Quotes
Quotes about Nothing
Nothing, thou elder brother e'en to shade.
There is nothing new under the sun.
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
Defeat may test you; it need not stop you. If at first you don't succeed, try another way. For every obstacle there is a solution. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. The greatest mistake is giving up.
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.
Let nothing pass which will advantage you; Hairy in front, Occasion's bald behind. [Lat., Rem tibi quam nosces aptam dimittere noli; Fronte capillata, post est occasio calva.]
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
I find nothing more depressing than optimism.
I invent nothing. I rediscover.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.
You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.
Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain And perish in our own.
Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.
There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.
All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood. [Fr., Toutes les passions ne sout autre chose que les divers degres de la chaleur et de la froideur du sang.]
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
Act nothing in furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
