Nothing Quotes - page 25

The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing. (Savielly Tartakower)
There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh. View quote
Catullus
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market. View quote
Ezra Pound
And die of nothing but a rage to live. View quote
Alexander Pope
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. View quote
Alexander Pope
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. View quote
Edmund Burke
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. View quote
Edmund Burke
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. View quote
Edmund Burke
Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood. View quote
Wallace Stevens
All is vanity, nothing is fair. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, "I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any." We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once. (Gore Vidal)
Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door, Perched, and sat, and nothing more. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. View quote
Terence
Myth is the nothing that is everything. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows. View quote
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in. View quote
Stephen Hawking
Those who stand for nothing fall for everything. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more. View quote
Kim Wilde
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say. View quote
Raymond Chandler
Every something is an echo of nothing. View quote
John Cage
There's nothing like real love. Nothing. (Shirley Temple)
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. View quote
William Morris
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted. View quote
Garrison Keillor
Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty. View quote
Samuel Johnson
To a poet nothing can be useless. View quote
Samuel Johnson