#merely

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale. ↗

— Elsa Schiaparelli

#contributes #eating #gives #goodwill #great

The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#apparatus #believed #cared #ceremonies #connected

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#force #freedom #heart #interference #intrusion

I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#consider #constitution #evolving #flexible #how

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

— Frederick The Great

#hat #lets #merely #rain

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

The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#alone #capacity #employee #employer #his

For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive. ↗

— Fanny Burney

#acquaintance #alive #comes #confess #finding

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction. ↗

— Jean Dubuffet

#completely #eventual #expect #extinction #goodbye