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Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf...

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Quote by Franklin P. Adams about olderness, age, old

However, Allied Printing brought the four of us into the...

However, Allied Printing brought the four of us into the middle class and kept us in the middle class thru the Depression of the 1930's.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about depression

I Should Say Snow the green turned to black the black to white I should say snow but the word is like blood: doesn't show unless there is a wound a wound in the middle of the silence I should say in the middle of the heart but the...

Quote by Stela Vinitchi Radulescu about poetry, magic, heart, blood, silence, word, music

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

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

Quote by Hank Aaron

There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about thinking, end

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle...

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Quote by Francis Bacon about olderness, man, age, old

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle...

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.

Quote by Derek Bailey about music

In politics the middle way is none at all.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Quote by John Adams about politics

That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is...

That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

The most perfect political community is one in which the...

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

Quote by Aristotel about politics, perfection

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able...

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

Quote by Orson Scott about being

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

Quote by Danny DeVito about chance, work

If you did well, you were rewarded with middle-class neighborhoods, and I was given a neighborhood with tar-paper shacks, and the people were painfully poor.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about nation, people

In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me.

Quote by Colin Firth

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

Quote by Herodotus about man

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally...

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about life

Tenants only lock themselves out in the middle of the...

Tenants only lock themselves out in the middle of the night... or on Christmas.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about real estate, christmas, night

If you drop a soldier in the middle of a desert with a rock, a hammer, and an anvil, tell him not to touch any of it, and come back two hours later, the anvil will be broken.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about war, rocks

If your working under the hood of a car and drop...

If your working under the hood of a car and drop something, it will always roll the middle of the car and just out of reach.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about cars

The tyre will will blow when in the middle of the mud.

The tyre will will blow when in the middle of the mud.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about cars

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