Middle Quotes

• I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

  Hank Aaron

  Sports, Baseball, Practice

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• Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

  Cyril Connolly

  Class, Delirium Tremens, Apathy

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• Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

  Sydney J. Harris

  Funny, Witty, Two

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• Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

  Ayn Rand

  Future, Past, Class

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• I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Self, Pygmalion, Class

  Pygmalion (1916) act 5

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• It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Class, Safety, Looks

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1910*). “The English humourists. Critical reviews. The second funeral of Napoleon. The four Georges. Sketches and travels in London”

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• Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Age, Youth, Spending

  Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

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• I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.

  Rory Bremner

  School, Class, Childhood

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• There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

  Judith Martin

  Women, Class, America

  Judith Martin (1982). “Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior”, Scribner

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• Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Running, Class, People

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• My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Moving, Class, Parent

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• Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

  Gilda Radner

  Goodbye, Farewell, New Beginnings

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Time, Book

  Sigmund Freud (2016). “Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex (Annotated)”, p.18, Sigmund Freud

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• We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!

  Nancy Pelosi

  Fighting, Past, Class

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• It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.

  Silvan Shalom

  Easter, Democracy, Middle East

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• I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Travel, Huge, Funny Travel

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• We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.

  William Henry Hudson

  Believe, Years, Decay

  William Henry Hudson (1923). “The Collected Works of W. H. Hudson: A traveller in little things”

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• The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

  Earl Weaver

  Littles, Matter, Fields

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• If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Mother, Father, Class

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• Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence.

  Aeschylus

  Lying, Tyrants, Excellence

  "Oresteia".

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  In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

  Dante Alighieri

  Life, Dark, Journey

  Dante Alighieri (1961). “The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno”, p.23, Oxford University Press

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• It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Aunt, Middle East, World

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• Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Memorial Day, Men, Remembrance

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• Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

  Christopher Dodd

  Important, Income, Pell Grants

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• Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Civilization, Intuition, Beast

  Theodore Dreiser (2016). “Sister Carrie”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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