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Quotes about Nothing


For nothing human foreign was to him.

James Thomson (1)

For the interesting and inspiring thing about America, gentlemen, is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.

Thomas Woodrow Wilson

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Walter S. Landor

I am a man; nothing human is alien to me.

Friedrich Terence

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Agnes Repplier

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. - Points of View.

Agnes Repplier

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

Clive James

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.

Victor Anonymous

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when a man has only one idea.

Unattributed Author

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed it.

Gustave Flaubert

I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.

Jenny Joseph

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Jeremy Collier

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The hardest work of all is to do nothing.

Jean Proverb

A man's real worth is determined by what he does when he has nothing to do.

Megiddo Message

There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more. [Fr., Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami; Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.]

Jean de la Fontaine

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Anatole Goethe

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Martin Luther King, Jr

There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Sir Francis Bacon

Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face.

James D. Finley

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Salvador Dali

There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.

Sir Thomas Browne

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