Middle Quotes

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
Aristotle

Political, Control, Perfect

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life, Age, Morning

I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
Barack Obama

Working, Last, Economy

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
Ronald Reagan

Time, Matter, Meeting

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
Aristotle

End, Whole, Action

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
Ayn Rand

Evil, Two, Wrong

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
George Bernard Shaw

Soul, Another, Earth

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
Robert Frost

Dance, Secret, Knows

The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost

Place, Road, Worst

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Margaret Thatcher

Down, Road, Dangerous

You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.
Charlie Sheen

Love, Hate, Live

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.
Warren Buffett

End, High, Maybe

Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.
Charlie Sheen

Life, Business, Dad

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
Bill Vaughan

Age, Youth, Year

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

Future, Past, Nation

I'm a warrior for the middle class.
Barack Obama

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.
Mitt Romney

Family, Health, History

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.
Barack Obama

Put, Last, Economy

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.
Voltaire

Excellent, Top, Bottom

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
Margaret Mead

Work, Age, Learning

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
Barack Obama

Issue, East, Region

We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.
Barack Obama

Mind, Special, Sit

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.
Ray Bradbury

Politics, Hate, Political

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.
Mike Tyson

Time, End, Book

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
Ogden Nash

Age, Hope, Home

In politics the middle way is none at all.
John Adams

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.
Mitt Romney

Government, Strong, Help

And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.
Mitt Romney

Life, Marriage, Religion

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
P. J. O'Rourke

Good, Die, Read

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.
Gilda Radner

End, Hard, Perfect

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