The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost; When character is lost, all is lost!
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give--which is everything.
The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm Charles Dickens in David Copperfield.
Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway.
With love and patience, nothing is impossible. -Daisaku Ikeda.
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says.
Civility costs nothing and buys everything.
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.
Between the penis and the mathematical one . . . there exists nothing. Nothing! It is a vacuum. [Fr., Entre le penis et les mathematiques . . . il n'existe rien. Rien! C'est le vide.]
In my hut this spring, there is nothingâthere is everything!
A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind. [Lat., Medicus nihil aliud est quam animi consolatio.]
But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus With tigery stripes, and a face on it Round as the moon, to stare up. I want to be looking at them when they come Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots. I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces. Now they are nothing, they are not even babies. I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods. They will wonder if I was important.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.