Merest Quotes

37 quotes by 34 authors

The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. — Douglas Adams
How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the… — Richard Burton
You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody who's looked at Congress can… — P.J. O'Rourke
What has been done is little-scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. And our knowledge… — Agnes Mary Clerke
Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff. — Annie Dillard
In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and clear that one feels as if one's been hit in… — Julia Quinn
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention. — Percy Williams Bridgman
To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it… — Clifford Geertz
Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the… — Celia Thaxter
A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one. — Emily Post
Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness. — Isaac Barrow
The pie should be eaten "while it is yet florescent, white or creamy yellow, with the merest drip of candied juice along the edges, (as… — Henry Ward Beecher
Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic… — Patrick Kavanagh
Then what am I - the body substance which I can see with my eyes and feel with my hands? Or am I this realization,… — Charles Lindbergh
We soon get through with Nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy. The merest child which has rambled into a copsewood dreams of… — Henry David Thoreau
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. — Honore de Balzac
You'll understand, I'm sure that I'm chasing the merest sliver of color. It's my own fault. I want to grasp the intangible. It's terrible how… — Claude Monet
Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny. — Friedrich Schiller
The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act of the whole… — Lysander Spooner

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