Only Quotes

It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?

For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.

As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way.

The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.

The physician is only nature’s assistant.

As great as technology is, it still has it’s limitations, because it’s only a frame of the truth.

The only time I’d played organized basketball was my sophomore year in high school, when I barely made the junior varsity team.

Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.