“To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.”
Igor Stravinsky
“We believe this suit has no merit and is simply a transparent effort to pry money from our company even though we've always provided full disclosure of all material company information to shareholders and the public.”
Nick Iammartino
“Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in”
Mark Twain
“Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats' teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.”
William Shakespeare