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Mean Quotes by Tom Robbins
- The Devil doesn't make us do anything. The Devil, for example, doesn't make us mean. Rather, when we're mean, we make the Devil. Literally. Our…
- Approfondement is a French word that means 'playing easily in the deep.'
- When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.
- Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.
- Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy. Just because you're cynical doesn't mean you're cool.
- Growing up is a trap," snapped Dr. Robbins. "When they tell you to shut up, they mean stop talking. When they tell you to grow…
- The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying…
- You know what I mean? Real and unreal, beautiful and strange, like a dream. It got me high as a kite, but it didn’t last…
- Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means.
- Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as…
- I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men.
- There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.
- Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its…
- Now tequila may be the favoured beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential treatment. In fact, tequila probably has betrayed as…
More Mean Quotes
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle