Quotes
Quotes about Nothing
But is there nothing else, That we may do but only walk? Methinks Brothers and sisters lawfully may kiss.
Something made of nothing, tasting very sweet, A most delicious compound, with ingredients complete; But if as on occasion the heart and mind are sour, It has no great significance, it loses half its power.
Tell me who first did kisses suggest? It was a mouth all glowing and blest; It kissed and it thought of nothing beside. The fair month of May was then in its pride, The flowers were all from the earth fast springing, The sun was laughing, the birds were singing.
A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-faking, whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deny'st the least syllable of thy addition.
Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything.
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra),
When admirals extoll'd for standing still, Of doing nothing with a deal of skill.
I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]
Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working.
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Look wise; say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]
Nothing is more silly than silly laughter. [Lat., Nam risu inepto res ineptior nulla est.]
Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing.
It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.
Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a reason, nor a power, nor a coercive force. It is nothing but a general formula, a statistical table.
In cross-examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.
