Quotes
Quotes about Nothing
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition such terms have no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a very particular situation... most of our language about the organization and objective's of government is made up of such polar terms. Justice and injustice are typical. A reformer who wants to abolish injustice and create a world in which nothing but justice prevails is like a man who wants to make everything up. Such a man might feel that if he took the lowest in the world and carried it up to the highest point and kept on doing this, everything would eventually become up. This would certainly move a great many objects and create an enormous amount of activity. It might or might not be useful, according to the standards which we apply. However it would never result in the abolishment of down.
You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat/ But to lie there-that's a disgrace.
The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.
Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.
If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.
Silent, grim, colossal, the Big City has ever stood against its revilers. They call it hard as iron; they say that nothing of pity beats in its bosom; they compare its streets with lonely forests and deserts of lava. But beneath the hard crust of the lobster is found a delectable and luscious food. Perhaps a different simile would have been wiser. Still nobody should take offence. We would call nobody a lobster with good and sufficient claws.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
"Most musical, most melancholy" bird! A melancholy bird! Oh! idle thought! In nature there is nothing melancholy.
There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything.
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.
