Quotes
Quotes about Nothing
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
A primrose by a river's brim
A yellow primrose was to him,
And it was nothing more.
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.
Minds that have nothing to confer
Find little to perceive.
Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows;
Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean.
But there's nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream.
The bird let loose in Eastern skies,
Returning fondly home,
Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, nor flies
Where idle warblers roam;
But high she shoots through air and light,
Above all low delay,
Where nothing earthly bounds her flight,
Nor shadow dims her way.
This world is all a fleeting show,
For man's illusion given;
The smiles of joy, the tears of woe,
Deceitful shine, deceitful flow,--
There's nothing true but Heaven.
Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage,--a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.
Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.
America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.
I have read their platform, and though I think there are some unsound places in it, I can stand upon it pretty well. But I see nothing in it both new and valuable. "What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable."
There is nothing so powerful as truth,--and often nothing so strange.
'T is pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print;
A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
He who hath bent him o'er the dead
Ere the first day of death is fled,--
The first dark day of nothingness,
The last of danger and distress,
Before decay's effacing fingers
Have swept the lines where beauty lingers.
In virtues nothing earthly could surpass her,
Save thine "incomparable oil," Macassar!
Place me on Sunium's marbled steep,
Where nothing save the waves and I
May hear our mutual murmurs sweep;
There, swan-like, let me sing and die.
Ah, surely nothing dies but something mourns.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever;
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness.
Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
Nothing is so galling to a people, not broken in from the birth, as a paternal or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
The world knows nothing of its greatest men.
Sooth 't were a pleasant life to lead,
With nothing in the world to do
But just to blow a shepherd's reed,
The silent season thro'
And just to drive a flock to feed,--
Sheep--quiet, fond and few!
He is one of those wise philanthropists who in a time of famine would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.
As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate;" and the water, put nought in it malice.
