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Nothing Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good.
- Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.
- The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we…
- Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
- The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison;…
- Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction to none of…
- The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and…
- Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling…
- No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man…
- Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with…
- When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
- He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool; since the most…
- The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
- There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be…
- Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
- When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
- Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
- There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
- Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over…
- Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that…
- Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
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- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
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- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it. — Billie Joe Armstrong