For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

- Emile M. Cioran

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

- H. L. Mencken

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

- George Gurdjieff

A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.

- Frank Moore Colby

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

- Felix Frankfurter

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.

- Elizabeth Drew

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.

- Elizabeth Drew

A lot of actors are perfectionists, besides merely being egotists.

- Eric Mabius

I'm constantly saying, 'I read a fascinating article in 'The New Yorker'... ' I say it so often that sometimes I think I have nothing interesting to say myself, I merely regurgitate 'The New Yorker.'

- Emma Donoghue

To sit idly, not doing, merely experiencing, comes hard to a primate.

- Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

A melody is not merely something you can hum.

- Aaron Copland

My political giving has merely followed my relationships.

- David Jolly

I have become so used to having people say, 'We loved your movie' instead of 'We read your book' that now I merely say, 'Thanks.'

- Charles R. Jackson

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

- Crystal Eastman

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

- Cleopatra

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.

- Charles de Lint

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

- Bliss Carman

To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.

- Bebe Moore Campbell

Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.

- Bobby Jones

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

- Billy Joel