Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply with greater vision with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

History does not merely touch on language but takes place in it.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Happiness is found in doing not merely possessing.

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.

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

All the ills of mankind all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books all the political blunders all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation we must not merely talk we must act big.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle but an opportunity to change the government of the day.

Husbands never become good they merely become proficient.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes and furnished too.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy but that we should make ourselves happy.