Merely Quotes

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

My mission was always intended to be slightly outside the public eye, because that makes me appear more interesting than I really am. A lot of people don't realise that merely by staying away, you can create a myth.

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely try to get something from those who have more.

Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?

I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.

The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one.

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

Nothing comes merely by thinking about it.

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.