Middle Quotes - page 2

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. (Ogden Nash)
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. View quote
William Feather
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. View quote
Saul Bellow
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. View quote
Sigmund Freud
The Phrygians select a natural hillock, run a trench through the middle of it, dig passages, and extend the interior space as widely as the site admits. Over it they build a pyramidal roof of logs fastened together, and this they cover with reeds and brushwood, heaping up very high mounds of earth above their dwellings. Thus their fashion in houses makes their winters very warm and their summers very cool. View quote
Vitruvius
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night. View quote
Philip K. Dick
The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who can't write their own language. View quote
Luke Harding
It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness. View quote
Rollo May
Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age. (Candice Bergen)
In politics the middle way is none at all. View quote
John Adams
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. View quote
Ayn Rand
The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day When the sun is out and the wind is still You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, A cloud comes over the sunlit arch, A wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March. View quote
Robert Frost
There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge. View quote
Boris Johnson
In the Ngong Forest I have also seen, on a narrow path through thick growth, in the middle of a very hot day, the Giant Forest Hog, a rare person to meet. View quote
Karen Blixen
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. View quote
Emil Cioran
I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshipped or spat out. View quote
Joni Mitchell
I have often thought, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the Middle of Winter. View quote
Joseph Addison
For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations. View quote
George W. Bush
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious. (P. G. Wodehouse)
I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
Life, he realized, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters. View quote
Donald Trump
Or from Browning some 'Pomegranate,' which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning