Means

Famous quotes containing the word means:

“Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, “If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything it has—the inventions, the histories, every scrap of fact. But there is one kind of knowledge—infinitely precious, time- resistant more than monuments, here to be passed between the generations in any way it may be: never to be used. And that is poetry.”
—Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)