels. Angelology was actually at one point a scholastic discipline.
— Danielle Trussoni
The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages, only then will Israel be calm for the next 40 years.
— Michael Ben-Ari
The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.
— Anzia Yezierska
The three true ages of man are youth, middle age, and how the fuck did I get old so soon?
— Stephen King
Laughter is poison to fear. (Catelyn Stark)
— George R R Martin
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He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour .
— Andrew Dickson White
...seeing everything, yet a part of nothing.
— George R R Martin
The day will come when you need them to respect you, even fear you a little. Laughter is poison to fear.
— George R R Martin
