A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry
always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire
It is dangerous to be right in matters
on which the established authorities are wrong.
- Voltaire
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire
The more he became truly wise,
the more he distrusted everything he knew.
- Voltaire
It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire
The more I read, the more I meditate;
and the more I acquire,
the more certain I am that I know nothing.
- Voltaire
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
Faith consists in believing when it is
beyond the power of reason to believe.
- Voltaire
Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
- Voltaire
Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust.
Service brings satisfaction.
Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
- James Cash Penney
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
Always forgive your enemies -
nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists?
In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
- Woody Allen
There's nothing wrong with being afraid.
We were meant to be afraid.
- the Woody Allen movie Anything Else
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
Gossip is the art of saying nothing
in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
- Walter Winchell
Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley
I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
- George Carlin
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain
I didn't make it all the way through third grade for nothing.
- the movie The Rescuers Down Under
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter
quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
- George Bernard Shaw
Nothing is as good for the soul as a marshmallow roast.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The universe we observe has precisely
the properties we should expect
if there is, at bottom, no design,
no purpose, no evil, no good,
nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Charles Darwin
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say,
abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
The third certainty of life, after death and taxes,
is that nothing will work out the way you want.
Life is fully as bad as you think it is.
Choose to live joyfully anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
- John Lennon
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little
I think that there is nothing, not even crime,
more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself
than this incessant business.
- Henry David Thoreau
The man who reads nothing at all
is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
- Albert Schweitzer
Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
The Christian missionary may preach the gospel
to the poor naked heathen,
but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe
have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
- Carl Jung
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
It is sad but unfortunately true that
man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask "Why me?"
Then a voice answers "Nothing personal,
your name just happened to come up. -
- Charlie Brown, in Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie
I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful
than a lifetime of nothing special.
- the movie Steel Magnolias
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
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