Meanest Quotes

111 Meanest quotes by 93 unique authors

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… — P.D. James
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… — Frederick Douglass
Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything. — Dixie Lee Ray
The beanball is one of the meanest things on Earth and no decent fellow would use it. The beanball is a potential murderer. If I… — Walter Johnson
A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government. — John Winthrop
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… — Geoffrey Canada
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… — Saint Augustine
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.… — Joseph Addison
It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either… — David Hume
For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth. — Hunter S. Thompson
I remember how the other kids used to say that old Mister Swenson was the meanest man in town. But I said I thought he… — Jack Handey
They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions… — Samuel Johnson
What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind. — Henry David Thoreau
By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of… — Henry David Thoreau
An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the… — Saint Augustine
The meanest flowret of the vale, / The simplest note that swells the gale, / The common sun, the air, and skies, / To him… — Thomas Gray
John Wayne was the meanest, nastiest man with the worst attitude that I ever worked with. — Unknown Author
The meanest inhabitants by their constant attendance generally form the majority and outvote the gentlemen, merchants and all the better Inhabitants! — William Shirley
From the highest god to the meanest grass, the same power is present in all - whether manifested or not. We shall have to call… — Swami Vivekananda
Though neither happiness nor respect are worth anything, because unless both are coming from the truest motives, they are simply deceits. A successful man earns… — Richard Llewellyn
The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted. — Thomas de Quincey
My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot… — Joseph Howe
Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent. — Unknown Author
Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir… — Arthur Balfour
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… — Tryon Edwards

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