In everything the middle course is best. [ Plautus ]
From the great,
Illustrious actions are a debt to Fame.
No middle path remains for them to tread,
Whom she hath once ennobled. [ Glover ]
In the dead vast and middle of the night. [ William Shakespeare ]
A middle way or course; any middle course. [ Motto ]
All great men come out of the middle classes. [ Emerson ]
As slender in the middle, as a cow in the waist. [ Proverb ]
You will go safest in the middle or in a middle course. [ Ovid ]
Labour is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art. [ Anon ]
Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of everything. [ Lacordaire ]
True valour lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness. [ Cervantes ]
Disputations leave truth in the middle, and party at both ends. [ Proverb ]
If you light the fire at both ends, the middle will shift for itself. [ Proverb ]
In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble. [ Plautus ]
The world is packed with good women. To know them is a middle-class education. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. [ Bacon ]
In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. [ Plautus ]
Without woman the two extremities of life would be without succor, and the middle without pleasure.
I scarcely exceed the middle age of man; yet between infancy and maturity I have seen ten revolutions! [ Lamartine ]
I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life. [ George MacDonald ]
It is an art without art, which has its beginning in falsehood, its middle in toil, and its end in poverty. [ From the Latin ]
A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections. [ J. Q. Adams ]
In modern England the ordinary habits of life and modes of education produce great plainness of mind in middle-aged women. [ John Ruskin ]
If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination. [ Dr. Johnson ]
In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories - the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt. [ James A. Garfield ]
Extremes are dangerous: a middle estate is safest; as a middle temper of the sea, between a still calm and a violent tempest, is most helpful to convey the mariner to his haven. [ Swinnock ]
In the youth of a State, arms do flourish; in the middle age of a State, learning; and then both of them together for a time; in the declining age of a State, mechanical arts and merchandise. [ Bacon ]
There is nothing like youth. The middle aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile, like most kings. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. Labor,
he in effect said, is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.
Turning then to another - And you,
I inquired, what do you consider as the great force in art?
Love,
he replied. In their two answers I found but one truth. [ Bovee ]
If flowers have souls,
said Undine, the bees, whose nurses they are, must seem to them darling children at the breast. I once fancied a paradise for the spirits of departed flowers.
They go,
answered I, not into paradise, but into a middle state; the souls of lilies enter into maidens' foreheads, those of hyacinths and forget-me-nots dwell in their eyes, and those of roses in their lips.
[ Richter ]
A woman at middle age retains nothing of the pettiness of youth; she is a friend who gives you all the feminine delicacies, who displays all the graces, all the prepossessions which Nature has given to woman to please man, but who no longer sells these qualities. She is hateful or lovable, according to her pretensions to youth, whether they exist under the epidermis or whether they are dead. [ Balzac ]
What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labors to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard. [ Charles Lamb ]