Mere Quotes

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.

I know that those who esteem these little organised associations to be the churches of God, see nothing but mere meetings of men in every other gathering of God's children.

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?

Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.

A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

I do not give money for just mere hopes.

I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content in ground meat in a burger and can actually name the temperature to which it was actually cooked to the degree if I'm, you know, really on my game.

When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile.

Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.