Mere Quotes

1764 quotes by 1143 authors

The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing… — Joseph Butler
Beauty does not lie in the face. It lies in the harmony between a person and his or her industry. Beauty is expression. When I… — Jean-Francois Millet
Jesus was certainly not a mere enunciator of permanent truths, like the modern liberal preacher; on the contrary He was conscious of standing at the… — John Gresham Machen
It is surely no mere coincidence that the land of the emancipated and enthroned woman is also the land of canned soup, of canned pork… — H. L. Mencken
The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a… — Elwyn Brooks White
It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine. — Mahatma Gandhi
We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any… — Mahatma Gandhi
I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it… — Hermann Hesse
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown. — Petrarch
Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness. — Rabindranath Tagore
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth. — Rabindranath Tagore
The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to… — Henry Ward Beecher
Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science. — Henry David Thoreau
Life is not a thing of knowing only--nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and… — Learned Hand
Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love is our only weapon. Only love can turn mere life into a miracle, and draw precious meaning from suffering and fear. — Nando Parrado
The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere… — Walter Lippmann

Who Wrote These Mere Quotes

1,143 authors contributed a total of 1,764 Mere Quotes, led by these top contributors: