Means may refer to:
- Means (surname)
- Definitions
- Mean (average), a term used in mathematics and statistics
- Means (ethics), something of instrumental value in order to achieve an end
- Means (law), an aspect of a crime needed to convince a jury of guilt in a criminal proceeding
- Other uses
- Means, Kentucky, a small town in the United States
- Means (band), a Christian hardcore band from Regina, Saskatchewan
Famous quotes containing the word means:
“We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still carry about with us, ready at any moment to burst into flame, the smoldering and sinister traits of character by means of which they lived through so many massacres, harming others, but themselves unharmed.”
—William James (18421910)
“Chief Justice. Your means are very slender, and your waste is great.
Falstaff. I would it were otherwise. I would my means were greater, and my waist slenderer.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)