I do think that the days of gathering around a television set that functions merely as a television set, to receive a live broadcast of some networked programming, those days are probably numbered.

Without money honor is merely a disease.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

Sex is not merely an entertainment; it is a courtesy and affability.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Money & success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and...

Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.