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Quotes about Nothing


When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is nothing permanent except change.

Henry Heraclitus

There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is in your expecting evil before it arrives! [Lat., Nil est nec miserius nec stultius quam praetimere. Quae ista dementia est, malum suum antecedere!]

Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

Moderation is a fatal thing. . . . Nothing succeeds like excess.

Oscar Wilde

Moderation is a fatal thing: nothing succeeds like excess.

Oscar Wilde

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

Sir Richard Steele

Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.

Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

James Baldwin

Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good ;consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.

Albert Schweitzer

If you find that somebody is not grateful for all that you have done for him, then do not get disappointed because often you will find that someone else feels under your obligation though you have done nothing for him and thus your good deeds will be compensated, and Allah will reward you for your goodness.

Hazrat Ali

For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.

James Russell Lowell

Give the American people a good cause, and there's nothing they can't lick.

John Wayne

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

Michel de Montaigne

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. •Robert Fripp There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

Robert Fripp

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

Robert Montaigne

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Jacques Attali

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

Elvis Presley

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

I can call nothing by name if that is not his name. I call a cat a cat, and Rollet a rogue. [Fr., Je ne puis rien nommer si ce n'est par son nom; J'appelle un chat un chat, et Rollet un fripon.]

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

Joseph Addison

The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.

Philip James Bailey

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

George Washington Carver

Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.

Loudon Wainwright

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