Famous quotes containing the words middle, point and/or bears:
“In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Think not, thou noble Roman,
That ever Brutus will go bound to Rome.
He bears too great a mind.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)