Merely Quotes

3319 Merely quotes by 1909 unique authors

The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the… — Walter Lippmann
The key point about a demonstration is that it must be seen. Hence the term "demonstration." If a person demonstrates privately in his own home,… — Woody Allen
It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind. — Marcel Proust
The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present. — Marcel Proust
Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief. — Mark Twain
I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt;… — Thomas Jefferson
Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear. — Oscar Wilde
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand… — Alvin Toffler
You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up. — Bob Hope
Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation… — Arthur Koestler
The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it appears… — James Fallows
Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place. — Calvin Trillin
We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has… — Clifton Fadiman
I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead… — Orson Scott Card
What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them. — Seneca the Younger
Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end. — Annie Dillard
The universe is illusion merely, not one speck of it real, and we are not only its victims, falling always into or smashed by a… — Annie Dillard
The truth is that no horizon is especially interesting by itself, by virtue of its peculiar content, and that any horizon, wide or narrow, brilliant… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer:… — Albert Einstein
Virtue is too often merely local. — Samuel Johnson
The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence. — George Santayana
The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies. — George Santayana

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