Famous quotes containing the words middle, point and/or bears:
“Now, in my middle age,
about nineteen in the head I’d say,
I am rowing, I am rowing....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“The point is children lie to others for good and sufficient reasons, but they don’t kid themselves. They know who did what, but they feel no moral imperative to inform grownups.”
—Leontine Young (20th century)
“The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounce it true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)