What if my words
Were meant for deeds. [ George Eliot ]
Ask why God made the gem so small,
And why so huge the granite?
Because God meant mankind should set
The higher value on it. [ Burns ]
Where more is meant than meets the ear. [ Milton ]
Things are often spoke and seldom meant. [ William Shakespeare ]
Perhaps the early grave
Which men weep over may be meant to save. [ Byron ]
No blank, no trifle, Nature made or meant. [ Young ]
It is no injury that is not meant an injury. [ Proverb ]
Wit and judgment often are at strife,
Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife. [ Pope ]
You eat up that grass, which I meant to make hay of. [ Proverb ]
There are, whom heaven has blessed with store of wit,
Yet want as much again to manage it;
For wit and judgment ever are at strife,
Tho' meant each other's aid, like man and wife. [ Pope ]
Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places. [ Bossuet ]
Had God meant me to be different, He would have created me different. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Fictions meant to please should have as much resemblance as possible to truth. [ Horace ]
I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when He thought of you first. [ George MacDonald ]
According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason. [ William Fleming ]
If you love something set it free. If it comes back it’s yours. If not, it was never meant to be. [ Source unknown ]
Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart. [ Beecher ]
Nature meant to make woman her masterpiece, but committed a mistake in the choice of the clay; she took it too fine. [ Lessing ]
With every anguish of our earthly part the spirit's sight grows clearer; this was meant when Jesus touched the blind man's lids with clay. [ Lowell ]
Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power, that is all. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken! [ Scott ]
A vulgar man is captious and jealous; eager and impetuous about trifles. He suspects himself to be slighted, and thinks everything that is said meant at him. [ Chesterfield ]
Philistine
must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the children of the light. [ Heine ]
It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place, as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend. [ Ruskin ]
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences, or asides, hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]