Quotes about Middle Road

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

Russian Proverb

One who sits between two chairs may easily fall down.

John Ashcroft

There are two things you find in the middle of the road—a moderate and a dead skunk.

Compare this with the earlier left wing version of Jim Hightower.

Plautus

In everything the middle road is best.

Ambrose Bierce

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Klemens von Metternich

Whoever has a principle, must go with it to the extreme, not hold by a middle.

John Dryden

Damned Neuters, in their Middle way of Steering, Are neither Fish, nor Flesh, nor good Red Herring.

Joan Didion

I have a theatrical temperament. I'm not interested in the middle road - maybe because everyone's on it. Rationality, reasonableness bewilder me.

Sukarno

To me, both the Declaration of Independence and the Communist Manifesto contain underlying truths, but the West doesn't permit a middle road.

Jeremy John Dunham 'Paddy'

I do not believe that our place is at the comfortable mid-point between the extremes of left and right.

Robert Frost

The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.

Anonymous

The man who straddles the fence too long usually develops a sore crotch.

Eugene McCarthy

Most political accidents happen in the middle of the road.

See Aneurin Bevan and James Hightower for similar sentiments.

Jim Hightower

There is nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.

Michael Bloomberg

The art of politics is to find something in the middle that satisfies most.

Javad Alizadeh

Politically I am neither left nor right! And this kind of political-ethical standpoint--being in the middle--usually brings about seclusion and isolation!

There are a few politicians who are neither left nor right in most countries. However, the reaction of the other politicians is almost always the same—deep suspicion. This tends to produce isolation from other politicians who are committed one way or the other. The middle of the roader opposes you at times if you are left or right. As such he/she is an enemy who can’t be trusted.

Aneurin Bevan

Playing on a fuddled fiddle, somewhere in the muddled middle.

Claud Cockburn

We never heard a politician so desperate not to offend conventional elite opinion while pretending to be fearless and forthright.

Obama was very much a centrist although he attracted harsh attacks of both extreme left and extreme right. Conservatives thought that he was much to socialistic and liberal, and liberals thought that he was under the thumb of the establishment.

Middle Road Quotes