Merely Quotes

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If we can discover the meaning in the trilling of a frog, perhaps we may understand why it is for us not merely noise but… — Adrian Forsyth
Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness — Bertrand Russell
If you keep at it, one day something which at first appeared impossible will become merely something very difficult indeed. — Unknown Author
Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks — Proverb
A human can be healthy without killing animals for food. Therefore if he eats meat he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties. — Oscar Wilde
I cannot conceive such a Being could make such a Species as the human, merely to live and die on this earth — John Adams
Have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake — Robert Moses
My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured… — William Shakespeare
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmityv — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die — Samuel Johnson
Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation… — Henry Brooks Adams
I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but… — William Faulkner
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. — Unknown Author
No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms — Marcus Aurelius
The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last — Chamfort
I refuse to be labeled immoral merely because I am godless. — Unknown Author
Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18. — Albert Einstein
We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction. — Woodrow Wilson

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