Quotes of Mean - somelinesforyou

“ The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a "but". ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ Might, could, would — they are contemptible auxiliaries. ”

- George Eliot

“ Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it. ”

- Cullen Hightower

“ The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness. ”

- Eric Sevareid

“ Hope, of all ills that men endure, The only cheap and universal cure. ”

- Abraham Cowley

“ They that deny a God destroy man's nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ To what base ends, and by what abject ways,Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise! ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms isn't spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of their scientists, the hopes of its children… This is not a way of life at all in any true sense… ”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches. ”

- John Ruskin

“ Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. ”

- Hosea Ballou

“ Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s. ”

- Jessica Simpson

“ If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average. ”

- M. H. Alderson

“ Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly. ”

- John Fund

“ The 500 most commonly used words have an average of 28 meanings each. ”

- Unknown

“ We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or grand moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ A woman may develop wrinkles and cellulite, lose her waistline, her bustline, her ability to bear a child, even her sense of humor, but none of that implies a loss of her sexuality, her femininity. ”

- Barbara Gordon

“ There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected. ”

- Robert Frank

“ The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man. ”

- Otto Weininger

“ Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ I am well aware that an addiction to silk underwear does not necessarily imply that one's feet are dirty. None the less, style, like sheer silk, too often hides eczema. ”

- Albert Camus

“ We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap. ”

- Ray Charles

“ Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty. ”

- Plato

“ Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. ”

- Ayn Rand

“ Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. ”

- Unknown

“ To worship God in spirit is the service and homage of the heart, and implies fear of God and trust in Him. ”

- Martin Luther

“ It's a season with few highs and few lows, but the general level of mediocrity is higher than it has been. ”

- Robert Bianco

“ A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained. ”

- James Madison

“ It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous. ”

- Eric Hoffer
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