Meanly Quotes

26 quotes by 21 authors

We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth. — Abraham Lincoln
Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men. — Henry David Thoreau
As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity:… — Thomas Paine
Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will not… — Samuel Johnson
Say and do what you mean, but never say and do it meanly. — Harvey Mackay
It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies. — John Milton
The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious,… — Edith Wharton
Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely,… — William Makepeace Thackeray
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the… — Abraham Lincoln
We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment good in itself, is not… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right. — Thomas Paine
Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all. — Vance Havner
While we're talking, time will have meanly run on... pick today's fruits, not relying on the future in the slightest. — Horace
As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises. — Abraham Lincoln
A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd. — Jean de la Bruyere
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall… — Abraham Lincoln
It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault, we both had nothing except patience, but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!) and I… — Rainer Maria Rilke
It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would… — Mary Renault
Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea. — Samuel Johnson
Alec drew his hand back with a low whistle. "The Inquisitor meant business." "Of course she did. I'm a dangerous criminal. Or hadn't you heard?"… — Cassandra Clare

Who Wrote These Meanly Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 26 Meanly Quotes as follows: