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Quotes about Nothing


Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

Ben Stein

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

Edward Young

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

Charles Schulz

Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz-something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.

Chungliang Al Huang

Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.

Harold Clurman

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

W. Somerset Maugham

Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears.

Louis Macneice

I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.

Marcus Valerius Martial

There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.

Kin Hubbard

Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.

Miguel De Cervantes

I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal brothers. If we are to nuture our culture, let’s begin with the animals who have been nothing but our beasts of burden for so long.

Riki Rockett

Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.

James H Boren

There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.

Joseph Addison

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Manutius Aldus (Aldo Manuzio)

Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to Dispatch than Method.

Lord Chesterfield

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

Lord Acton

Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.

Richard Nelson Bolles

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Henry Ford

In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

Andre Malraux

The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.

French Proverb

Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.

Kin Hubbard

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

Pierre Auguste Caron de Beaumarchais

Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered; nothing more readily received; nothing more widely dispersed. [Lat., Nihil est autem tam voluere, quam maledictum; nihil facilius emittitur; nihil citius excipitur, latius dissipatur.]

Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

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