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The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages. — Bill Gates

Western music in the Middle Ages was performed in these stone-walled gothic cathedrals, and in architecturally similar monasteries and cloisters. — David Byrne

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

The textile industry was the automobile industry of the Middle Ages, — Barbara W. Tuchman

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

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway. — Tucker Carlson

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

We forget how bawdy and brutal the Middle Ages were. — Karen Maitland

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

When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation ... they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages. — Lee Iacocca

Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages. — Hans Arp

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

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

Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; they were marvelously inconsistent. — Thomas Cahill

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

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

There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages. — Richard Lederer

You know the three Ages of Man, don't you?" Hodges asks. Pete shakes his head, grinning. "Youth, middle age, and you look fuckin terrific. — Stephen King

Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just — Michela Wrong

The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'. — June Whitfield

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

But in the Middle Ages people were convinced there were witches. They looked for them and they certainly found them. — Hans Blix

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed. — Jerome K. Jerome

In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud. — Marshall McLuhan

We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today. — Hans Kung

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

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages. — Lytton Strachey

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

I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts. — Umberto Eco

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

The intolerance of the Middle, and even later, Ages, is a fact all too familiar to every one. — Ethan A. Hitchcock

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

He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour . — Andrew Dickson White

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

What I want to know is, in the Middle Ages, did they do anything for Housemaid's Knee? What did they put in their hot baths after jousting? — H.G.Wells

It's not like the Middle Ages, when you had the Church and the aristocracy keeping everything nice and stagnant. — Kevin Hearne

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