Mean Man Quotes

• The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.

  Confucius

  Happiness, Mean, Men

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There is nothing unholy or degrading about sexuality in itself, for by that means men and women join in a process of creation and in an expression of love

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Marriage, Mean, Men

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences.

  Confucius

  Mean, Men, Waiting

  James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.291

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• Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.

  Victor Hugo

  Mean, Men, Citizens

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.17

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• It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin.

  Confucius

  Mean, Men, Way

  Confucius (2009). “The Confucian Analects, the Great Learning & the Doctrine of the Mean”, p.431, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A whole big, giant world full of men. Men with blue eyes. Brown eyes. Green eyes. And indescribable shades in between. Tall men. Short men. Skinny men. Built men. And all combinations thereof. Nice men (so I've heard, but never really seen). Mean men. Decent men, indecent. And who knows which is the best kind to have, to hold, to love? I'd say, with so many men in the world, it would pay to sample a few. Scratch that. More than a few. Lots and lots. And then a few more. And maybe, after years of research, you might find one worth not throwing back. But hey, the fun is in the fishing.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Fun, Nice, Eye

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• Right, but you know, what would any of us lose by losing our possessions. Maybe we would gain something, like relationships, like the beauty of good friends, intimacy, you know what I mean, man? Like we wouldn't be losing anything if we lost our stuff, we'd be gaining everything.

  Donald Miller

  Mean, Good Friend, Men

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.122, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The superior man has a dignified ease without pride. The mean man has pride without a dignified ease.

  Confucius

  Mean, Pride, Men

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• You know, the people who do indie film and decide who gets those little budgets? They're mean, man. They're cold and very cool-oriented.

  Louis C. K.

  Mean, Men, People

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• If we betake ourselves to the statistical method, we do so confessing that we are unable to follow the details of each individual case, and expecting that the effects of widespread causes, though very different in each individual, will produce an average result on the whole nation, from a study of which we may estimate the character and propensities of an imaginary being called the Mean Man.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Character, Mean, Science

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• In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.

  Plato

  Mean, Men, Order

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• A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Ambition, Mean

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• Break into Alton Towers! I would… break into McDonalds. And I would kiss everyone. On the lips… before I left the world. I mean, man and female.

  Tom Meighan

  Mean, Kissing, Men

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• Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of the truth man is given at birth -- by man I mean man and woman.

  David Adam

  Reading, Mean, Men

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• The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe to shame; Buy cheap, sell dear; eat. drink, and sleep down-pillowed, deaf to moaning want; Pay tithes for soul-insurance; keep Six days to Mammon, one to Cant

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sleep, Mean, Men

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “The Works of Whittier, Volume III (of VII) Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform”, p.150, tredition

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• In my formative years the people who influenced me most were the Christian existentialists, I mean men like Munier and Kierkegaard and perhaps most of all Nicholas Berdyaev and in my travels I looked for one thing more than anything. I rarely discussed, probably mainly because of language difficulties, metaphysics with the various religious people of other groups I'd meet with. But I'd very much try to see how they were incarnated, how their particular soul was incarnated or took roots into reality.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Christian, Religious, Mean

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

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• That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Mean, Men

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.24, BookCaps Study Guides

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• It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Mean, Conceited

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.101, Chartwell

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• I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Nature, Women, Mean

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1803). “The works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: including her correspondence, poems, and essays”, p.28

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• Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing His secrets with us, God showing us Himself. In revelation, God is the agent as well as the object.

  J. I. Packer

  Mean, Men, Secret

  J.I. Packer (2016). “God Has Spoken”, p.47, Hachette UK

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• If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter.

  William S. Burroughs

  Mean, Men, Typewriters

  Source: realitystudio.org

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• Women still get angry at me. I mean, men go after me sometimes, but most of the bad responses come from women.

  Jessa Crispin

  Mean, Men, Sometimes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It doesn't take much of a rule to measure a mean man.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Anger, Mean, Men

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• A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Ambition, Mean, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.77

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• The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman.

  Whitney Chadwick

  Mean, Artist, Men

  Whitney Chadwick (2007). “Women, Art, and Society”

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