Quotes about mean
mean envy safe
Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. [Lat., Auream quisquis mediocritatem deligit tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula.] Horace
mean envy golden
There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
mean writing bears
Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem; Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror.]
mean land pieces
As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food.
mean europe class
What does it mean with regard to tactics, this fact that the proletariat of Western Europe stands all alone: that it has no prospect of any help whatsoever from any other class?
mean views defense
It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense. Herman Kahn
mean people together
I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict. Herbie Hancock
mean people african-american
One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.
meaning-of-life needs fame
You don't need the fame to be vital.
mean government evil
Government is essentially immoral. The State employs evil weapons to subjugate evil, and is alike contaminated by the objects with which it deals, and the means by which it works. Herbert Spencer
mean mad insanity
My means are sane, my motives and my object mad. Herman Melville
mean years one-day
The golden mean in ethics, as in physics, is the centre of the system and that about which all revolve, and though to a distant and plodding planet it be an uttermost extreme, yet one day, when that planet's year is completed, it will be found to be central. Henry David Thoreau
mean thinking hypocrisy
Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which would be more disreputable.
mean men hands
To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.
mean men solitude
As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any other period of my life; I mean that I had some.
mean sunshine moon
Men talk glibly enough about moonshine, as if they knew its qualities very well, and despised them; as owls might talk of sunshine,--none of your sunshine!--but this word commonly means merely something which they do not understand,--which they are abed and asleep to, however much it may be worth their while to be up and awake to it.
mean riches wealth
Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality.
mean men thinking
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right... Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.
mean men law
Law never made man a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well disposed are daily made agents of injustice.
mean environment ends
The improved means to the unimproved end.
mean exercise games
I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics.
mean political moral-freedom
What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?
mean luck development
That so many are ready to live by luck, and so get the means of commanding the labor of others less lucky, without contributing any value to society! And that is called enterprise! I know of no more startling development of the immorality of trade, and all the common modes of getting a living.
mean technology ends
Be wary of technology; it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end.
mean thinking perception
I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the surface ofthings. We think that that is which appears to be.
mean moral manners
Never buy anything with a handle on it. It means work. H. Allen Smith
mean home modesty
It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work. Gyorgy Ligeti
mean practice two
When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before. H. L. Mencken
mean house streets
One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house. Jean Genet
mean body refuse
Whoever refuses to obey the general will will be forced to do so by the entire body; this means merely that he will be forced to be free. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
mean blood law
Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.
meaningful goal desire
You're much more likely to reach your goals if they're your goals, speaking to your desires, rather than the desires of outside influences. Goals that are meaningful to you will keep you inspired and driven towards success. Jillian Michaels
mean effort action
Having the right to happiness means having the right to earn it, not having it given to you without effort and action on your part.