Nought Quotes

I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath. (Aesop)
If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It must be so - Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. View quote
Joseph Addison
Was there nought better than to enjoy No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due No forcing earth teach heaven's employ. View quote
Robert Browning
Shun delays, they breed remorse; Take thy time while time is lent thee; Creeping snails have weakest force, Fly their fault lest thou repent thee. Good is best when soonest wrought, Linger'd labours come to nought. View quote
Robert Southwell
She fair, he full of bashfulness and truth, Loved much, hoped little, and desired nought. View quote
Torquato Tasso
There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with for evil so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round. View quote
Robert Browning
Alas! for love, if thou art all, And nought beyond, O earth. View quote
Felicia Hemans
Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May. View quote
Geoffrey Chaucer
It is nought good a sleping hound to wake. View quote
Geoffrey Chaucer
Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older. (Max Müller)
Say not the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been, things remain. View quote
Arthur Hugh Clough
Ah, wasteful woman, she who may On her sweet self set her own price, Knowing man cannot choose but pay, How has she cheapen'd paradise; How given for nought her priceless gift, How spoil'd the bread and spill'd the wine, Which, spent with due, respective thrift, Had made brutes men, and men divine. View quote
Coventry Patmore
To have nought Is to have all things without care or thought! View quote
Coventry Patmore
The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley. An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy! View quote
Robert Burns
But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be. View quote
Robert Bridges
Nought venter nought have. View quote
John Heywood
A face peered. All the grey night In chaos of vacancy shone; Nought but vast sorrow was there- The sweet cheat gone. View quote
Walter de la Mare
Evil will come to nought and will be completely destroyed. The divine, pure goodness will contain in itself every nature endowed with reason; nothing made by God is excluded from his kingdom once everything mixed with some elements of base material has been consumed by refinement in fire. View quote
Gregory of Nyssa
The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way. View quote
Jack Cade
But we either believe in democracy or we don't. If we do, then, we must say categorically, without qualification, that no restraint from the any democratic processes, other than by the ordinary law of the land, should be allowed... If you believe in democracy, you must believe in it unconditionally. If you believe that men should be free, then, they should have the right of free association, of free speech, of free publication. Then, no law should permit those democratic processes to be set at nought, and no excuse, whether of security, should allow a government to be deterred from doing what it knows to be right, and what it must know to be right... (Lee Kuan Yew)
It is the glory of the heritage Thy life has left, that makes thy outcast age: Thy limbs shall lie dark, tombless on this sod, Because thou shinest in man's soul, a god, Who found and gave new passion and new joy That nought but Earth's destruction can destroy. Thy gifts to give was thine of men alone: 'Twas but in giving that thou couldst atone For too much wealth amid their poverty. View quote
George Eliot
He said within his soul, "'This is the end: O'er all the earth to where the-heavens bend And hem men's travel, I have breathed my soul: I lie here now the remnant of that whole, The embers of a life, a lonely pain; As far-off rivers to my thirst were vain, So of my mighty years nought comes to me again." View quote
George Eliot
God grant indeed thy words are not for nought! Then shalt thou save me, since for many a day To such a dreadful life I have been brought: Nor will I spare with all my heart to pay What man soever takes my grief away; Ah! I will love thee, if thou lovest me But well enough my saviour now to be. View quote
William Morris
The wanderer trembled when he saw all this, Because he deemed by magic it was wrought; Yet in his heart a longing for some bliss Whereof the hard and changing world knows nought, Arose and urged him on, and dimmed the thought That there perchance some devil lurked to slay The heedless wanderer from the light of day. View quote
William Morris
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