A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.
Lou Holtz

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.
Robert Frost

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
Aristotle

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Aristotle

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Aristotle

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
Aristotle

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
Jack Welch

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
Henry David Thoreau

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?
Henry David Thoreau

This shirt is dry clean only. Which means... it's dirty.
Mitch Hedberg

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Robert H. Schuller

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Oscar Wilde

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Oscar Wilde

Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
John Adams

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
Eleanor Roosevelt