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Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure. -- Benjamin Franklin
In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed. -- Henry David Thoreau
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. -- William Wordsworth
I have worked with some of the meanest people in the world. You can't do anything to intimidate me. -- Amy Adams
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. -- A. C. Benson
Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything. -- Dixie Lee Ray
The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world. -- E. W. Howe
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest. -- Samuel Richardson
None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue. -- Mary Astell
I live in a world where there's magazines and blogs, and people feel like they are allowed to criticize me, and in the meanest way. -- Khloe Kardashian
Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father! -- John Pearson
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
I'm big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you're big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood. -- Brion James
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
I have this weird sort of Gemini thing where I can really be empathetic and a loving person. But if you piss me off, I can be one of the meanest, most sadistic people. -- Bill Burr
I find that in this day and generation, the meanest men have the lowest estimate of woman; that the greater the man is, the grander he is, the more he thinks of mother, wife and daughter. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility.' -- Geoffrey Canada
The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world's outstanding bureaucratic abomination - a tiny, airless closet deep in the labyrinth of the Capitol where some of the very meanest people on earth spend their days cleaning democracy like a fish. -- Matt Taibbi
You go on these Internet blogs and people say the meanest things. I'm a normal person. Just because I'm in the spotlight doesn't mean I'm God's gift to the world. I'm learning and making mistakes just like every other 17-year-old girl out there. -- Hayden Panettiere
The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future. -- Henry Lawson
My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve. -- Joseph Howe
I do find some of the meanest, most exclusionary people are the nerds. And they rebel against other nerds! What are you doing? As much as I love nerds and the nerd movement, the nerd-on-nerd violence is really bad. A lot of times, nerds are the meanest ones online. And also, the trolling can be very extensive because they're smart. -- Chris Hardwick
It was the meanest moment of eternity. -- Zora Neale Hurston
ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity. -- Ambrose Bierce
Pity it is to slay the meanest thing. -- Thomas Hood
A false modesty is the meanest species of pride. -- Edward Gibbon
A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts. -- Livy
The meanest thing in the world is the devil. -- Henry Ward Beecher
For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth. -- Hunter S. Thompson
The meanest life is better than the most glorious death. -- Euripides
Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities? -- Thomas Carlyle
Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world. -- Dorothy Parker
Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent. -- Ovid
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A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government. -- John Winthrop
That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known. -- Joaquin Miller
In the meanest hut is a romance, if you knew the hearts there. -- Karl August Varnhagen von Ense
What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind. -- Henry David Thoreau
A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts. -- Lord Byron
About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well. -- Harry S. Truman
The meanest and most hateful thing about money is that it even gives one talent. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels. -- William Wordsworth
John Wayne was the meanest, nastiest man with the worst attitude that I ever worked with. -- Jill Haworth
Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting. -- Benjamin Franklin
As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race... and the hearts of the meanest were humbled. -- Rudyard Kipling
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. -- Agnes Repplier
My Dad says that we're the meanest to the ones we love because we know they'll still love us. -- Delphine de Vigan
So little knows Any, but God alone, but perverts best things To worst abuse, or to their meanest use. -- John Milton
To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft. -- Samuel Johnson
[A personÂ?s] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. -- David Hume
I know that even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real character. -- Henryk Sienkiewicz
The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted. -- Thomas de Quincey
The meanest inhabitants by their constant attendance generally form the majority and outvote the gentlemen, merchants and all the better Inhabitants! -- William Shirley
Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself. -- Thomas Carlyle
I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I was alive. -- J. K. Rowling
The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding. -- Samuel Johnson
Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come? -- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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
If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights. -- Jane Addams
We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty. -- Hugh Blair
Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages. -- Abraham Cowley
I've said I want the meanest, toughest SOB I can find to protect America. And so that's why Trump's tone doesn't bother me. -- Robert Jeffress
Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity. -- Mary McCarthy
The meanest flowret of the vale, / The simplest note that swells the gale, / The common sun, the air, and skies, / To him are opening paradise. -- Thomas Gray
It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit. -- William Shakespeare
To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself. -- Henry Fielding
The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space. -- Edward Abbey
I know I am--that simplest bliss The millions of my brothers miss. I know the fortune to be born, Even to the meanest wretch they scorn. -- Bayard Taylor
God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her. -- Robert Browning
I don't like spiders; setting a trap is the art of low creatures! Who shall ever lay a trap shall be the meanest being on earth. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty. -- William Ralph Inge
The meanest hut with love in it is a palace fit for the gods, and a palace without love is a den only fit for wild beasts. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government. -- Socrates
The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree. -- Thomas Reid
Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work. -- Thomas Carlyle
Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it. -- Leo Tolstoy
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I hate all pain, Given or received; we have enough within us The meanest vassal as the loftiest monarch, Not to add to each other's natural burden Of mortal misery. -- Lord Byron
You know what made us the biggest, meanest, Big Mac eating, calorie-counting, world-dominating kick-ass powerhouse country in the history of the human race? The pursuit of happiness. Not happiness. The pursuit. -- Will Ferguson
Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies. -- Alexander Pope
Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source. -- Alexander Pope
A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city. -- P. D. James
Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen. -- Billy Wilder
For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others. -- Frederick Douglass
The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a completed day of work: "And behold, what he had done was good. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor. -- Saint Augustine
From the highest god to the meanest grass, the same power is present in all - whether manifested or not. We shall have to call forth that power by going from door to door. -- Swami Vivekananda
To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils. -- Tryon Edwards
Beasts, birds, and insects, even to the minutest and meanest of their kind, act with the unerring providence of instinct; man, the while, who possesses a higher faculty, abuses it, and therefore goes blundering on. -- Robert Southey

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