Meanings of mediocre men in English

The world is passing on to mediocre men who remember great men.

Small men are provincial, mediocre men are cosmopolitan, but the great souls are Universal.

Both Hoar and Cox were succeeded by mediocre men.

The result would be to favour mediocre men, or even in extreme cases the most inferior.

I think it undervalues gifts and fine achievement, and overvalues the commonplace virtues of mediocre men.

He questioned the realization of such a community because of the preponderance of conforming nonquestioning mediocre men.

That's the trouble with the mediocre men.

There are so many mediocre men that they are sure to get suited without giving you much anxiety.

This is why so many mediocre men are found in the mountains and oil fields prospecting for hidden wealth.

Formerly mediocre men succeeded to the pontifical throne at an age in which one breathes well only after resting.

The European and world statesmen, Roosevelt and possibly Churchill excepted, were mediocre men and no match for Hitler and Stalin.

How many mediocre men of both ancient and modern times, have been rendered illustrious by achievements which were mainly due to their associates!

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I think true equality for women will come when there are the same number of mediocre women as there are mediocre men in senior positions.

' Mediocre men go soberly on the highroads, but saints and scoundrels meet in the jails,' he smilingly quoted.

Mediocre men can endure failure; for, as Robert Louis the beloved has pointed out, failure is natural, but worldly success is an abnormal condition.