Quotes
Quotes about Nothing
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
Generally speaking, everyone is more interresting doing nothing than doing anything.
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.
Liberty, as it is concieved by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behaviour.
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.
The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
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.
Life is like an onion. Why is life like an onion? Because you peel away layer after layer and when you come to the end you have nothing.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. -Jonathan Swift.
As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.
A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. -Unknown.
Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.
Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars...God, if you wish for our love,Fling us a handful of stars! - Caliban in the Coal Mines.
The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
Go, call a coach, and let a coach be called; And let the man who calleth be the caller; And in the calling, let him nothing call, But coach! coach! coach! O for a coach, ye gods!
There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. - The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647.
