Merely Quotes

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

Europe is merely powerful; India is beautiful.

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

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.

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

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