This item is a mere fleabite in the ocean of our expenditure. — Lord Randolph Churchill Copy Share Image
Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Teenagers are like cats - they have important business that doesn't involve mere humans. — Julie Smith Copy Share Image
To write well and speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well. — Bridget of Sweden Copy Share Image
Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
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Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and,… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Hitler admired Stalin, quite properly seeing himself as a mere infant in crime compared to his great exemplar. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Sabbath rest is more than mere abstention from physical work; and, therefore, must include worship and Scripture-reading. — Joseph Hertz Copy Share Image
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Emphasis should be placed more on what the patient does in the present and will do in the future than on a… — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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The sea was not freedom; it was a likeness of freedom, a symbol of freedom...How splendid freedom must be if a mere… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
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Our principles fix what our life stands for, our aims create the light our life is bathed in, and our rationality, both… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
No longer mere earthbeings and planetbeings are we, but bright children of the stars! And together we shall dance in and out… — Sid Meier Copy Share Image
Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Safety lies in tending towards our highest and not in resting content with an inferior potentiality… To rest in or follow after… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain Jesus Christ? His… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A new danger now beset him [Grotius], the danger of becoming simply a venal pleader, a creature who grinds out arguments on… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
With women, the great business of life is love; and they generally make a mistake in it. They consult neither the heart… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral,… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable. — Seneca the Elder Copy Share Image
Ages are mere reminders of the hours logged on this earth and the precious time remaining. — Casper Smart Copy Share Image
When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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