An old nought
Will never be ought. [ Proverb ]

Nought venter nought have. [ Heywood ]

Nought may endure but mutability. [ Shelley ]

Playful blushes, that seemed nought
But luminous escapes of thought. [ Moore ]

Have you not heard it said full oft,
A woman's nay doth stand for nought? [ Shakespeare ]

For highest looks have not the highest mind,
Nor haughty words most full of highest thought;
But are like bladders blown up with the wind,
That being pricked evanish into nought. [ Spenser ]

Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself
Till, by broad spreading it disperse to nought. [ William Shakespeare ]

Long while I sought to what I might compare
Those powerful eyes, which light my dark spirit;
Yet found I nought on earth, to which I dare
Resemble the image of their goodly light.
Not to the sun, for they do shine by night;
Nor to the moon, for they are changed never;
Nor to the stars, for they have purer sight;
Nor to the fire, for they consume not ever;
Nor to the lightning, for they still persevere;
Nor to the diamond, for they are more tender;
Nor unto crystal, for nought may they sever;
Nor unto glass, such baseness might offend her;
Then to the Maker's self the likest be;
Whose light doth lighten all that here we see. [ Spenser ]

The fountain of my heart dried up within me, -
With nought that loved me, and with nought to love,
I stood upon the desert earth alone.
And in that deep and utter agony,
Though then, then even most unfit to die
I fell upon my knees and prayed for death. [ Maturin ]

Yes - it was love - if thoughts of tenderness.
Tried in temptation, strengthened by distress,
Unmoved by absence, firm in every clime,
And yet - oh more than all! - untired by time.
Which nor defeated hope, nor baffled wile,
Could render sullen were she near to smile,
Nor rage could fire, nor sickness fret to vent
On her one murmur of his discontent;
Which still would meet with joy, with calmness part.
Lest that his look of grief should reach her heart;
Which nought removed, nor menaced to remove -
If there be love in mortals— this was love! [ Byron ]

All is gentle; nought Stirs rudely; but congenial with the night.
Whatever walks is gliding like a spirit. [ Byron ]

Alas! the breast that inly bleeds has nought to fear from outward blow. [ Byron ]

Time, the prime minister of death! there's nought can bribe his honest will. [ Marvell ]

And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care. [ Spenser ]

Gay mellow silks her mellow charms infold, and nought of Lyce but herself is old. [ Young ]

In this world of change, nought which comes stays, and nought which goes is lost. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

Nought so vile that on the earth doth live, but to the earth some special good doth give. [ William Shakespeare ]

My soul, what's lighter than a feather? Wind. Than wind? The fire. And what than fire? The mind.
What's lighter than the mind? A thought. Than thought? This bubble world. What than this bubble? Nought. [ Quarles ]

Real glory springs from the quiet conquest of ourselves; and without that the conqueror is nought but the first slave. [ Thomson ]