Merely Quotes

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Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom. — Mark Twain
When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical. — Winston Churchill
All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd… — Albert Camus
All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him. — Frank Moore Colby
Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of… — Will Cuppy
In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather… — Mark Twain
It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely the ravings of… — Thomas Jefferson
The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person leaves vivid memories;… — Louis Kronenberger
God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think! — Friedrich Nietzsche
The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man is… — Saint Augustine
The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on… — Elbert Hubbard
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement. — Henry Ward Beecher
I am a believer in angels, though not the picture-book kind with wings and harps. Such angelic accoutrements seem as nonsensical to me as devils… — Richard Paul Evans
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. — Kerry Thornley
From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source… — Carl Jung
If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice you call on… — Carl von Clausewitz
A Coach must never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority. — John Wooden

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