For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
Thomas Jefferson

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
Maya Angelou

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
Albert Einstein

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Tony Robbins

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
Mark Twain

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
Abraham Lincoln

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis

What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?
George Carlin

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.
George Carlin

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
John Lennon

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Helen Keller

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
George Washington

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
Andy Warhol

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
Aristotle

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
Aristotle

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
Aristotle