Mean Quotes

"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."
-Mark Twain

"By trying, we can endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."
-Mark Twain

"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean."
-Mark Twain

"By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered."
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered."
-Andre Gide

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"Oh! don't use big words. They mean so little."
-Oscar Wilde

"There are tones of voices that mean more than words."
-Robert Frost

"It is impossible to say just what I mean!"
-T. S. Eliot

"Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace."
-Horace Mann

"When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean ... to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed."
-Niccolo Machiavelli

"I'm not a mean player. You'll notice I never pick on a player who has a number above 30."
-Mike Ditka

"What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others."
-Confucius

"The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress."
-Confucius

"A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something."
-Lois McMaster Bujold

"Sometimes people do things that hurt and it's not because they mean to. They just do. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with you, but you end up hurt because of it."
-Randy K. Milholland

"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."
-Thomas A. Edison

"Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them."
-Hermann Hesse

"Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist."
-Margaret Cho

"Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing."
-John Erskine

"While a few places failed, that doesn't mean other places won't fail in the future."
-Wayne Clough

"The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good."
-Bertrand Russell

"Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living."
-Harold Macmillan

"I don't see anybody who can beat us when we play our best. Does that mean we'll win state? Only time will tell."
-Steve Segadelli

"The premier didn't mean to say that there would be national elections for senators this fall. He clarified (to me) that there would be discussions this fall on Senate elections."
-Marisa Etmanski

"He is a complete goof and so stylish, I mean everything about Franz is about chic, it doesn't really matter if there's peace in Bosnia as much as if they're beautifully dressed at the peace table."
-Martin Short

"I wish I had a better answer than ? I don't know. I really don't. We'll have to see what happens. I mean, from what I understand, it's a very huge project. There's everything behind it. It's got everything going for it. We'll have to see."
-Tom Welling