Meanly Quotes

We shall nobody save or meanly lose the last best hope. - Abraham Lincoln

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be. - Ralph W. Sockman

Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly. - William Makepeace Thackeray

Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel. - Margaret Cavendish

It was the winter wild, / While the Heaven-born child, / All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies. - John Milton

By an inferior man I mean one who knows nothing that is not known to every adult, who can do nothing that could not be learned by anyone in a few weeks, and who meanly admires mean things. - Henry Louis Mencken