Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?
Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.
The meanest inhabitants by their constant attendance generally form the majority and outvote the gentlemen, merchants and all the better Inhabitants!
A democracy is. . . accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government.
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.
You know what made us the biggest, meanest, Big Mac eating, calorie-counting, world-dominating kick-ass powerhouse country in the history of the human race? The pursuit of happiness. Not happiness. The pursuit.
Do we, mad as we all are after riches, hear often enough from the pulpit the spirit of those words in which Dean Swift, in his epitaph on the affluent and profligate Colonel Chartres, announces the small esteem of wealth in the eyes of God, from the fact of His thus lavishing it upon the meanest and basest of His creatures?
[A persons] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.
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.
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 for beauty or value. Art is only the under-workman, and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces, which come from the hand of the master.
The meanest and most hateful thing about money is that it even gives one talent.
The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.
Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite.
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost. . . but still, I was alive.
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.
The meanest life is better than the most glorious death.
In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.
