1. middle ages - Noun
2. Middle ages - Proper noun
the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance
Source: WordNetWe owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. André Maurois
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 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
I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed. Jerome K. Jerome
In the Middle Ages when people were convinced there were witches they certainly found them. This is a bit risky. Hans Blix
In the Middle Ages people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead. Charles Krauthammer