merely Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about merely.
“In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.”
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.”
- Oliver Joseph Lodge
“Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.”
- Rowland, Helen
“Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.”
- Lord Chesterfield
“With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.”
- Arthur Schopenhauer
“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”
- Shakespeare, William
“I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.”
- Napoleon Hill
“Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.”
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.”
- Salvador Dali