Quotes of Naught - somelinesforyou

“ In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost. ”

- Anne Sophie Swetchine

“ 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

“ There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. ”

- Lord Byron

“ A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught. ”

- William Butler Yeats

“ A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught. ”

- Mark Twain

“ All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato. ”

- George Santayana

“ Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice! ”

- Marquis de Sade

“ Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will — tomorrow! ”

- Gloria Pitzer

“ The deed is everything, the glory is naught. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it. ”

- John Keats

“ The deed is everything, the glory is naught. ”

- Goethe

“ Where naught abiding is but only change. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ Our own beliefs create inner turmoil or harmony and lifelong learning. If we can assimilate every event as instruction, nothing is wasted, no experience is for naught. ”

- Marsha Sinetar

“ I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more. ”

- Candice Bergen

“ I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. ”

- Glenda Jackson

“ Crime is naught but misdirected energy. ”

- Emma Goldman

“ Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught. ”

- Jacques Maritain

“ My men grow mutinous day by day; My men grow ghastly wan and weak! The stout Mate thought of home; a spray Of salt wavewashed his swarthy cheek. What shall I say, brave Admiral, say, If we sight naught but seas at dawn? Why, you shall say at break of day,. ”

- Unknown

“ Wherefore a man can know nothing by himself, save after a natural manner, which is only that which he attains by means of the senses. For this cause he must have the phantasms and the forms of objects present in themselves and in their likenesses; otherwise it cannot be, for, as philosophers say: Ab objecto et potentia paritur notitia… ”

- St. John of the Cross
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