(225 quotes found)
“The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.”
C.S. Lewis
“Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.”
Charles de Lint
“Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
William James
“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”
William Shakespeare
“May your joys be as bright as the morning, and your sorrows merely be shadows that fade in the sunlight of love. May you have enough happiness to keep you sweet, enough trials to keep you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to keep y”
Irish Blessings
“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”
“Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.”
Mark Twain
“My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul”
“Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.”
“Merely through the constant need to ward off, one can become weak enough to be unable to defend oneself any longer.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
