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have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

William Morris

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.

F. J. Raymond

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.

F. J. Raymond

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde

Nothing dries sooner than a tear. [Lat., Nihil enim lacryma citius arescit.]

Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.

C S Robinson

When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your TV set and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

Newton Minnow

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

William Penn

If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.

John Milton

Thank you for nothing.

Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)

Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing. 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed.

William Shakespeare

Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense.

George Ade

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. -Jim Bishop.

Jim Bishop

To tolerant everything is too teach nothing.

F. J. Kinsman

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.. -Mark Twain.

Mark Twain

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

Guy Debord

Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.

Douglas Jerrold

There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Samuel Johnson

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Winston Churchill

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Thomas Jefferson

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Winston Churchill

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. -Winston Churchill.

Winston Churchill

There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, and this is no longer equal.

Jacques Delille (Jaques Euripides

It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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