Mere

Famous quotes containing the word mere:

“Saying “I feel guilty” is a mere form of words. Saying “I feel ashamed” is not.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“People never will recollect that mere learning and mere cleverness are of next to no value in life, while energy and intellectual grip, the things that are inborn and cannot be taught, are everything.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

“In all toil there is profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 14:23.