Quotes
Quotes about Nothing
Diogenes the Cynic, when a little before his death he fell into a slumber, and his physician rousing him out of it asked him whether anything ailed him, wisely answered, "Nothing, sir; only one brother anticipates another,--Sleep before Death."
There are two sentences inscribed upon the Delphic oracle, hugely accommodated to the usages of man's life: "Know thyself," and "Nothing too much;" and upon these all other precepts depend.
A physician, after he had felt the pulse of Pausanias, and considered his constitution, saying, "He ails nothing," "It is because, sir," he replied, "I use none of your physic."
If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?
In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught; but in life there are many things to draw us aside.
Dare to look up to God and say, "Make use of me for the future as Thou wilt. I am of the same mind; I am one with Thee. I refuse nothing which seems good to Thee. Lead me whither Thou wilt. Clothe me in whatever dress Thou wilt."
Two rules we should always have ready,--that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.
All that is harmony for thee, O Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for thee is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that thy seasons bring, O Nature. All things come of thee, have their being in thee, and return to thee.
Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess."
He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.
He declared that he knew nothing, except the fact of his ignorance.
Nothing can be produced out of nothing.
Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down."
He left a paper sealed up, wherein were found three articles as his last will: "I owe much; I have nothing; I give the rest to the poor."
Nothing is so dear and precious as time.
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
Why may not a goose say thus: "All the parts of the universe I have an interest in: the earth serves me to walk upon, the sun to light me; the stars have their influence upon me; I have such an advantage by the winds and such by the waters; there is nothing that yon heavenly roof looks upon so favourably as me. I am the darling of Nature! Is it not man that keeps and serves me?"
I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together.
There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret the things, and more books upon books than upon all other subjects; we do nothing but comment upon one another.
They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.
