middle quotes

I agree with you that in politics the middle way is none at all.

-John Adams
  Letter to Horatio Gates, 23 Mar.

The middle-management of Manhattan stared on, their faces as thin as credit cards.

- Martin Louis Amis
  Money.

Has he reconnected with the angry middle?

-Anonymous
  Listener's question on Clinton's rapport with the middle class after the State of the Union speech. In NPR broadcast, 26  Jan.

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura che   la diritta via era smarrita. In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood where the straight path was lost.

-Dante Alighieri originally Durante
c.1320  Divina Commedia,'Inferno', canto1, l.1^3.

  We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows. 339

- Robert Lee Frost
  'The Secret Sits', complete poem.

Bad as our urban conditions often are, there isnot a slum in the country which has a third of the infantile death- rate of the royal family in the middle ages.

-J(ohn) B(urdon) S(anderson) Haldane
 Daedalus, or Science and the Future.

I did not know I was a humorist. I have never been sure about it. In the middle ages,I should probably have gone about preaching and got myself burned or hanged.

-Jerome K(lapka) Jerome
  My Life and Times, ch.6.

And soft adorings from their loves receive Upon the honeyed middle of the night.

-John Keats
  Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems,'The Eve of St.  Agnes', stanza 6.

Suppose ourancestors had discovered nuclear power in the middle ages, and had decided to bury their radioactive fuel.

- Marjorie Lamb
  Two Minutes a Day for a Greener Planet.

This infant whose middle Is diapered still Will want to marry My daughter Jill. Oh sweet be his slumber and moist his middle! My dreams, I fear, are infanticiddle.

- (Frederic) Ogden Nash
  The Face Is Familiar,'Song to be Sung by the Father of Infant Female Children'.

Medio tutissimus ibis. You will go most safely by the middle way.

-Ovid full name Publius OvidiusNaso   4317
Daedalus speaking to his son, Icarus. Metamorphoses, bk.2, l.137 (translated by Peter Green).

People who are always praising the past And especially the times of faith as best Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages.

- Stevie (Florence Margaret) Smith
  NotWaving but Drowning,'The Past'.