Famous quotes containing the words middle and/or archaic:
“After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers’ glory—to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)