#mere

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. ↗

— Frederick The Great

#hat #lets #merely #rain

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#eternity #joke #just #long #mere

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does. ↗

— Ernest Holmes

#does #idea #intellect #intellectual #manner

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique. ↗

— James MacGregor Burns

#ethics #leadership #management #mere #politics

The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution. ↗

— John Griffin Carlisle

#detail #discretion #judgment #matter #mere

One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#does #goal #mere #study

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#brother #lined #men #merely #only

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools. ↗

— Lord Salisbury

#merely #politics #really #think #tools

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. ↗

— Walter Scott

#call #himself #history #knowledge #lawyer

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. ↗

— Edward Koch

#bosom #friend #growing #growing old #make