Quotes
Quotes about Nothing
For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7].
...the mind is conscious, but conscious of nothing - I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: so the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.
Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing. [Lat., Nil cupientium Nudus castra peti.]
If thou dost slander her and torture me, Never pray more; abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate; Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed; For nothing canst thou to damnation add Greater than that.
Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.
But, O thou tyrant, Do not repent these things, for they are heavier Than all thy woes can stir. Therefore betake thee To nothing but despair.
All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold; That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Nothing is so difficult that diligence cannot master it.
A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.
Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing.
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
