My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.
Cleopatra
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
Irvin S. Cobb
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
Frank Moore Colby
A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.
Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
Mason Cooley
A melody is not merely something you can hum.
Aaron Copland
True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
Victor Cousin
Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.
Frank Crane
At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
e. e. cummings
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Salvador Dali