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How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?

Zsa Zsa Gabor
US (Hungarian-born) actress (1919 - )

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

Robert Frost
US poet (1874 - 1963)

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, 1952
US editor & reformer (1897 - 1980)

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

William Safire
US columnist & speechwriter (1929 - )

Thank God kids never mean well

Lily Tomlin
US actress & comedienne (1939 - )

[On recognizing China] But if you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them. For instance, we all recognize the right honourable gentleman the member for Ebbw Vale.

Sir Winston Churchill
British politician (1874 - 1965)

Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here. . .

Stan Openshaw - Doomsday

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

Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC)

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC)

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Horace, Odes
Roman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC)

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
Roman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD - 180 AD)

What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.

W. Edwards Deming
US business advisor & author (1900 - 1993)

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine
US author & educator (1879 - 1951)

Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.

Abraham Lincoln
16th president of US (1809 - 1865)

War is hell, and I mean to make it so.

William Tecumseh Sherman

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914)
British humorist & novelist in US (1881 - 1975)

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
Austrian philosopher (1889 - 1951)

Thou shall not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, thou shall steal and thou must.

Branch Rickey/ Dogers GM (1943-50)

By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun.

Katherine Mansfield
New Zealand short story author (1888 - 1923)

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn?t mean he lacks vision.

Stevie Wonder

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