The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.

- Annette Funicello

Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea.

- Francis Parker Yockey

People can die of mere imagination.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.

- George Farquhar

All that was once directly lived has become mere representation.

- Guy Debord

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

- Joseph Addison

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

- Karl Marx

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

- Lord Byron

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

- Robertson Davies

We are more than the work we perform. In fact, I'd say that our work is a mere representation of who we are underneath.

- Shawn Amos

I do not give money for just mere hopes.

- Terence

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.

- Thomas Browne

Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti or mere jnana.

- Vinoba Bhave

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.

- Wilhelm Dilthey

Women aren't as mere as they used to be.

- Walt Kelly