Definition of nothing

"nothing" in the noun sense

1. nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo

a quantity of no importance

"it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"

"reduced to nil all the work we had done"

"we racked up a pathetic goose egg"

"it was all for naught"

"I didn't hear zilch about it"

"nothing" in the adverb sense

1. nothing

in no respect to no degree

"he looks nothing like his father"

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Quotations for nothing

For nothing.

A do-nothing king. [ French ]

Fear nothing but sin. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

I hear, but say nothing. [ Motto ]

Incline to nothing vile. [ Motto ]

Nothing produces nothing.

Nothing is ours but time. [ Proverb ]

Nothing ages like laziness. [ Edward Bulwer Lytton ]

Nothing stake nothing draw. [ Proverb ]

Doing nothing is doing ill. [ Proverb ]

After cheese comes nothing. [ Proverb ]

Nature does nothing in vain.

Tell it well or say nothing. [ Proverb ]

Nothing crave, nothing have. [ Proverb ]

The idle mill earns nothing. [ Proverb ]

Nothing happens for nothing. [ French Proverb ]

The lame tongue gets nothing. [ Proverb ]

Nothing venture nothing have. [ Proverb ]

Nothing lasts but the Church. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Love knows nothing of labour. [ Italian Proverb ]

Without me ye can do nothing. [ Jesus to his disciples ]

But to say nothing of myself. [ Ovid ]

Nothing is fair or good alone. [ Emerson ]

Thorns whiten, yet do nothing. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Nothing is ill that ends well. [ Proverb ]

Old dogs bark not for nothing. [ Proverb ]

Lend, hoping for nothing again. [ Bible ]

Nothing but good understanding. [ Said of friendship ]

To have nothing is not poverty. [ Martial ]

Who has nothing has not enough. [ French Proverb ]

Nothing is stronger than habit. [ Ovid ]

There's nothing true but heaven. [ Moore ]

Nothing secure unless suspected. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Nothing is fine but what is fit. [ Proverb ]

Nothing dries sooner than a tear. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

To a poet nothing can be useless. [ Johnson ]

Nothing rarer than real goodness. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Nothing is easy to the unwilling. [ Proverb ]

Bring nothing base to the temple. [ Motto ]

Nothing is easy to the negligent. [ Proverb ]

Nothing in nature is unbeautiful. [ Tennyson ]

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. [ Proverb ]

Nothing begins, and nothing ends.
That is not paid with moan;
For we are born in others' pain,
And perish in our own. [ Francis Thompson ]

He who has nothing goes securely. [ French Proverb ]

Nothing is so expensive as glory. [ Sydney Smith ]

Covetousness brings nothing home. [ Proverb ]

What comes by kind costs nothing. [ Proverb ]

Minds that have nothing to confer
Find little to perceive. [ Wordsworth ]

Nothing is to be feared but fear. [ Bacon ]

Nothing sharpens sight like envy. [ Proverb ]

Love that asketh love again
Finds the barter naught but pain;
Love that giveth in full store
Aye receives as much, and more.
Love exacting nothing back
Never knoweth any lack;
Love compelling Love to pay,
Sees him bankrupt every day. [ Dinah Muloch Craik ]

Nothing is impossible to industry. [ Periander of Corinth ]

Nothing is good but in its season. [ Proverb ]

He sleeps enough who does nothing. [ French Proverb ]

So good as to be good for nothing. [ Italian Proverb ]

Nothing under the sun is accident. [ Lessing ]

What comes too late is as nothing. [ Proverb ]

Nothing can be so sweet as liberty. [ Sterne ]

It is good beef that costs nothing. [ Proverb ]

Better knot straws than do nothing. [ Gaelic Proverb ]

Nothing anchors itself fast for us. [ Pascal ]

And rash enthusiasm in good society
Were nothing but a moral inebriety. [ Byron ]

Sorrow is good for nothing but sin. [ Proverb ]

When once our grace we have forgot,
Nothing goes right. [ Shakespeare ]

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs. [ Lamartine ]

Nothing with God can be accidental. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Nothing is stronger than necessity. [ Euripides ]

Doing nothing with a deal of skill. [ Cowper ]

Nothing is so strong as gentleness,
Nothing so gentle as real strength. [ St. Francis de Sales ]

Know that nothing can so foolish be
As empty boldness. [ George Herbert ]

As good do nothing as to no purpose. [ Proverb ]

The wishing-gate opens into nothing. [ Spurgeon ]

Nothing succeeds so well as success. [ Prince De Talleyrand ]

Nothing is more useful than silence. [ Menander ]

All or nothing is the motto of Love.

In baseball, you don't know nothing. [ Yogi Berra ]

He doubts nothing who knows nothing. [ Portuguese Proverb ]

Nothing comes amiss to a hungry man. [ Proverb ]

Nothing makes men sharper than want. [ Addison ]

Nothing is achieved without solitude. [ Lacordaire ]

Faith is nothing more than obedience. [ Voltaire ]

Forgive thyself nothing, others much. [ German Proverb ]

An old dog does not bark for nothing. [ Italian Proverb ]

They that do nothing learn to do ill. [ Proverb ]

Nothing that is violent is permanent. [ Proverb ]

Better something than nothing at all. [ German Proverb ]

What! is it nothing, but up and ride? [ Proverb ]

Philosophy is nothing but discretion. [ John Selden ]

By doing nothing, we learn to do ill. [ Proverb ]

He is rich enough that wants nothing. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that converses not, knows nothing. [ Proverb ]

Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin. [ Balzac ]

'Tis nothing when you are used to it. [ Swift ]

Where nothing is, nothing can be had. [ Proverb ]

Without great men nothing can be done. [ Renan ]

Some are very busy and yet do nothing. [ Proverb ]

To do nothing is in every man's power. [ Johnson ]

He loseth nothing that loseth not God. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Wine invents nothing; it only tattles. [ Schiller ]

All and nothing is the motto of Hymen. [ Montlasier ]

Beware of him who has nothing to lose. [ Italian Proverb ]

One crime is everything; two, nothing. [ Mme. Deluzy ]

It is an ill air where we gain nothing. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

One mouth doth nothing without another. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Nothing's impossible to a willing mind. [ Proverb ]

Nothing is more short-lived than pride. [ Ben Jonson ]

Nothing is certain but death and taxes. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

Nothing endures but personal qualities. [ Walt Whitman ]

Life is less than nothing without love. [ Bailey ]

Too much spoils, too little is nothing. [ Proverb ]

He has hard work who has nothing to do. [ Proverb ]

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy. [ William Shakespeare ]

God sends nothing but what can be borne. [ Italian Proverb ]

He that promises too much means nothing. [ Proverb ]

Defend me, common sense, say I,
From reveries so airy, from the toil
Of dropping buckets into empty wells,
And growing old with drawing nothing up. [ William Cowper ]

There is nothing fruitful but sacrifice. [ M. Lamennias ]

Nature hath made nothing so base but can
Read some instruction to the wisest man. [ Aleyn ]

True, I talk of dreams.
Which are the children of an idle brain.
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. [ William Shakespeare ]

Labour bestowed on nothing is fruitless. [ Hitopadesa ]

He'll dance to nothing but his own pipe. [ Proverb ]

Nothing is a misery,
Unless our weakness apprehend it so:
We cannot be more faithful to ourselves,
In anything that's manly, than to make
Ill-fortune as contemptible to us
As it makes us to others. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Gentility is nothing but ancient riches. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It is better to be nothing than a knave. [ M. Antoninus ]

Triumphs for nothing and lamenting toys,
Is jollity for apes and grief for boys. [ William Shakespeare, Cymbeline ]

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times. [ Selden ]

Nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow. [ Bailey ]

They need much whom nothing will content. [ Proverb ]

There's nothing that allays an angry mind
So soon as a sweet beauty. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

You cast your net but nothing was caught. [ Proverb ]

To a valiant heart nothing is impossible. [ French Proverb ]

He that nothing questions learns nothing. [ Proverb ]

Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule. [ Shaftesbury ]

Nothing is good or bad but by comparison. [ Proverb ]

Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas. [ Proverb ]

Nothing can work me damage except myself. [ St. Bernard ]

Nothing is denied to well-directed labor. [ Sir Joshua Reynolds ]

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear
To be we know not what, we know not where. [ Dryden ]

Nothing now is left but a majestic memory. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

If you say nothing, nobody will repeat it. [ Proverb ]

Nothing costs so much as what is given us. [ Proverb ]

Overdoing is nothing doing to the purpose. [ Proverb ]

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. [ George Eliot ]

Nothing is well said or done in a passion. [ Proverb ]

When you have nothing to say, say nothing. [ Colton ]

That which proves too much proves nothing. [ Proverb ]

All foreign wisdom doth amount to this,
To take all that is given, whether wealth,
Or love, or language; nothing comes amiss;
A good digestion turneth all to health. [ Herbert ]

Nothing is more eloquent than ready money. [ French Proverb ]

Nothing so endures as a truly spoken word. [ Carlyle ]

Greatness is nothing unless it be lasting. [ Napoleon ]

Nothing but ourselves can finally beat us. [ Carlyle ]

Too much of one thing is good for nothing. [ Proverb ]

There is nothing costs less than civility. [ Cervantes ]

While man is growing, life is in decrease;
And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun. [ Young ]

Nothing can be preserved but what is good. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Nothing dries sooner than a woman's tears. [ Proverb ]

Nothing is more silly than silly laughter. [ Cat ]

There's nothing in the world like etiquette
In kingly chambers, or imperial halls,
As also at the race and county balls. [ Byron ]

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal Now does always last. [ Abraham Cowley ]

There is nothing so imperishable as a book. [ James Hain Friswell ]

There is nothing certain but the uncertain. [ French ]

The dead, and only they, should do nothing. [ Proverb ]

Distrust and darkness of a future state
Make poor mankind so fearful of their fate,
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear
To be we know not what, we know not where. [ John Dryden ]

One can live on little, but not on nothing. [ Proverb ]

Too much is always bad; old proverbs call
Even too much honey nothing else than gall. [ Anon ]

Nothing presses so heavy on us as a secret. [ La Fontaine ]

He that has nothing is frighted at nothing. [ Proverb ]

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing. [ Proverb ]

Pretension is nothing; power is everything. [ Whipple ]

In form so delicate, so soft his skin.
So fair in feature, and so smooth his chin.
Quite to unman him nothing wants but this;
Put him in coats, and he's a very miss. [ Horace ]

Great trees are good for nothing but shade. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Genius is nothing but labour and diligence. [ Hogarth ]

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true. [ John Ruskin ]

Let nothing come between you and the light. [ Thoreau ]

Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal. [ William Shakespeare, The Taming Of The Shrew ]

Things which are above us are nothing to us. [ Proverb ]

If you win at that you will lose at nothing. [ Proverb ]

In old age nothing any longer astonishes us. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Who knows nothing base, fears nothing known. [ Owen Meredith ]

Nothing to build, and all things to destroy. [ Dryden ]

Fate made me what I am, may make me nothing;
But either that or nothing must I be;
I will not live degraded. [ Byron ]

Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold
The arch enchanter's wand! itself a nothing!
But taking sorcery from the master hand.
To paralyze the Caesars, and to strike
The loud earth breathless! [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

The world knows nothing of its greatest men. [ Henry Taylor ]

Man is his own star, and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
Commands all light, all influence, all fate;
Nothing to him falls early or too late. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Attempt the end and never stand to doubt;
Nothing so hard but search will find it out. [ Herrick ]

You love a nothing when you love an ingrate. [ Plautus ]

There is nothing more daring than Ignorance. [ Menander ]

Nothing to be got without pains but poverty. [ Proverb ]

Reason the hoary dotard's dull directress,
That loses all, because she hazards nothing;
Reason! the timorous pilot, that, to shun
The rocks of life, forever flies the port. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything. [ M. Wortley Montagu ]

Good words cost nothing, but are worth much. [ Proverb ]

The year doth nothing else but open and shut. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

There is nothing in love but what we imagine. [ Sainte-Beuve ]

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. [ Socrates ]

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. [ Seneca ]

As good play for nothing as work for nothing. [ Proverb ]

Nothing is easier than to deceive one's self. [ Proverb ]

Nothing is to be presumed on or despaired of. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He wants nothing now but the itch to scratch. [ Proverb ]

Ah! surely nothing dies but something mourns. [ Byron ]

Your main fault is, you are good for nothing. [ Proverb ]

The healing of the world
Is in its nameless saints. Each separate star
Seems nothing; but a myriad scattered stars
Break up the night, and make it beautiful. [ Bayard Taylor ]

Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity. [ Cicero ]

When the soul is embittered nothing is sweet. [ Proverb ]

There is nothing to which man is not related. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Nothing so contemptible as habitual contempt. [ E. L. Magoon ]

Nothing circulates more swiftly than scandal. [ Livy ]

There is nothing new except what is forgotten. [ Mademoiselle Bertin ]

He has nothing to eat, and yet invites guests. [ Proverb ]

Nothing is too late
Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Soft words, with nothing in them, make a song. [ Waller ]

Wedlock joins nothing, if it joins not hearts. [ Sheridan Knowles ]

Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more! It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]

A pensive soul feeds upon nothing but bitters. [ Proverb ]

It signifies nothing to play well if you lose. [ Proverb ]

He that grasps at too much holds nothing fast. [ Proverb ]

The soul shut up in her dark room,
Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing;
But, like a mole in earth, busy and blind,
Works all her folly up, and casts it outward
To the world's open view. [ John Dryden ]

Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity.
The majority have established this. [ Pascal ]

There is nothing perfectly secure but poverty. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

The happiest life consists in knowing nothing. [ Soph ]

The hard gives more than he that hath nothing. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek. [ William Shakespeare ]

Good that comes too late is as good as nothing. [ Proverb ]

He loses nothing that keeps God for his friend. [ Proverb ]

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. [ Wendell Phillips ]

Take not His name, who made thy mouth, in vain;
It gets thee nothing, and hath no excuse. [ George Herbert ]

There is nothing good or evil save in the will. [ Epictetus ]

Nature counts nothing that she meets with base,
But lives and loves in every place. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

The things that are below us are nothing to us. [ Proverb ]

He who tries to prove too much, proves nothing. [ Proverb ]

Windy attorneys to their client woes,
Airy succeeders of intestate joys,
Poor breathing orators of miseries!
Let them have scope: though what they do impart
Help nothing else, yet do they ease the heart. [ William Shakespeare ]

You begin well in nothing, except you end well. [ Proverb ]

There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:
If the ill spirit have so fair a house,
Good things will strive to dwell with it. [ William Shakespeare ]

Craft counting all things, brings nothing home. [ Proverb ]

Nothing that concerns man is indifferent to me. [ Motto ]

A miser does nothing right except when he dies. [ Proverb ]

Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste. [ Goethe ]

It is an ill air where nothing is to be gained. [ Proverb ]

Faith is nothing but spiritualized imagination. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Nothing is more terrible than active ignorance. [ Goethe ]

Nothing is so hard but search will find it out. [ Robert Herrick ]

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing. [ Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakefield ]

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. [ Voltaire ]

A little of every thing is nothing in the main. [ Proverb ]

Better say nothing, than nothing to the purpose. [ Proverb ]

There is nothing I know of so sublime as a fact. [ George Canning ]

You sift night and day and get nothing but bran. [ Proverb ]

Variety is nothing else but a continued novelty. [ South ]

Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams.
Unnatural and full of contradictions;
Yet others of our most romantic schemes
Are something more than fictions. [ Hood ]

One pirate gets nothing of another but his cask. [ Proverb ]

The noisy drum hath nothing in it, but mere air. [ Proverb ]

Nothing is so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. [ Samuel Fletcher ]

Few people do business well who do nothing else. [ Chesterfield ]

There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit. [ Rivarol ]

Neck or nothing, for the king loves no cripples. [ Proverb ]

There is nothing can equal the tender hours
When life is first in bloom,
When the heart like a bee, in a wild of flowers,
Finds everywhere perfume;
When the present is all and it questions not
If those flowers shall pass away,
But pleased with its own delightful lot,
Dreams never of decay. [ Bohn ]

The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain. [ Goethe ]

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print;
A book's a book, although there's nothing in it. [ Byron ]

This world is nothing except it tend to another. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule. [ Quintus Curtius Rufus ]

The sun can be seen by nothing but its own light. [ Proverb ]

True comeliness, which nothing can impair,
Dwells in the mind; all else is vanity and glare. [ Thomson ]

Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more. [ Bailey ]

Nothing but what is ominous to the superstitious. [ Proverb ]

There is nothing so secret but it comes to light. [ Proverb ]

My name is Twyford; I know nothing of the matter. [ Proverb ]

Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing. [ Fuller ]

Nothing can come out of a sack that is not in it. [ Italian Proverb ]

This is faith: it is nothing more than obedience. [ Voltaire ]

And glory long has made the sages smile;
It is something, nothing, words, illusion, wind -
Depending more upon the historian's style
Than on the name a person leaves behind. [ Byron ]

How happy is he that owes nothing but to himself! [ Proverb ]

He that has nothing to spare must not keep a dog. [ Proverb ]

A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself. [ Montaigne ]

He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more. [ Boiste ]

There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate. [ Ward Beecher ]

Nothing at times is more expressive than silence. [ George Eliot ]

Treason has done his worst; nor steel, nor poison,
Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing
Can touch him further. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a rogue. [ French Proverb ]

Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement. [ Amiel ]

Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently. [ Publius Syrus ]

There is nothing original; all is reflected light. [ Balzac ]

There is nothing insignificant, nothing! (Trifles) [ Coleridge ]

Things all are big with jest; nothing that's plain
But may be witty, if thou hast the vein ...
Many affecting wit beyond their power,
Have got to be a dear fool for an hour. [ George Herbert ]

Whatever good is said of us, we learn nothing new. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

To do nothing by halves is the way of noble minds. [ Wieland ]

They only are wise who know that they know nothing. [ Carlyle ]

There is nothing strictly immortal but immortality. [ Sir T. Browne ]

Knaves imagine nothing can be done without knavery. [ Proverb ]

Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it. [ William Shakespeare ]

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

Nothing is impossible to perseverance and exertion. [ Mrs. Opie ]

I am a man, and I reckon nothing human alien to me. [ Ter ]

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Still all great souls still make their own content;
We to ourselves may all our wishes grant;
For, nothing coveting, we nothing want. [ Dryden ]

We expect everything, and are prepared for nothing. [ Madame Swetchine ]

In days of yore nothing was holy but the beautiful. [ Schiller ]

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety. [ Bacon ]

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know. [ Montaigne ]

There is nothing to be found only once in the world. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience. [ Buffon ]

Nothing more thankful than pride when complied with. [ Proverb ]

Nothing is more easily blotted out than a good turn. [ Proverb ]

Men do nothing excellent but by imitation of nature. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

He that brings up his son to nothing, breeds a thief. [ Proverb ]

The child says nothing but what it heard by the sire. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing. [ Crashaw ]

They agree like bells; they want nothing but hanging. [ Proverb ]

He that is not sensible of his loss has lost nothing. [ Proverb ]

Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent. [ B. R. Haydon ]

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them. [ Proverb ]

There is nothing more friendly than a friend in need. [ Plautus ]

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls;
Who steals my purse steals trash;
'Tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name,
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed. [ William Shakespeare ]

Trees and fields tell me nothing; men are my teachers. [ Plato ]

It is more painful to do nothing than to do something. [ Proverb ]

Fortune can take from us nothing but what she gave us. [ Proverb ]

In morals, as in art, saying is nothing, doing is all. [ Renan ]

Begin nothing without considering what the end may be. [ Lady M. Montague ]

Nothing is more ordinary than for vice to correct sin. [ Proverb ]

Nothing has a better effect upon children than praise. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Like lambs, you do nothing but suck and wag your tail. [ Proverb ]

Sleeping foxes have nothing tailing into their mouths. [ Proverb ]

Our common conversation is but a babble about nothing. [ Proverb ]

Give not St. Peter so much, to leave St. Paul nothing. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Nothing can ferment itself to clearness in a colander. [ Carlyle ]

Send a wise man on an errand and say nothing unto him. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Wine that costs nothing is digested before it be drunk. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

There is nothing without us that is not also within us. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them. [ La Fontaine ]

Nothing but a handful of dust will fill the eye of man. [ Arab. Proverb ]

There is nothing directly moral in our nature but love. [ A. Comte ]

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven,
And, as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name. [ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream ]

There is nothing good or ill, but thinking makes it so. [ Montaignes ]

An author can have nothing truly his own but his style. [ Disraeli ]

Nothing so much contents us as that which confounds us. [ Goldsmith ]

He gave him a thing of nothing to hang upon his sleeve. [ Proverb ]

For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions,
Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions. [ Lowell ]

Without earnestness there is nothing to be done in life. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Wherever I look there is nothing but the image of death. [ Ovid ]

Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. [ Emerson ]

A weak man is often so good that he is good for nothing. [ E. P. Day ]

There is nothing so bad as not to be good for something. [ Proverb ]

The best of the sport is to do the deed and say nothing. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Nothing is wanting to his glory; he was wanting to ours. [ Inscription on the bust of Molière, which was placed in the Academy in 1773 ]

I have lost my life, alas! in laboriously doing nothing. [ Grotius ]

None are less eager to learn than they who know nothing. [ Suard ]

A colt is nothing worth if it does not break its halter. [ French Proverb ]

I was once a poet and a historian, and now I am nothing. [ Boudier, for his epitaph ]

One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action. [ Goethe ]

There is nothing at all in life except what we put there. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

Grant but memory to us, and we can lose nothing by death. [ Whittier ]

Nothing dies so hard and rallies so often as intolerance. [ Beecher ]

Nothing maintains its bloom forever; age succeeds to age. [ Cicero ]

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

A good edge is good for nothing if it has nothing to cut. [ Proverb ]

We find nothing good in life but what makes us forget it. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Men are very generous with that which costs them nothing. [ Proverb ]

It is nothing to begin, unless you proceed, and end well. [ Proverb ]

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud. [ Addison ]

He that deserves nothing should be content with anything. [ Proverb ]

Out of breath for nothing, making much ado about nothing. [ Phaed ]

No greater promisers than those who have nothing to give. [ Proverb ]

Those see nothing but faults, that seek for nothing else. [ Proverb ]

He draws nothing well who thirsts not to draw everything. [ John Ruskin ]

I will never stoop so low to take up just nothing at all. [ Proverb ]

I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long. [ Madame de Sevigne ]

Moderation is a fatal thing; nothing succeeds like excess. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Science has but one fashion - to lose nothing once gained. [ Stedman ]

Science is nothing but trained and organised common sense. [ Huxley ]

The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm. [ George Sand ]

Man knows nothing but what he has learned from experience. [ Wieland ]

To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous. [ Goethe ]

Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness. [ Victor Hugo ]

Happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love. [ Amiel ]

Manners require time, as nothing is more vulgar than haste. [ Emerson ]

The child saith nothing but what he heard at the fire-side. [ Proverb ]

Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. [ Swift ]

God save me from a poor fiddler who knows nothing of music. [ F. Geminiani ]

Nothing can overtake an untruth if it has a minute's start. [ J. M. Barrie ]

Nothing preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Nothing deters a good man from what honour requires of him. [ Seneca ]

One of his hands is unwilling to wash the other for nothing. [ Proverb ]

Good men want the laws for nothing but to defend themselves. [ Proverb ]

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm. [ Schumann ]

A covetous man does nothing that he should do, till he dies. [ Proverb ]

One forgives everything to him who forgives himself nothing. [ Chinese Proverb ]

Nothing is beautiful but the true; the true alone is lovely. [ Boileau ]

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning. [ Whipple ]

There's nothing so bad as not to be of service for something. [ German Proverb ]

There is nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream. [ Moore ]

No man should live in the world that has nothing to do in it. [ Proverb ]

Death hath nothing terrible in it but what life hath made so. [ Proverb ]

There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe. [ Vauvenargues ]

Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire. [ Mme. Dudevant ]

Men and cucumbers are worth nothing as soon as they are ripe. [ Jean Paul ]

There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [ Goethe ]

Authors are martyrs, witnesses to the truth, or else nothing. [ Carlyle ]

If you put nothing into your purse, you can take nothing out. [ Proverb ]

People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]

Man seems to be deficient in nothing so much as he is in time. [ Zeno ]

The fool thinks nothing well done except what he does himself.

The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs. [ Mme. du Deffand ]

Genius is nothing else than a sovereign capacity for patience. [ Buffon ]

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and nothing so strange. [ Danish Webster ]

Nothing is strong that may not be endangered even by the weak. [ Quintus Curtius Rufus ]

Nothing recommends a man more to the female mind than courage. [ Spectator ]

Nothing is so strong but may be endangered even by the weakest. [ Rufus ]

Maids want nothing but husbands, and then they want everything. [ Proverb ]

Nothing is properly one's duty but what is also one's interest. [ Bishop Wilkins ]

The generous man pays for nothing so much as what is given him. [ Proverb ]

He speaks one word nonsense, and two that have nothing in them. [ Proverb ]

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime. [ Horace ]

He who pretends to know everything proves that he knows nothing. [ Le Bailly ]

If I had a dog so good for nothing as you are, I would hang him. [ Proverb ]

Many there be, that buy nothing with their money but repentance. [ Proverb ]

Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived. [ Seume ]

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die. [ Cicero ]

Nothing is more haughty than a common-place man raised to power. [ French Proverb ]

Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason. [ Stanislaus ]

Anxiety is good for nothing, if we cannot turn it into a defense. [ George Eliot ]

He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouths at us, is courteous. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Wise men learn something of fools, but fools nothing of wise men. [ Proverb ]

Nothing can be hostile to religion which is agreeable to justice. [ Gladstone ]

All women are good; viz. good for something, or good for nothing. [ Proverb ]

He is a king who fears nothing; he is a king who desires nothing. [ Seneca ]

Like the tailor, that sewed for nothing and found thread himself. [ Proverb ]

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count. [ Emerson ]

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Nothing ages women so rapidly as having married the general rule. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Faith is the root of works. A root that produceth nothing is dead. [ Thomas Wilson ]

Trust that man in nothing, who has not a conscience in everything. [ Laurence Sterne ]

Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes. [ Schiller ]

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power. [ Burke ]

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. [ Voltaire ]

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory: nothing so expensive as glory. [ Sydney Smith ]

Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

He that believes all, misseth; he that believeth nothing, hits not. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it. [ Hazlitt ]

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. [ Thomas Fuller ]

He is a slave of the greatest slave who serves nothing but himself. [ Proverb ]

Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion. [ Bovee ]

There is nothing so hard but diligence and labor makes it seem easy. [ Virgil ]

He who thinks himself good for everything is often good for nothing. [ Picard ]

Is then your knowledge to pass for nothing unless others know of it?

Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

A man gains nothing by being vain-glorious, but contempt and hatred. [ Proverb ]

He must be a thorough fool who can learn nothing from his own folly. [ Hare ]

None hastens to that market where nothing is to be bought but blows. [ Proverb ]

Since you know all, and I nothing, tell me what I dreamed last night. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit. [ C. D. Warner ]

An ugly woman in a rich habit set out with jewels nothing can become. [ Dryden ]

Conceited half-witted fellows think nothing can be done without them. [ Proverb ]

When we do ill the devil tempts us, when we do nothing, we tempt him. [ Proverb ]

Without faith a man can do nothing. But faith can stifle all science. [ Amiel ]

Those are generally good at flattering who are good for nothing else. [ South ]

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power of dominion. [ Addison ]

The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great. [ Addison ]

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. [ Wendell Phillips ]

That is the best part of each writer which has nothing private in it. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Society has gone to the dogs: a lot of nobodies talking about nothing. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing. [ Feltham ]

He does nothing who endeavours to do more than is allowed to humanity. [ Johnson ]

There is nothing certain in man's life but this, that he must lose it. [ Owen Meredith ]

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order. [ Jeremy Collier ]

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. [ Swift ]

Reason can discover things only near, - sees nothing that's above her. [ Quarles ]

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return. [ Lowell ]

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a former state of existence. [ Hindu saying ]

She that loses her modesty and honesty, hath nothing else worth losing. [ Proverb ]

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth. [ Daniel Webster ]

Advice is like kissing: it costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Nothing at bottom is interesting to the majority of men but themselves. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

True eloquence consists in saying all that is proper, and nothing more. [ La Roche ]

Here is the egotist's code: everything for himself, nothing for others. [ Sanial-Dubay ]

Here, where the city now stands, was at that time nothing but its site. [ Ovid ]

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but justice delivers from death. [ Bible ]

Nothing seems important to me but so far as it is connected with morals. [ Cecil ]

Whoever blushes is already guilty: true innocence is ashamed of nothing. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

The net of heaven is very wide in its meshes, and yet it misses nothing. [ Lao-Tze ]

Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vices in disguise! [ Lavater ]

Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal. [ Moliere ]

Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous than virtuous love. [ Henry Home ]

Nothing's more playful than a young cat, nor more grave than the old one. [ Proverb ]

No power of good can be obtained by doing nothing and by knowing nothing. [ Johnson ]

There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner. [ Dickens ]

Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

France needs nothing so much to promote her regeneration as good mothers. [ Napoleon I ]

Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us. [ Dr. Johnson ]

There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty. [ Addison ]

To endeavor to forget any one is the certain way to think of nothing else. [ La Bruyere ]

Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived. [ Erasmus ]

A man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

Trust him with little who, without proofs, trusts you with everything, or,
When he has proved you, with nothing. [ Lavater ]

The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody. [ Schiller ]

He that is his own counsellor knows nothing sure but what he hath laid out. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Nothing not a reality ever yet got men to pay bed and board to it for long. [ Carlyle ]

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. [ William Shakespeare ]

Man is nothing but contradiction; the less he knows it the more dupe he is. [ Amiel ]

In a tête-à-tête we are never more interrupted than when we say nothing. [ Mlle. de Lespinasse ]

War should be so undertaken that nothing but peace may seem to be aimed at. [ Cicero ]

Our age knows nothing but reactions, and leaps from one extreme to another. [ Niebuhr ]

I know no such thing as genius - genius is nothing but labor and diligence. [ Hogarth ]

Nothing so much prevents one from being natural as the desire to appear so. [ La Roche ]

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. [ Emerson ]

Good women grudge each other nothing, save only clothes, husbands, and flax. [ Jean Paul ]

Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument. [ Joubert ]

A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it. [ Fielding ]

The fact is, nothing comes, - at least, nothing good. All has to be fetched. [ Charles Buxton ]

From a choleric man withdraw a little; from him that says nothing, for ever. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that ties up another man's dog, shall have nothing left him but the line. [ Proverb ]

Verily, there is nothing so true that the damps of error hath not warp'd it. [ Tupper ]

It is nothing for you to know a thing unless another knows that you know it. [ Pers ]

You read of but one wise man; and all that he knew was that he knew nothing. [ Congreve ]

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

To him nothing is possible, who is always dreaming of his past possibilities. [ T. Carlyle ]

Genius is nothing more than the effort of the idea to assume a definite form. [ Fichte ]

Nothing is more significant of men's character than what they find laughable. [ Goethe ]

Strong thoughts are iron nails driven in the mind, that nothing can draw out. [ Diderot ]

There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair. [ Martial ]

There is nothing more precious than time, and nothing more prodigally wasted. [ Proverb ]

Surely half the world must be blind; they can see nothing unless it glitters. [ Hare ]

The head, however strong it may be, can accomplish nothing against the heart. [ Mlle. de Scuderi ]

Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously. [ Haliburton ]

It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Where there is nothing to be had, even the king of France must lose his right. [ Proverb ]

Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason. [ Sir John Powell ]

Today, we are all adrift, having nothing more either to venerate or to believe. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]

There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate. [ Jane Porter ]

Women give themselves to God when the devil wants nothing more to do with them. [ Sophie Arnould ]

Let a broken man cling to his work. If it saves nothing else, it will save him. [ Beecher ]

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows and of lending existence to nothing. [ Burke ]

Defeat is nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better. [ Wendell Phillips ]

In the great inconstancy and crowd of events nothing is certain except the past. [ Seneca ]

Religion is nothing if it is not everything; if existence is not filled with it. [ Mme. de Staël ]

Nothing is so often irrevocably neglected as an opportunity of daily occurrence. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

Laugh at all twaddle about fate. A man's fate is what he makes it, nothing else. [ Anon ]

If they be principles evident of themselves, they need nothing to evidence them. [ Tillotson ]

Nothing tends so much to the corruption of science' as to suffer it to stagnate. [ Burke ]

I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature. [ Emerson ]

When we say there is nothing new under the sun, we do not count forgotten things. [ E. Thierry ]

The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing. [ Horace ]

Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more the heart of man. [ Plutarch ]

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Nothing more dangerous than an imprudent friend; a prudent enemy would be better.

Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Nothing in nature, much less conscious being, was ever created solely for itself. [ Young ]

There is nothing so strong or safe, in any emergency of life, as the simple truth. [ Charles Dickens ]

There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal. [ Addison ]

Let nothing foul to either eye or ear reach those doors within which dwells a boy. [ Juvenal ]

Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing? [ Chapin ]

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument. [ South ]

Control the heart's bitterness. Nothing good comes of returning hatred for hatred. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed. [ Socrates ]

Earth hath nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety. [ Luther ]

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. [ Hare ]

Who takes an eel by the tail, or a woman at her word, soon finds he holds nothing. [ Proverb ]

What does a man think of when he thinks of nothing? Answer: A great man's promise. [ Proverb ]

There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen. [ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ]

Hope is the thing most universally enjoyed; for they have it who have nothing else. [ Epictetus ]

With us law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. [ Wendell Phillips ]

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable. [ Menander ]

In argument similes are like songs in love; they much describe; they nothing prove. [ Prior ]

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly. [ Horace ]

Glory long has made the sages smile; 'tis something, nothing, words, illusion, wind. [ Byron ]

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures. [ Cicero ]

The finite is annihilated in the presence of infinity, and becomes a simple nothing. [ Pascal ]

They that do nothing are in the readiest way to do that which is worse than nothing. [ Johann Zimmerman ]

There is nothing more nearly permanent in human life than a well established custom. [ Joseph Anderson ]

May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality. [ H. W. Beecher ]

Be not afraid of enthusiasm; you need it; you can do nothing effectually without it. [ Guizot ]

Women prefer us to say a little evil of them, rather than say nothing of them at all. [ A. Ricard ]

The misfortune of those who have loved is that they can find nothing to replace love. [ Duclos ]

How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water! [ J. Petit-Senn ]

To speak, but say nothing, is for three people out of four to express all they think. [ O. Commettant ]

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. [ Coke ]

I go at what I am about as if there was nothing else in the world for the time being. [ Charles Kingsley ]

I have generally found that the man who is good at an excuse is good for nothing else. [ Franklin ]

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; in adversity, nothing is so difficult. [ Epictetus ]

We do nothing, but in the presence of two great witnesses; God, and our own conscience. [ Proverb ]

We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important. [ Auerbach ]

If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure senses but the soul. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow. [ Bible ]

There is nothing wherein their womanliness is more honestly garnished than with silence. [ Nicholas Udall ]

Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good and partaking of God's holiness. [ Matthew Henry ]

An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Nothing can check his watchful daring. For him the summer has no heat, the winter no ice. [ Boileau of Louis XIV ]

Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders. [ Demosthenes ]

In general, those who have nothing to say contrive to spend the longest time in doing it. [ Lowell ]

Nothing can be so injurious to progress as to be altogether blamed or altogether praised. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it; try what it is to speak with God behind you. [ Ward Beecher ]

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie; A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. [ Herbert ]

Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance. [ Addison ]

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing. [ Voltaire ]

To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind. [ Seneca ]

Take heed of mad folks in a narrow place, credit decayed, and people that have of nothing. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Wit is a zero added to our moral qualities; but which, standing alone, represents nothing. [ C. Jordan ]

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. [ Swift ]

Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good. [ Colton ]

Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no material can produce no combinations. [ Sir J. Reynolds ]

I am always ill at ease when tumults arise among the mob - people who have nothing to lose. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Good-will is everything in morals, but nothing in art; in art, capability alone is anything. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much. [ Horace Mann ]

Nothing really pleasant or unpleasant subsists by nature, but all things become so by habit. [ Epictetus ]

Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Nothing is more difficult than to choose a good husband - unless it be to choose a good wife. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

In my domain there have been learned men, but outside their breviary they could read nothing. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Between us and hell or heaven there is nothing but life, which of all things is the frailest. [ Pascal ]

The physician owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little money. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. [ Alexander Smith ]

Scholars are frequently to be met with who are ignorant of nothing saving their own ignorance. [ Zimmermann ]

Belief in compensation, or, that nothing is got for nothing, characterizes all valuable minds. [ Emerson ]

Women have become so highly educated that nothing should surprise them except happy marriages. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation. [ Cicero ]

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable. [ La Fontaine ]

There is nothing in words and styles but suitableness that makes them acceptable and effective. [ Glanvill ]

Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God and others. That which is done for self dies. [ Aughey ]

Nobody knows who may be listening; say nothing which you would not wish put in the daily paper. [ Spurgeon ]

Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [ Horace ]

Nothing has ever remained of any revolution, but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses. [ Ledru-Rollin ]

There are those who have nothing chaste but their ears, and nothing virtuous but their tongues. [ De Finod ]

The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Nothing proves better the necessity of an indissoluble marriage than the instability of passion. [ Balzac ]

Nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; nor nobly, which is done in pride. [ Ruskin ]

The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue. [ Swift ]

Nothing can atone for the want of modesty, without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. [ Steele ]

Though cast off, I have not fallen so low as to be beneath thee, than which nothing can be lower. [ Ovid ]

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceives us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years. [ Ovid ]

Nothing is more estimable then politeness, and nothing more ridiculous or tiresome than ceremony. [ French ]

There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell but the mere pleasure of God. [ Jonathan Edwards ]

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished; but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred. [ Charles Buxton ]

Nothing so much convinces me of the boundlessness of the human mind as its operations in dreaming. [ W. B. Clulow ]

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. [ George Eliot ]

Give freely to him that deserveth well, and asketh nothing: and that is a way of giving to thyself. [ Fuller ]

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and, far from commanding it, we are forced to obey it. [ Rousseau ]

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing. [ Dr. Johnson ]

True philosophy raises us above grandeur, but nothing can raise us above the ennui which it causes. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. [ Bovee ]

Nothing so lifts a man from all his mean imprisonments, were it but for moments, as true admiration. [ Carlyle ]

Nothing so effectively baffles the schemes of evil men so much as the calm composure of great souls. [ Mirabeau ]

Having nothing to do with elections (Abstain from beans, the ballot at Athens having been by beans).

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Nothing so effectively disconcerts the schemes of sinister people as the tranquillity of great souls. [ Mirabeau ]

Noble art is nothing less than the expression of a great soul; and great souls are not common things. [ John Ruskin ]

I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is my own. [ Montaigne ]

Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived, and apt to have ague fits. [ Erasmus ]

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. [ Seneca ]

Nothing is annihilated, no, nothing; matter, like an ever-flowing stream, still rolls on undiminished. [ Boucher ]

Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach. [ Johnson ]

There is nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a great one. [ Bruyere ]

There is nothing in the universe I fear but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it. [ Mary Lyon ]

Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness. [ Alice Cary ]

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity. [ Goldsmith ]

We have sometimes loved so much that there is nothing left in our hearts that enables us to love again. [ Rochebrune ]

Happiness is matter of opinion, of fancy, in fact, but it must amount to conviction, else it is nothing. [ Chamfort ]

Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]

Is example nothing? It is every thing. Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. [ Edmund Burke ]

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

A man behind the times is apt to speak ill of them, on the principle that nothing looks well from behind. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor. [ Barrow ]

God is a blank tablet on which nothing further is inscribed than what thou hast thyself written thereupon. [ Luther ]

Experience teaches us again and again that there is nothing men have less command over than their tongues. [ Spinoza ]

By nothing do men more show what they are than by their appreciation of what is and what is not ridiculous. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Women are shy of nothing so much as the little word Yes, at least they say it only after they have said No. [ Jean Paul ]

There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune. [ Cicero ]

One dies twice: to cease to live is nothing, but to cease to love and to be loved is an insupportable death. [ Voltaire ]

Nature works after such eternal, necessary, divine laws, that the Deity himself could alter nothing in them. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, after Spinoza ]

Nothing makes old people who have been attractive more ridiculous than to forget that they are so no longer. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

You must say and do nothing against the bent of your genius, (i.e. in default of the necessary inspiration.) [ Horace ]

In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straightforward, and springs from the heart. [ Cicero ]

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear. [ Goethe ]

There is nothing more allied to the barbarous and savage character than sullenness, concealment, and reserve. [ Parke Godwin ]

Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few. [ Seneca ]

Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness. [ Sheridan ]

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others. [ Fielding ]

Nothing affords greater pleasure to the members of the family than the cultivation and daily sight of flowers. [ D. D. T. Moore ]

There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches. [ Bible ]

Every lie, great or small, is the brink of a precipice, the depth of which nothing but omniscience can fathom. [ Reade ]

Life, as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence where it comes upon soundings. [ Holmes ]

I would give nothing for the Christianity of a man whose very dog and cat were not the better for his religion. [ Rowland Hill ]

Nothing under heaven so strongly does allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love bait. [ Spenser ]

There is nothing more tiresome than the conversation of a lover who has nothing to desire, and nothing to fear. [ Mme. de Sartory ]

Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution. [ Dryden ]

For cowards the road of desertion should be left open. They will carry over to the enemy nothing but their fears. [ Bovee ]

Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found. [ Auerbach ]

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally occasion ourselves. [ Beaconsfield ]

All nations that grew great out of little or nothing did so merely by the public-mindedness of particular persons. [ South ]

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word. [ Joseph Roux ]

There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin. [ J. G. Holland ]

War, with all its evils, is better than a peace in which there is nothing to be seen but usurpation and injustice. [ Pitt ]

Nothing is rarer than real goodness; those even who think they possess it are generally only good-natured and weak. [ La Roche ]

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious, as to have friends at a distance: they make the latitudes and longitudes. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]

Reputation is a jewel which nothing can replace; it is ten thousand times more valuable capital than your diamonds. [ Laboulaye ]

It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by prudence. [ Dryden ]

In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man. nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study. [ Theodore Parker ]

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

Intellectual progress, separated from moral progress, gives a fearful result: a being possessing nothing but brains. [ A. de Gasparin ]

I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms. [ Beaconsfield ]

With parsimony a little is sufficient, and without it nothing is sufficient, whereas frugality makes a poor man rich. [ Seneca ]

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. [ Hare ]

There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship; and indeed friendship itself is only a part of virtue. [ Pope ]

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy. He does not like to hear the truth, and he shuns telling it. [ Pascal ]

Oft have I thought - jabber as he will, how learned soever, man knows nothing but what he has learned from experience! [ Wieland ]

There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance. [ J. G. Holland ]

He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. [ Ben. Franklin ]

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know everything, and people who know nothing. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme, - to be sublimely great, or to be nothing. [ Southern ]

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. [ Hume ]

Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling. [ Draper ]

Why go I into details? we have nothing that is not perishable, except what our hearts and our intellects endow us with. [ Ovid ]

Between the great things that we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing. [ Adolph Monod ]

His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing. [ Lavater ]

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly. [ Addison ]

What is admirable justly calls forth our admiration, yet a woman seems to be no true woman who calls forth nothing else. [ Platen ]

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. [ Stanislaus ]

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so it is of small wits to talk much and say nothing. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Bad is by its very nature negative, and can do nothing; whatsoever enables us to do anything, is by its very nature good. [ Carlyle ]

There is nothing in the world that remains unchanged. All things are in perpetual flux, and every shadow is seen to move. [ Ovid ]

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success. [ Denzel Washington ]

Nothing can embellish a beautiful face more than a narrow band that indicates a small wound drawn crosswise over the brow. [ Richter ]

To educate a man is to form an individual who leaves nothing behind him; to educate a woman is to form future generations. [ E. Laboulaye ]

Some men will believe nothing but what they can comprehend; and there are but few things that such are able to comprehend. [ St. Evremond ]

We all drink at the spring of happiness in a fractured vase: when it reaches our lips, there is almost nothing left in it. [ Mme. du Deffand ]

I see nothing worth living for but the divine virtue which endures and surrenders all things for truth, duty, and mankind. [ Channing ]

A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round, If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground. [ Longfellow ]

Venus was the daughter of the waves. She gave birth to Love: we can expect nothing but tempest from a daughter of the sea.

Never argue. In society nothing must be: give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation. [ Beaconsfield ]

Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Nothing reveals character more than self-sacrifice. So the highest knowledge we have of God is through the gift of His Son. [ William Harris ]

Chance is but a mere name, and really nothing in itself; a conception of our minds, and only a compendious way of speaking. [ Bentley ]

Nothing is so wholesome, nothing does so much for people's looks, as a little interchange of the small coin of benevolence. [ Ruffini ]

Man is the highest product of his own history. The Discoverer finds nothing so tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. [ Theodore Parker ]

The art requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. [ Isaac Disraeli ]

Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things. [ James Howell ]

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered; nothing more readily received; nothing more widely dispersed. [ Cicero ]

Nothing can we call our own but death, and that small model of the barren earth which serves as paste and cover to our bones. [ William Shakespeare ]

There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it in expecting evil before it arrives? [ Seneca ]

Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune. [ Bruyere ]

As for me, give me turtle or give me death. What is life without turtle? nothing. What is turtle without life? nothinger still. [ Artemus Ward ]

Let us not disdain glory too much - nothing is finer except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life. [ Chateaubriand ]

Nothing has wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal. [ Barrow ]

The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful, ever-living agent. [ Newton ]

Nothing on earth is without significance, but the first and most essential in every matter is the place where and the hour when. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always inquiring never learn anything. [ I. Disraeli ]

The thing formed says that nothing formed it; and that which is made is, while that which made it is not! The folly is infinite. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

There is nothing so small but that we may honour God by asking his guidance of it, or insult him by taking it into our own hands. [ John Ruskin ]

All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

All the countries of our globe have been discovered, all the seas have been furrowed: nothing remains to traverse but the heavens. [ Baron Taylor ]

The highest exercise of invention has nothing to do with fiction; but is an invention of new truth, what we can call a revelation. [ Carlyle ]

Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less. [ Whately ]

It is an invariable maxim that words which add nothing to the sense or to the clearness must diminish the force of the expression. [ Campbell ]

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like a potato, - the only good belonging to him is underground. [ Sir Thomas Overbury ]

Of all the marvelous works of the Deity, perhaps there is nothing that angels behold with such supreme astonishment as a proud man. [ Colton ]

Jesus wept once; possibly more than once. There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience, and tears. [ Charles S. Robinson ]

As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say, nothing. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Without earnestness there is nothing to be done in life; yet among the people we name cultivated, little earnestness is to be found. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing. [ Amiel ]

There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them. [ Montaigne ]

We learn nothing from mere hearing, and he who does not take an active part in certain subjects knows them but half and superficially. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

There are principles excellent for certain firm and energetic characters, which would be worth nothing for those of an inferior order. [ Chamfort ]

Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field. [ Wendell Phillips ]

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins. [ Isaac Disraeli ]

To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter; sons have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined to endearing fondness. [ Euripides ]

Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful. [ Cicero ]

Suspicions are nothing when a man is really true, and every one should persevere in acting honestly, for all will be made right in time. [ Hans Andersen ]

No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation. [ Johnson ]

Brevity in writing is what charity is to all other virtues - righteousness is nothing without the one, nor authorship without the other. [ Sydney Smith ]

Discover the opinion of your enemies, which is commonly the truest; for they will give you no quarter, and allow nothing to complaisance. [ Dryden ]

A strong soil that has produced weeds may be made to produce wheat with far less difficulty than it would cost to make it produce nothing. [ Colton ]

In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing. [ Landor ]

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People that have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. [ Jeremy Collier ]

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. [ Ben. Franklin ]

The production of something, where nothing was before, is an act of greater energy than the expansion or decoration of the thing produced. [ Johnson ]

We can say nothing but what hath been said. Our poets steal from Homer. Our storydressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best. [ Burton ]

The conversation of women in society resembles the straw used in packing china: it is nothing, yet, without it, everything would be broken. [ Mme. de Salm ]

Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing; but the conquest of God through love. [ Amiel ]

Nothing is more common than to talk of a friend; nothing more difficult than to find one; nothing more rare than to improve one as we ought. [ Henry A. Oakley ]

Power of imagination is regulated only by art, especially by poetry. There is nothing more frightful than imaginative faculty without taste. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

It often requires more strength and judgment to resist than to embrace an opportunity. It is better to do nothing than to do other than well. [ Sydney Dobell ]

We should learn, by reflecting on the misfortunes which have attended others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves. [ Melmoth ]

Nothing is so embarrassing as the first tête-à-tête when there is everything to say, unless it be the last, when everything has been said. [ N. Roqueplan ]

There is nothing truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure. [ Addison ]

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker. [ George Eliot ]

Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell a man at once and straightforward the purpose of any object, he fancies there's nothing in it. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil. [ James A. Garfield ]

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life, [ Marcus Aurelius ]

There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

There are women so hard to please that it seems as if nothing less than an angel will suit them: hence it comes that they often meet with devils. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast; and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood. [ Tillotson ]

Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts. [ Zimmermann ]

Nothing, or almost nothing, is certain to me, except the Divine Infernal character of this universe I live in, worthy of horror, worthy of worship. [ Carlyle ]

Perpetual solitude, in a place where you see nothing to raise your spirits, at length wears them out, and conversation falls into dull and insipid. [ Lady Montagu ]

Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age. [ Burke ]

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else. [ Carlyle ]

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even for our virtues. [ Balzac ]

There are forty men of wit for one of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of ready change. [ Unknown ]

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself. [ Lamb ]

Love breaks in with lightning flash: friendship comes like dawning moonlight. Love will obtain and possess; friendship makes sacrifices but asks nothing. [ Geibel ]

Dreams are the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy; which is as thin of substance as the air, and more inconstant than the wind. [ William Shakespeare ]

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. [ George Eliot ]

There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint. [ Montaigne ]

There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

To give you nothing and to make you expect everything, to dawdle on the threshold of love, while the doors are closed: this is all the science of a coquette. [ De Bernard ]

In all the world there is no vice Less prone to excess than avarice; It neither cares for food nor clothing; Nature's content with little - that with nothing. [ Butler ]

There are a sort of friends, who in your poverty do nothing but torment and taunt you with accounts of what you might have been had you followed their advice. [ Zimmerman ]

The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage. [ Epes Sargent ]

Nothing lives in literature but that which has in it the vitality of the creative art; and it would be safe advice to the young to read nothing but what is old. [ K P. Whipple ]

I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence. [ Swift ]

Gunpowder makes all men alike tall.... Hereby at last is the Goliath powerless and the David resistless; savage animalism is nothing, inventive spiritualism is all. [ Carlyle ]

A really grand passion is comparatively rare nowadays. It is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. That is the only use of the idle classes in the country. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are infinite in the past [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she is not it were better that nothing should be. [ Colton ]

Every thought and word and deed, of every human being, is followed by its inevitable consequence: for the one we are responsible; with the other we have nothing to do. [ Gail Hamilton ]

The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertions of human nature; and what nature will he honor who honors not the human? [ Lavater ]

What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller? [ Landor ]

Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes. [ Emerson ]

The greatest cosmopolites are generally the neediest beggars, and they who embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part, love nothing but their narrow self. [ Herder ]

Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the other two are but journeymen, set it to work. [ Fielding ]

When the heart of man is serene and tranquil, he wants to enjoy nothing but himself: every movement, even corporeal movement, shakes the brimming nectar cup too rudely. [ Richter ]

Truth is always consistent with itself and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware. [ Tillotson ]

The truly great are to be found everywhere; nor is it easy to say in what condition they spring up most plentifully. Real greatness has nothing to do with a man's sphere. [ William Ellery Channing ]

Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion. [ Henry Home ]

Nothing so uncertain as general reputation. A man injures me from humor, passion, or interest; hates me because he has injured me; and speaks ill of me because he hates me. [ Henry Home ]

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing. [ Barrow ]

In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with himself, but he must not attempt to do too much with others. [ Wilhelm von Humboldt ]

Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. His name, like a shuttlecock, must be beat backward and forward, or it falls to the ground. [ Johnson ]

Nothing is more unreasonable than to entangle our spirits in wildness and amazement; like a partridge flattering in a net, which she breaks not, though she breaks her wings. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes true feminine beauty as simplicity. [ George D. Prentice ]

Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn.... Unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble. [ Talfourd ]

A misanthrope was told of a young friend of his: Your friend has no experience of the world; he knows nothing about it. True; but he is already as sad as if he knew all about it.

The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. [ Seneca ]

Wise men are wise but not prudent, in that they know nothing of what is for their own advantage, but know surpassing things, marvellous things, difficult things, and divine things. [ John Ruskin ]

Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else: but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness. [ William Law ]

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 ]

The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first [ Joubert ]

Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough, and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort. [ Goldsmith ]

Nothing makes so much impression on the heart of man as the voice of friendship when it is really known to be such; for we are aware that it never speaks to us except for our advantage. [ Rousseau ]

Nothing, in truth, has such a tendency to weaken not only the powers of invention, but the intellectual powers in general, as a habit of extensive and various reading without reflection. [ Dugald Stewart ]

The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight, and to let nothing appear but his characters. As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feelings, the illusion is broken. [ Macaulay ]

Nobody can live by teaching any more than by learning; both teaching and learning are proper duties of human life, or pleasures of it, but have nothing whatever to do with the support of it. [ John Ruskin ]

Nothing can supply the place of books. They are cheering or soothing companions in solitude, illness, affliction. The wealth of both continents would not compensate for the good they impart. [ Channing ]

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever does or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless changes. [ Carlyle ]

I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief; in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath. [ Richter ]

Genius is nothing more than our common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials. [ B. R. Haydon ]

O brave poets! keep back nothing, nor mix falsehood with the whole; look up Godward; speak the truth in worthy song from earnest soul; hold, in high poetic duty, truest truth the fairest beauty! [ Mrs. Browning ]

There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance, or worth. [ Young ]

The truth of it is, there is nothing in history which is so improving to the reader as those accounts which we meet with of the death of eminent persons and of their behavior in that dreadful season. [ Addison ]

There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. Like imprisoned steam, the more it is pressed the more it rises to resist the pressure. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish. [ T. Edwards ]

We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish. [ Cicero ]

It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when there was nothing else to do, would issue the order to scour the anchor. [ Samuel Smiles ]

If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies. Nothing is denied to well-directed labor: nothing is ever to be attained without it. [ Sir Joshua Reynolds ]

Nothing is so difficult as the apparent ease of a clear and flowing style; those graces which, from their presumed facility, encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable. [ Colton ]

Don Quixote is, after all, the defender of the oppressed, the champion of lost causes, and the man of noble aberrations. Woe to the centuries without Don Quixotes! Nothing remains to them but Sancho Panzas. [ A. de Gasparin ]

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it is the real allegory of the tale of Orpheus; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it. [ Bulwer ]

Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost one nothing but pen, ink, and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where the exchange is always greatly in favor of the drawer. [ Chesterfield ]

Put a seal upon your lips and forget what you have done. After you have been kind, after love hath stolen forth into the world and done its beautiful work, go back into the shade again and say nothing about it.

Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers. [ Helvetius ]

The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it Axes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. [ Pascal ]

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half as useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense. And he that will carry nothing about him but gold will be every day at a loss for readier change. [ Pope ]

Nothing affects the heart like that which is purely from itself, and of its own nature; such as the beauty of sentiments, the grace of actions, the turn of characters, and the proportions and features of a human mind. [ Shaftesbury ]

I am constitutionally susceptible of noises; a carpenter's hammer, in a warm summer noon, will fret me into more than midsummer madness; but those unconnected, unset sounds are nothing to the measured malice of music. [ C. Lamb ]

In the moral world nothing is lost, as in the material world nothing is annihilated. All our thoughts and all our sentiments here below, are but the beginning of sentiments and thoughts that will be finished elsewhere. [ Joubert ]

Give him gold enough, and marry him to a puppet, or an aglet-baby; or an old trot with never a tooth in her head, though she have as many diseases as two and fifty horses; why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal. [ William Shakespeare ]

Diligence is the mistress of learning, without which nothing can either be spoken or done in this life with commendation, and without which it is altogether impossible to prove learned, much less excellent in any science. [ Madeleine Guerchois ]

Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it becomes literally true that no imposition is too great for the credulity of men. [ Thoreau ]

The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. [ B. R. Haydon ]

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousand truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away. [ Beecher ]

To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence: for to be what some people, call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking. [ Addison ]

It is the passions which do and undo everything; if reason ruled, nothing would get on. It is said that pilots fear beyond everything those halcyon seas where the vessel obeys not the helm, and that they prefer wind at the risk of storms. [ Fontenelle ]

There is nothing so sure of succeeding as not to be over brilliant, as to be entirely wrapped up in one's self, and endowed with a perseverance which, in spite of all the rebuffs it may meet with, never relaxes in the pursuit of its object. [ Baron de Grimm ]

Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory. Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no material can produce no combinations. [ Sir J. Reynolds ]

There is nothing like youth. The middle aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile, like most kings. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain. There is nothing in the world as unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

Nothing on earth is without difficulty. Only the inner impulse, the pleasure it gives and love enable us to surmount obstacles; to make smooth our way, and lift ourselves out of the narrow grooves in which other people sorrowfully distress themselves. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Why does the evening, does the night, put warmer love in our hearts? Is it the nightly pressure of helplessness? or is it the exalting separation from the turmoils of life - that veiling of the world in which for the soul nothing then remains but souls? [ Richter ]

When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move, as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest. [ Colton ]

Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in speaking their minds. A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune. [ Steele ]

Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied. [ Johnson ]

How many who, after having achieved fame and fortune, recall with regret the time when - ascending the hills of life in the sun of their twentieth year - they had nothing but courage, which is the virtue of the young, and hope, which is the treasure of the poor! [ H. Murger ]

All the makers of dictionaries, all compilers who do nothing else than repeat backwards and forwards the opinions, the errors, the impostures, and the truths already printed, we may term plagiarists: but honest plagiarists, who arrogate not the merit of invention. [ Voltaire ]

Nature gives you the impression as if there were nothing contradictory in the world; and yet, when you return back to the dwelling-place of man, be it lofty or low, wide or narrow, there is ever somewhat to contend with, to battle with, to smooth and put to rights. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others. O, we need it! We need all the counterweights we can muster to balance the sad relations of life. God has made many sunny spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light from them? [ Haliburton ]

To men addicted to delights, business is an interruption; to such as are cold to delights, business is an entertainment. For which reason it was said to one who commended a dull man for his application: No thanks to him; if he had no business, he would have nothing to do. [ Steele ]

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say: but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. [ Voltaire ]

Socrates was pronounced by the oracle of Delphos to be the wisest man in Greece, which he would turn from himself ironically, saying there could be nothing in him to verify the oracle, except this, that he was not wise and knew it, and others were not wise and knew it not. [ Bacon ]

Nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor. [ Voltaire ]

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. [ Pilpay ]

I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression, - a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination. [ Cicero ]

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune; such is the extensiveness thereof, that it stoopeth so low as brute beasts, yet mounteth as high as angels; horses will do more for a whistle than for a whip, and by hearing their bells, jingle away their weariness. [ T. Fuller ]

Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms together, and you have St. Paul's Church. So it is with human felicity, which is made up of many ingredients, each of which may be shown to be very insignificant. [ Dr. Johnson ]

As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite - variety; so repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite - energy. It is the most unfailing test of beauty; nothing can be ignoble that possesses it, nothing right that has it not. [ Ruskin ]

Extreme old age is childhood; extreme wisdom is ignorance, for so it may be called, since the man whom the oracle pronounced the wisest of men professed that he knew nothing; yea, push a coward to the extreme and he will show courage; oppress a man to the last, and he will rise above oppression. [ J. Beaumont ]

Talk to the point, and stop when you have reached it. The faculty some possess of making one idea cover a quire of paper is not good for much. Be comprehensive in all you say or write. To fill a volume upon nothing is a credit to nobody; though Lord Chesterfield wrote a very clever poem upon nothing. [ John Neal ]

Dangers are no more light if they once seem light, and more dangers have deceived men than forced them; nay, it were better to meet some dangers half-way, though they come nothing near, than to keep too long a watch upon their approaches; for if a man watch too long it is odds be will fall fast asleep. [ Bacon ]

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner time; keep back the tears, and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, Oh, nothing! Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts, not to hurt others. [ George Eliot ]

The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him. [ Seneca ]

There is nothing more necessary to establish reputation than to suspend the enjoyment of it. He that cannot bear the sense of merit with silence must of necessity destroy it; for fame being the genial mistress of mankind, whoever gives it to himself insults all to whom he relates any circumstance to his own advantage. [ Steele ]

Talk, except as the preparation for work, is worth almost nothing; sometimes it is worth infinitely less than nothing; and becomes, little conscious of playing such a fatal part, the general summary of pretentious nothingnesses, and the chief of all the curses the posterity of Adam are liable to in this sublunary world. [ Carlyle ]

Gallantry to women (the sure road to their favor) is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute towards it. The slightest indifference with regard to them, or distrust of yourself is equally fatal. [ Hazlitt ]

Taking our stand on the immovable rock of Christ's character we risk nothing in saying that the wine of miracle answered to the wine of nature, and was not intoxicating. No counterproof can equal the force of that drawn from His attributes. It is an indecency and a calumny to impute to Christ conduct which requires apology. [ Abraham Coles ]

It has become a settled principle that nothing which is good and true can be destroyed by persecution, but that the effect ultimately is to establish more firmly, and to spread more widely, that which it was designed to overthrow. It has long since passed into a proverb that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. [ Albert Barnes ]

It unfortunately happens that no man believes that he is likely to die soon. So every one is much disposed to defer the consideration of what ought to be done on the supposition of such an emergency; and while nothing is so uncertain as human life, so nothing is so certain as our assurance that we shall survive most of our neighbors. [ Aughey ]

Vulgar habit people have nowadays of asking one, after one has given them an idea, whether one is serious or not. Nothing is serious except passion. The intellect is an instrument on which one plays, that is all. The only serious form of intellect is the British intellect. And on the British form of intellect the illiterates play the drum. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

The maxim of Cleobulus, Mediocrity is best, has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and nature. The experience of every age seems to have given it new confirmation, and to show that nothing, however specious or alluring, is pursued with propriety or enjoyed with safety beyond certain limits. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Nothing makes a woman more esteemed by the opposite sex than chastity; whether it be that we always prize those most who are hardest to come at, or that nothing besides chastity, with its collateral attendants, truth, fidelity, and constancy, gives the man a property in the person he loves, and consequently endears her to him above all things. [ Addison ]

There are so many things to lower a man's top-sails - he is such a dependent creature - he is to pay such court to his stomach, his food, his sleep, his exercise - that, in truth, a hero is an idle word. Man seems formed to be a hero in suffering, not a hero in action. Men err in nothing more than in the estimate which they make of human labor. [ Cecil ]

Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color; for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are blue; her fields, green; her waters vary with her skies; her animals, vegetables, minerals, are all colored. She paints a great many of them in apparently superfluous hues, as if to show the dullest eye how she loves color. [ Leigh Hunt ]

What is it that keeps men in continual discontent and agitation? It is that they cannot make realities correspond with their conceptions, that enjoyment steals away from among their hands, that the wished-for comes too late, and nothing reached and acquired produces on the heart the effect which their longing for it at a distance led them to anticipate. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things! Each has what the other has not; each completes the other; they are in nothing alike; and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give. [ Ruskin ]

The dramatist, like the poet, is born, not made. There must be inspiration back of all true and permanent art, dramatic or otherwise, and art is universal: there is nothing national about it. Its field is humanity, and it takes in all the world; nor does anything else afford the refuge that is provided by it from all troubles and all the vicissitudes of life. [ William Winter ]

It is the nature of man to be proud, when man by nature hath nothing to be proud of. He more adorneth the creature than he adoreth the Creator; and makes not only his belly his god, but his body. I am ashamed of their glory whose glory is their shame. If nature will needs have me to be proud of something, I will be proud only of this, that I am proud of nothing. [ Arthur Warwick ]

Nothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There is no sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever he lists, wherever he finds material suited to his work. He may even appropriate entire columns with their carved capitals, if the temple he thus supports be a beautiful one. Goethe understood this very well, and so did Shakespeare before him. [ Heinrich Heine ]

The golden ripple on the wall came back again, and nothing else stirred in the room. The old, old fashion! The fashion that came in with our first garments, and will last unchanged until our race has run its course, and the wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll. The old, old fashion, - Death! Oh, thank God, all who see it, for that older fashion yet, - of Immortality! [ Charles Dickens ]

Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all can never hit it. Irresolution loosens all the joints of a state; like an ague, it shakes not this nor that limb, but all the body is at once in a fit. The irresolute man is lifted from one place to another; so hatcheth nothing, but addles all his actions. [ Feltham ]

There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the highest powers of the human mind to produce the miracles of art, as for other men to breathe or move. Correggio, who is said to have produced some of his divinest works almost without having seen a picture, probably did not know that he had done anything extraordinary. [ Hazlitt ]

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given; often it is but a false glare, dazzling the eyes of the vulgar, lending, by casual extrinsic splendour, the brightness and manifold glance of the diamond to pebbles of no value. [ Carlyle ]

A woman at middle age retains nothing of the pettiness of youth; she is a friend who gives you all the feminine delicacies, who displays all the graces, all the prepossessions which Nature has given to woman to please man, but who no longer sells these qualities. She is hateful or lovable, according to her pretensions to youth, whether they exist under the epidermis or whether they are dead. [ Balzac ]

There is the same difference between diligence and neglect, that there is between a garden curiously kept and the sluggard's field when it was all overgrown with nettles and thorns; the one is clothed with beauty and the gracious amiableness of content and cheering loveliness; while the other hath nothing but either little smarting pungencies or else such transpiercings as rankle the flesh within. [ Feltham ]

No man was ever endowed with a judgment so correct and judicious, in regulating his life, but that circumstances, time and experience would teach him something new, and apprize him that of those things with which he thought himself the best acquainted he knew nothing; and that those ideas which in theory appeared the most advantageous were found, when brought into practice, to be altogether inapplicable. [ Terence ]

Mr. Johnson had never, by his own account, been a close student, and used to advise young people never to be without a book in their pocket, to be read at bye-times, when they had nothing else to do. It has been by that means, said he to a boy at our house one day, that all my knowledge has been gained, except what I have picked up by running about the world with my wits ready to observe, and my tongue ready to talk. [ Mrs. Piozzi ]

Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Domitian said, that nothing was more grateful; Aristotle afirmed that beauty was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature, and Ovid, alluding to him, calls it a favor bestowed by the gods. [ From the Italian ]

Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. There are three requisitions to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings, - a thankful reflection on the goodness of the Giver, a deep sense of our unworthiness, a recollection of the uncertainty of long possessing them. The first would make us grateful; the second, humble; and the third, moderate. [ Hannah More ]

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. In due time, when we have nothing better to set people to work at, it may be right to let them make lace and cut jewels; but as long as there are any who have no blankets for their beds, and no rags for their bodies, so long it is blanketmaking and tailoring we must set people to work at, not lace. [ Ruskin ]

Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose in agitation, as children do by being rocked in a cradle. They may pronounce themselves as serviceable to their friends as troublesome to themselves. No one distributes his money to others, but every one therein distributes his time and his life. There is nothing of which we are so prodigal as of those two things, of which to be thrifty would be both commendable and useful. [ Montaigne ]

We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the soul. It is not to be surprised by any communication. Nothing can be greater than it. Let those fear and those fawn who will. The soul is in her native realm; and it is wider than space, older than time, wide as hope, rich as love. Pusillanimity and fear she refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who putteth on her coronation robes, and goes out through universal love to universal power. [ Emerson ]

Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm. [ Swift ]

Two things a master commits to his servant's care - the child and the child's clothes. It will be a poor excuse for the servant to say, at his master's return, Sir, here are all the child's clothes, neat and clean, but the child is lost. Much so of the account that many will give to God of their souls and bodies at the great day. Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for my soul, that is lost and cast away forever. I took little care and thought about it. [ John Flavel ]

If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter (speaking as to the concernments of this world), if a man spent his reputation all at once, and ventured it at one throw; but if he be to continue in the world, and would have the advantage of conversation while he is in it, let him make use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions; for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end. [ Tillotson ]

The man who makes a success of an important venture never waits for the crowd. He strikes out for himself. It takes nerve, it takes a great lot of grit; but the man that succeeds has both. Anyone can fail. The public admires the man who has enough confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are the main things after all. The man who tries to succeed must expect to be criticised. Nothing important was ever done but the greater number consulted previously doubted the possibility. Success is the accomplishment of that which most people think can't be done. [ C. V. White ]

I was walking in the street, a beggar stopped me, — a frail old man. His inflamed, tearful eyes, blue lips, rough rags, disgusting sores . . . oh, how horribly poverty had disfigured the unhappy creature! He stretched out to me his red, swollen, filthy hand. He groaned and whimpered for alms. I felt in all my pockets. No purse, watch, or handkerchief did I find. I had left them all at home. The beggar waited and his out-stretched hand twitched and trembled slightly. Embarrassed and confused, I seized his dirty hand and pressed it. Don't be vexed with me, brother; I have nothing with me, brother. The beggar raised his bloodshot eyes to mine; his blue lips smiled, and he returned the pressure of my chilled fingers. Never mind, brother, stammered he; thank you for this — this, too, was a gift, brother. I felt that I, too, had received a gift from my brother. [ Ivan Tourgueneff ]

nothing in Scrabble®

The word nothing is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters nothing:

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word nothing

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In nothing

NOTHING
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NOTHING
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NOTHING
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NOTHING
(76 = 26 + 50)
NOTHING
(76 = 26 + 50)
NOTHING
(76 = 26 + 50)
NOTHING
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NOTHING
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NOTHING
(74 = 24 + 50)
NOTHING
(74 = 24 + 50)
NOTHING
(74 = 24 + 50)
NOTHING
(72 = 22 + 50)
NOTHING
(72 = 22 + 50)
NOTHING
(72 = 22 + 50)
NOTHING
(72 = 22 + 50)
NOTHING
(72 = 22 + 50)
NOTHING
(69 = 19 + 50)
NOTHING
(67 = 17 + 50)
NOTHING
(66 = 16 + 50)
NOTHING
(66 = 16 + 50)
NOTHING
(65 = 15 + 50)
NOTHING
(65 = 15 + 50)
NOTHING
(65 = 15 + 50)
NOTHING
(65 = 15 + 50)
NOTHING
(65 = 15 + 50)
NOTHING
(64 = 14 + 50)
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(63 = 13 + 50)
NOTHING
(63 = 13 + 50)
NOTHING
(63 = 13 + 50)
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(42)
THONG
(39)
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(39)
NIGHT
(39)
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(36)
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(36)
NINTH
(36)
NIGH
(36)
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(36)
THONG
(33)
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(33)
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(33)
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(33)
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(33)
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(32)
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(30)
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(28)
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(24)
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(22)
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(22)
TING
(21)
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(21)
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(21)
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(21)
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(21)
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(21)
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(21)
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(21)
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(21)
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(21)
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(21)
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(21)
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(21)
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(21)
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(21)
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(21)
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(20)
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(18)
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(18)
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(18)
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(18)
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(18)
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(18)
TONG
(18)

nothing in Words With Friends™

The word nothing is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters nothing:

NOTHING
(104 = 69 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

nothing

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word nothing

NOTHING
(104 = 69 + 35)
NOTHING
(98 = 63 + 35)
NOTHING
(98 = 63 + 35)
NOTHING
(92 = 57 + 35)
NOTHING
(92 = 57 + 35)
NOTHING
(92 = 57 + 35)
NOTHING
(92 = 57 + 35)
NOTHING
(87 = 52 + 35)
NOTHING
(87 = 52 + 35)
NOTHING
(87 = 52 + 35)
NOTHING
(86 = 51 + 35)
NOTHING
(86 = 51 + 35)
NOTHING
(80 = 45 + 35)
NOTHING
(73 = 38 + 35)
NOTHING
(69 = 34 + 35)
NOTHING
(69 = 34 + 35)
NOTHING
(67 = 32 + 35)
NOTHING
(65 = 30 + 35)
NOTHING
(65 = 30 + 35)
NOTHING
(65 = 30 + 35)
NOTHING
(65 = 30 + 35)
NOTHING
(65 = 30 + 35)
NOTHING
(63 = 28 + 35)
NOTHING
(63 = 28 + 35)
NOTHING
(63 = 28 + 35)
NOTHING
(61 = 26 + 35)
NOTHING
(61 = 26 + 35)
NOTHING
(61 = 26 + 35)
NOTHING
(61 = 26 + 35)
NOTHING
(61 = 26 + 35)
NOTHING
(61 = 26 + 35)
NOTHING
(61 = 26 + 35)
NOTHING
(56 = 21 + 35)
NOTHING
(55 = 20 + 35)
NOTHING
(54 = 19 + 35)
NOTHING
(54 = 19 + 35)
NOTHING
(54 = 19 + 35)
NOTHING
(54 = 19 + 35)
NOTHING
(54 = 19 + 35)
NOTHING
(54 = 19 + 35)
NOTHING
(53 = 18 + 35)
NOTHING
(53 = 18 + 35)
NOTHING
(53 = 18 + 35)
NOTHING
(53 = 18 + 35)
NOTHING
(52 = 17 + 35)
NOTHING
(52 = 17 + 35)
NOTHING
(52 = 17 + 35)
NOTHING
(51 = 16 + 35)
NOTHING
(51 = 16 + 35)
NOTHING
(51 = 16 + 35)
NOTHING
(51 = 16 + 35)
NOTHING
(50 = 15 + 35)
NOTHING
(50 = 15 + 35)
NOTHING
(50 = 15 + 35)
NOTHING
(49 = 14 + 35)
NOTHING
(49 = 14 + 35)
NOTHING
(49 = 14 + 35)
NOTHING
(48 = 13 + 35)

The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In nothing

NOTHING
(104 = 69 + 35)
NOTHING
(98 = 63 + 35)
NOTHING
(98 = 63 + 35)
NOTHING
(92 = 57 + 35)
NOTHING
(92 = 57 + 35)
NOTHING
(92 = 57 + 35)
NOTHING
(92 = 57 + 35)
NOTHING
(87 = 52 + 35)
NOTHING
(87 = 52 + 35)
NOTHING
(87 = 52 + 35)
NOTHING
(86 = 51 + 35)
NOTHING
(86 = 51 + 35)
NOTHING
(80 = 45 + 35)
NOTHING
(73 = 38 + 35)
NOTHING
(69 = 34 + 35)
NOTHING
(69 = 34 + 35)
NOTHING
(67 = 32 + 35)
HONING
(66)
NOTHING
(65 = 30 + 35)
NOTHING
(65 = 30 + 35)
NOTHING
(65 = 30 + 35)
NOTHING
(65 = 30 + 35)
NOTHING
(65 = 30 + 35)
NOTHING
(63 = 28 + 35)
NOTHING
(63 = 28 + 35)
NOTHING
(63 = 28 + 35)
NOTHING
(61 = 26 + 35)
NOTHING
(61 = 26 + 35)
NOTHING
(61 = 26 + 35)
NOTHING
(61 = 26 + 35)
NOTHING
(61 = 26 + 35)
NOTHING
(61 = 26 + 35)
NOTHING
(61 = 26 + 35)
HONING
(60)
NOTHING
(56 = 21 + 35)
NOTHING
(55 = 20 + 35)
HONING
(54)
HONING
(54)
NOTHING
(54 = 19 + 35)
NOTHING
(54 = 19 + 35)
NOTHING
(54 = 19 + 35)
NOTING
(54)
NOTHING
(54 = 19 + 35)
NOTHING
(54 = 19 + 35)
NOTHING
(54 = 19 + 35)
TONING
(54)
NOTHING
(53 = 18 + 35)
NOTHING
(53 = 18 + 35)
NOTHING
(53 = 18 + 35)
NOTHING
(53 = 18 + 35)
NOTHING
(52 = 17 + 35)
NOTHING
(52 = 17 + 35)
NOTHING
(52 = 17 + 35)
NOTHING
(51 = 16 + 35)
NOTHING
(51 = 16 + 35)
NOTHING
(51 = 16 + 35)
NOTHING
(51 = 16 + 35)
NOTHING
(50 = 15 + 35)
NOTHING
(50 = 15 + 35)
NOTHING
(50 = 15 + 35)
NOTHING
(49 = 14 + 35)
NOTHING
(49 = 14 + 35)
NOTHING
(49 = 14 + 35)
TONING
(48)
HONING
(48)
NIGHT
(48)
NOTHING
(48 = 13 + 35)
HONING
(48)
HONING
(48)
THONG
(48)
THONG
(48)
TONING
(48)
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(48)
NOTING
(48)
THING
(48)
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(48)
NOTING
(48)
NIGH
(45)
NINTH
(45)
TONING
(42)
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(42)
THONG
(42)
NOTING
(42)
GOTH
(42)
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(42)
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(42)
NIGHT
(42)
GOTH
(42)
THING
(42)
NOTING
(42)
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(40)
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(40)
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(40)
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(40)
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(39)
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(39)
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(39)
TING
(39)
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(39)
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(36)
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(36)
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(36)
NOTING
(36)
NOTING
(36)
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(36)
THONG
(36)
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(36)
NINTH
(36)
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(36)
TONING
(36)
INGOT
(36)
TONING
(36)
HONING
(36)
NIGHT
(36)
NIGHT
(36)
THIN
(33)
NINTH
(33)
NINTH
(33)
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(32)
NOTING
(32)
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(32)
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(32)
THONG
(32)
INGOT
(32)
NIGHT
(30)
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(30)
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(30)
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(30)
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(30)
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(30)
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(30)
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(30)
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(30)
NOTING
(30)
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(30)
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(30)
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(30)
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(30)
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(30)
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(30)
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(30)
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(30)
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(28)
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(28)
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(28)
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(28)
NOTING
(28)
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(28)
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(28)
TING
(27)
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(27)
TONG
(27)
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(27)
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(27)
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(27)
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(27)
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(27)
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(27)
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(27)
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(27)
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(26)
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(26)
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(26)
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(26)
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(26)
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(26)
NINTH
(26)
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(26)
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(26)
NIGHT
(26)
INGOT
(24)
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(24)
NIGH
(24)
INGOT
(24)
THONG
(24)
NOTING
(24)
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(24)
GOTH
(24)
NOTING
(24)
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(24)
HONING
(24)
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(24)
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(24)
NIGHT
(24)
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(24)
THONG
(24)
THING
(24)
NIGHT
(24)
THING
(24)
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(24)
NINTH
(24)
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(24)
INGOT
(24)
GOTH
(24)
NOTING
(24)
GOTH
(24)

Words within the letters of nothing

2 letter words in nothing (8 words)

3 letter words in nothing (11 words)

4 letter words in nothing (7 words)

5 letter words in nothing (5 words)

6 letter words in nothing (3 words)

7 letter words in nothing (1 word)

nothing + 2 blanks (4 words)

Words containing the sequence nothing

Words that start with nothing (3 words)

Words with nothing in them (2 words)

Words that end with nothing (2 words)

Word Growth involving nothing

Shorter words in nothing

no not

hi thin thing

in thin thing

Longer words containing nothing

goodfornothing goodfornothings

nothingness

nothings goodfornothings