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Tag Name "Middling" (15)

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Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.
Donald Barthelme
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
Herodotus
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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
Iris Murdoch
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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
Martial
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Blondes have the hottest kisses. Red-heads are fair-to-middling torrid, and brunettes are the frigidest of all. It's something to do with hormones, no doubt.
Ronald Reagan
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Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.
Andrzej Sapkowski
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Barack Obama will go down alongside George W. Bush in that realm as middling presidents because both made too many mistakes to be categorized as an effective, good president.
Bill O'Reilly
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Ambition is never modest. If modesty means to have middling success, then I can only say: I'm not interested.
Emmanuel Macron
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If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.
Hildegard Knef
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The greatest dangers have their allurements, if the want of success is likely to be attended with a degree of glory. Middling dangers are horrid, when the loss of reputation is the inevitable consequence of ill success.
Lord Chesterfield
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Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down.
Robert Breault
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
Walt Whitman
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Prosperity of the middling and lower orders depends upon the fortunes and light taxes of the rich.
Andrew Mellon
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Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.
Benjamin Disraeli
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The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common pop(p)y seed. If the sand is too coarse the mortar will be short or brittle . . . If the sand is too fine the cement will shrink and crack after it has been used.
Canvass White