Naught Quotes
135 quotes by 112 authors
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This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may…
— Robin Hobb
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First think of the person who lives in disguise, Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies. Next, tell me what's always the last…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.
— Edith Hamilton
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The maids in my village talked of falling in love with a man at first sight. That has always seemed naught but foolishness to me.…
— R.L. LaFevers
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The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Only your hearts be frolic, for the time Craves that we taste of naught but jouissance.
— Robert Greene
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A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make…
— Thomas a Kempis
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Too much to know is to know naught but fame.
— William Shakespeare
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In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.
— Sophie Swetchine
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He that enjoys naught without thanksgiving is as though he robbed God.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.
— William Shakespeare
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One day we will have more inflation, and our bonds will bleed like a pig. The only reason for buying long bonds is short-term or…
— Jeremy Grantham
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Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.
— Charles Studd
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All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
— George Santayana
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Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?
— Ada Cambridge
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A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures,…
— Emma Orczy
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DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number --just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice.…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Naught is said to you but what was said indeed to the apostles before you; surely your Lord is the Lord of forgiveness and the…
— Quran
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Know that this world's life is only sport and play and gaiety and boasting among yourselves, and a vying in the multiplication of wealth and…
— Quran
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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.
— Kahlil Gibran
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