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He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

Douglas Jerrold

I've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them, nothing.

Sam Ervin

We will fight them in the air, land and sea, and their aggression will achieve nothing but failure.

Unattributed Author

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Henry Havelock Ellis

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

John Stuart Mill

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.

Daniel Webster

Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything.

Benjamin Franklin

Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good.

Martin Luther

The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.

Henry David Proverb

There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.

Wilson Mizner

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Lord Alfred Epicetus

Winning isn't everything, but losing is nothing.

Red Symons

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Walter Lippman

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

Of all complexions the culled sovereignty Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek, Where several worthies make one dignity, Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.

William Shakespeare

What is lighter than the wind? A feather. What is lighter than a feather? Fire. What lighter than a fire? A woman. What lighter than a woman? Nothing. [Lat., Vente quid levius? fulgur. Quid fulgure? flamma Flamma quid? mulier. Quid mulier? nihil.]

Unattributed Author

Oh, the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they are shrewd, And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude; But the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their rudeness, Are as nothing to their goodness when they're good.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Nothing but what astonishes is true.

Edward Young

We nothing know, but what is marvellous; Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.

Edward Young

I am nothing and to nothing tend, On earth I nothing have and nothing claim, Man's noblest works must have one common end, And nothing crown the tablet of his name.

Thomas Moore

Nothing is impossible to industry.

Periander of Corinth

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