Quotes
Quotes about Nothing
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear
To be we know not what, we know not where.
'T is not for nothing that we life pursue;
It pays our hopes with something still that's new.
Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.
Go call a coach, and let a coach be called;
And let the man who calleth be the caller;
And in his calling let him nothing call
But "Coach! Coach! Coach! Oh for a coach, ye gods!"
While man is growing, life is in decrease;
And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style,
Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Note 9.La vray science et le vray étude de l'homme c'est l'homme (The true science and the true study of man is man).--Charron: De la Sagesse, lib. i. chap. 1.
Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.--Plato: Phædrus.
Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
If solid happiness we prize,
Within our breast this jewel lies,
And they are fools who roam.
The world has nothing to bestow;
From our own selves our joys must flow,
And that dear hut, our home.
A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian,
Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched,
And touched nothing that he did not adorn.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing."... There was another fine passage too which he struck out: "When I was a young man, being anxious to distinguish myself, I was perpetually starting new propositions. But I soon gave this over; for I found that generally what was new was false."
A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he knows anything of the matter or not; an Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.
"Our armies swore terribly in Flanders," cried my Uncle Toby, "but nothing to this."
Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.
Rich windows that exclude the light,
And passages that lead to nothing.
Henceforth the majesty of God revere;
Fear Him, and you have nothing else to fear.
They would talk of nothing but high life, and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.
From reveries so airy, from the toil
Of dropping buckets into empty wells,
And growing old in drawing nothing up.
There's nothing like being used to a thing.
Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.
Avoid shame, but do not seek glory,--nothing so expensive as glory.
"Heat, ma'am!" I said; "it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones."
