Mere Quotes

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Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without… — Jerome K. Jerome
We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary… — Thomas Jefferson
Let the efforts of us all, prove that he [Martin Luther King] was not a mere dreamer when he spoke of the beauty of genuine… — Nelson Mandela
For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to… — Karl Marx
Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the… — John Keats
Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object:… — George Bernard Shaw
Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also… — Aristotle
Over the past eighteen years I have acted as a scientific consultant to the U.S. Air Force on the subject of unidentified flying objects -… — J. Allen Hynek
At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from… — Armstrong Williams
A time will come, and soon, when, from mere habit, you will echo the scream of every delirious wretch that harbors near you; then you… — Charles Robert Maturin
One of the most obvious results of having a baby around the house is to turn two good people into complete idiots who probably wouldn't… — Georges Courteline
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as… — William Hazlitt
The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul… — Walter Benjamin
Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all. — Albert Einstein
I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made me into a… — Albert Einstein
God has invited us, as mere human beings, to add to the beauty of his plan and creation — Sara Groves
Either the phone is so seriously thin and flimsy that it is bendable with mere physical force, which I cannot believe given the extensive tests… — Uri Geller
I don't have to write jokes. I don't have to write insults. If you ask the man of the hour in the hot seat, my… — Rachael Ray
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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