Mean Quotes

The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress. (Confucius)
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. View quote
Henry Adams
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit. View quote
Demosthenes
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. View quote
Horace
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. View quote
Socrates
What the superior person seeks is in themselves. What the mean person seeks is in others. View quote
Confucius
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. View quote
James Madison
All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music? View quote
Ozzy Osbourne
Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town. (George Carlin)
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products. View quote
Steve Jobs
I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth. View quote
Albert Finney
The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis. View quote
Luis Barragán
The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be 'What the hell you mean we're out of missiles?' View quote
Glenn Beck
I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else. View quote
James A. Garfield
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. (Helen Keller)
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film. View quote
David Cronenberg
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. View quote
Mark Twain
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