All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts his acts being seven ages.

Men are not against you they are merely for themselves.

Most men when they think they are thinking are merely rearranging their prejudices.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract it is merely a compact between men.

Doctors are just the same as lawyers the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons it's merely a routine everyday occurrence in Russia and hardly anyone has any sympathy.

Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it that the Union was preserved.

Wear your learning like your watch in a private pocket and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.

Never seem wiser nor more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like your watch in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.

My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.

I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace an observer who is aware of time's chariot aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense as a method for comprehending all observable reality and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one.

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

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions instincts and passions intelligence and reason.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go they merely determine where you start.

With the brush we merely tint while the imagination alone produces colour.

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories the streets the cathedrals of the imagination.

How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything for the answer will be that it is their imagination.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.