Mess
Mass; church service.
A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; as, a mess of pottage; also, the food given to a beast at one time.
A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table; as, the wardroom mess.
A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.
The milk given by a cow at one milking.
A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it.
To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others); as, I mess with the wardroom officers.
To supply with a mess.
To make a mess of; to disorder or muddle; to muss; to jumble; to disturb.
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Mess Quotations
I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!
Audrey Hepburn
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
Ronald Reagan
Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.
Ron Paul
What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
Henry Ford
If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
Will Rogers
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
Samuel Beckett
I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.
Mike Tyson
I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.
Angelina Jolie
If you mess up your children, nothing else you do really matters.
Jackie Kennedy
To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.
Dave Barry
The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
Orlando Bloom
The way I see it, the earth is going to be here after we're dead and gone. Even if it's a polluted planet, and they messed it up. Where do they go from here - to another planet so they can mess that up too?
Richard Pryor
If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.
Ziggy Marley
Clean up your own mess.
Robert Fulghum
All it takes is one drink to mess with the way you drive - it clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Don't take any chances. It just isn't worth it.
Paris Hilton
I don't think that Dreamworks would have signed me expecting to really mess around with whatever it is I do.
Elliott Smith
Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.
Nicholas Sparks
The only place that the left hasn't placed the blame is on their agenda, so some advice for our friends on that side of the aisle: that's where you've gotta look because that's what got you into this mess.
Sarah Palin
We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.
Friedrich August von Hayek
I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.
Ted Allen
The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess.
Tracey Emin
You don't wanna mess up what you've done. It's like Jordan coming back: You're scared to mess up the legacy.
Ice Cube
Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.
Cher
But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess.
Michael Hutchence
Yeah, I don't mess with chicks younger. They got to be almost thirty.
Mike Epps
Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.
Willa Cather
Let me tell you what the Cain Doctrine would be, as it relates to Israel if I were president. You mess with Israel, you are messing with the United States of America!
Herman Cain
I don't mess around with my subconscious.
Robert Rauschenberg
Around my own friends, I like to mess around.
Robert Duvall
My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.
Loretta Lynn
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Mess Translations
mess in Dutch is moes, brij, pap
mess in Finnish is puuro
mess in Italian is viluppo
mess in Spanish is lio, enredo
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