“You will be safest in the middle.”
Book II, 137
Variant translation: You will go most safely by the middle way.
Metamorphoses (Transformations)
Original
Medio tutissimus ibis.
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Ovid 120
Roman poet -43–17 BCRelated quotes
“Talk you of tradition in middle of singularity.”
Sister Seventh twisted her head around to look out the windows at the foggy evening drizzle beyond. “Perplexity maximizes. Not understand singularity is discontinuity with all tradition? Revolution is necessary; deconstruct the old, ring in the new. Before, I questioned your sapience. Now, your sanity questionable; sapience not. Only sapient organism could exhibit superlative irrationality!”
Source: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 6, “Telegram from the Dead” (p. 144)
Clinton: 'Raise Taxes On The Middle Class!' 8-1-2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ua13_gYQn0; as quoted in "Hillary Promises ‘We Are Going To Raise Taxes On The Middle Class’ <nowiki>[Video http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/03/hillary-promises-we-are-going-to-raise-taxes-on-the-middle-class-video/</nowiki>"] by Derek Hunter, The Daily Caller (3 August 2016).
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016)
“Well, of course, they notice you. You always hide just in the middle of the limelight.”
Reply to T. E. Lawrence who complained of press attention.
Quoted by Harry Kessler in his diary, 14 November 1929 http://books.google.com/books?id=y_BJt918BHoC
1920s
“I can tell you I'm pretty middle-class.”
BBC Radio 4 Today program interview (12 April 1996)
“Without “big data”, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a freeway.”
Geoffrey Moore, title of book chapter in: The Business Book, 2014. Dorling Kindersley Ltd, p. 316
“I agree with you that in politics the middle way is none at all.”
Letter to Horatio Gates (23 March 1776)
1770s
“You can't start a diet in the middle of the week, that's just stupid.”
From The Jay Leno Show, November 2009