Middle Classes

Famous quotes containing the words middle and/or classes:

    “Death cut the strings that gave me life,
    And handed me to Sorrow,
    The only kind of middle wife
    My folks could beg or borrow.”
    —Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

    “There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the palate.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)