Quotes
Quotes about Nothing
I would mould a world of fire and dew
With no one bitter, grave, or over wise,
And nothing marred or old to do you wrong.
That man may last, but never lives,
Who much receives, but nothing gives;
Whom none can love, whom none can thank,--
Creation's blot, creation's blank.
A sound so fine, there's nothing lives
'Twixt it and silence.
They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy.
Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us.
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.
It was not for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.
Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?
In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before.
I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.
Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
Nothing is stronger than custom.
It is better to have a little than nothing.
Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.
We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.
Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Cæsar and his fortunes in your boat.
Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.
As Athenodorus was taking his leave of Cæsar, "Remember," said he, "Cæsar, whenever you are angry, to say or do nothing before you have repeated the four-and-twenty letters to yourself."
