Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

He was as shy as a newspaper is when referring to its own merits

Benjamin Disraeli

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

May we imbibe all those qualities and sublime merits possessed by gods.

Ben Affleck

I've learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I'm going to do so on the merit of my own instincts.

Jean Giraudoux

Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman.

we should note that there will never be merit raises.

Claude Monet

The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.

Stephen Jay Gould

The great merit of Stephen Gould's account of the disastrous history of phychometrics is that he shifts the argument from a sterile contest between environmentalists and hereditarians and turns it into an argument between those who are impressed with what our biology stops us doing and those who are impressed with what it allows us to do.

Petrarch

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

We have not studied all of them. Many of them may be sound, while there may be others that merit override consideration.

On my team, we prioritize merits over politics.

John Sweeney

People actually get sponsors based on the merits of the Cup, not on the merits of the sailors.

Alexander Pope

The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?

David Platt

God chose to set his love on the Israelites not because of any merit in them but solely because of mercy in him.

David Platt

Salvation has absolutely nothing to do with human merit and absolutely everything to do with divine mercy.

Benjamin Franklin

Great Modesty often hides great Merit.

Baltasar Gracian

The more merit, the less affection.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed.

Chanakya

Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through their devotion.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.

there's no merit to what you're trying to write a story about.

If there's some outcome, some merit in those sorts of things (I would support the summit),

How can you post us No. 1? ... I don't really give too much merit to that because they don't know what they're talking about.

I don't really think there's any merit to that complaint. We're doing this strictly by the book.

Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit

As long as our players focus, I feel that we ought to be competitive come tournament time. In addition, I feel that our record could very well merit us a berth in the Virginia State Independent Schools Playoffs. If so, it would be the first time that we qualified for the VIS.

Herman Melville

Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.

Jean Toomer

We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.

George Will

When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed.

George Bernard Shaw

Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

Acknowledgment -- If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

Jane Porter

The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.

Jean de la Bruyere

When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive.