Merely Quotes

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Faith is not a thing which one "loses," we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

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.

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.

Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.

Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.