Friday, September 14, 2012

Meanest Quotes

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 

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 

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest. 
Samuel Richardson 

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. 
William Wordsworth 

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 

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 

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 

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 

Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything. 
Dixie Lee Ray 

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. 
A. C. Benson 

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 

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 

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

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