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Quotes about Nothing


My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man that function Is smothered in surmise and nothing is But what is not.

William Shakespeare

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Samuel Beckett

Nothing unites the English like war. Nothing divides them like Picasso.

Hugh Mills

Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken, and yet the cold blue word is spoken: say goodbye now to the Sun, the days of love and leaves are done.

R.p.t. Coffin

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.

Arnold Toynbee

If there is nothing wrong with me, maybe there's something wrong with the universe.

Dr. Beverly Crusher

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.

Robert Orben

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Karl Marx

Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

Bible

Know that it is good to work. Work with love, and think of liking it when you do it. It is easy and interesting. It is a privilege. There is nothing hard about it but your anxious vanity and fear of failure.

Brenda Ueland

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

Anthony Trollope

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by "vanity" only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.

Yousef Karsh

For variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. [Ger., Weil Verschiedenheit des Nichts mehr ergotzt, als Einerleiheit des Etwas.]

Jean Paul Richter

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

Jean Paul Richter

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

Jean Paul Richter

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

Albert Einstein

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

Thornton Seneca

They see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy.

William L. Marcy

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

Douglas Macarthur

The learned pate Ducks to the golden fool. All's obliquy; There's nothing level in our cursed natures But direct villainy.

William Shakespeare

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Martin Luther

A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all voice and nothing else." (Vox et praeterea nibil.)

John Plutarch

The voice is nothing but beaten air. [Lat., Vox nihil aliud quam ictus aer.]

Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. We must find each other.

Mother Theresa

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