Right now there is a paradox: We spend more than any industrialized country, but our health is fair to middling among other developed nations.

FORBES: Elizabeth H. Bradley

Those who, on inquiry, admit that their health and fortunes are fair-to-middling navigate carefully between the twin dangers of boastfulness and curmudgeonliness, while gesturing in a chin-up sort of way towards the possibility of future improvement.

ECONOMIST: Bad language