#mere

The feeble soul merely whines and complains. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#feeble #merely #soul

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#may #merely #more #perfectly #property

Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#like #merely #out #pocket #private

Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later. ↗

— John Carmack

#because #clever #competent #extremely #graphics

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

— Paul Cezanne

#does #link #merely #new #oneself

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#cow #grazing #mere #must #pleasure

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

— Anton Chekhov

#difference #doctors #just #kill #lawyers

I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed. ↗

— Lynne Cheney

#after #became #chairman #discovered #existed

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#away #essential #man #mere #ordinary

The present condition of fame is merely fashion. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#fame #fashion #merely #present