Top 100 Naught's Quotes
#1. Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents' beds, unerringly I rush! Naught's an obstacle, naught's an angle to the iron way!
Herman Melville
#2. For naught so vile on the Earth doth live, but to the Earth some special good doth give
William Shakespeare
#3. Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.
Thomas Tusser
#4. All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence.
Gamaliel
#5. Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land.
Moshe Dayan
#6. Let naught trouble thee; Let naught frighten thee; All Things pass. God alone changeth not. Patience can do all things. Whoever has God, has everything. God alone sufficeth. When the
John Ortberg
#7. Are you my enemy? Are you strong, with speed and agility and the training of a warrior? It matters naught to me. Run now! Run fast into the forest! I'll give you a few moments' start - an hour, if you wish. But you will never be fast enough. I'll catch and kill you before long.
Joseph Delaney
#8. Naught is there mightier than God;
Yet hath He not the might to turn
My Will from willing what it will,
My yearning as it needs must yearn?
Angelus Silesius
#9. The suffering of his body is as naught to the joy of being free from the pain of being seen.
Helen Macdonald
#10. At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove.
James Beattie
#11. Will did not think that was fair, but he accepted that kings were often unfair and there was naught to be done about it.
Sharon Kay Penman
#12. Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
John James Audubon
#14. Despise everything that useless toil creates as an ornament and an object of beauty. And reflect that nothing except the soul is worthy of wonder; for to the soul, if it be great, naught is great."[4]
Seneca.
#15. Mirror mirror on the wall, show the real me or naught at all.
Gautama Buddha
#16. And, Father, most of all, you taught
Me there's a Pow'r in love that naught
Can thwart, and that it moves where truth
And courage speak, and neither youth
Nor age can hinder its success,
But only fear and quietness.
John Piper
#17. He may have been waiting a long while, in snow or rain, yet his joy at my final appearance knows no resentment at my faithlessness, though I have neglected him all day and brought his hopes to naught.
Thomas Mann
#19. If I were in the unenviable position of having to study my work my points of departure would be the "Naught is more real ... " and the "Ubi nihil vales ... " both already in Murphy and neither very rational.
Samuel Beckett
#20. 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 as a desperate haven for terrorized investors. But the potential to make longer-term real money is naught.
Jeremy Grantham
#21. Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet But only melancholy; O sweetest melancholy!
John Fletcher
#22. Every moment of enjoyment
Brings to some one else a sorrow,
But your sorrow gladdens no one,
For from sorrow naught but sorrow springs.
August Strindberg
#23. Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
Petrarch
#24. A weapon needs a wielder; it should not be permitted to start its own fights."
"You are not my wielder; you are naught, a forgotten ghost, not even a memory."
"Maybe, but you are still a weapon.
Angelo Tsanatelis
#25. A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
Mark Twain
#26. Fortune craves not Contentment, for it is an earthly hope, and its desires are embraced by union with objects, while Contentment is naught but heartfelt.
Kahlil Gibran
#27. 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. Until I enter Sister Serafina's workshop. It is unlike anything I have ever seen, full of strange sights and smells, and I tumble headlong into love.
R.L. LaFevers
#28. My arms wrapped about little Jala, little sister, hot with fever but the fire grew too hot, and so, in my arms, her flesh cooled to dawn-stone, mother keening - Jala was the ember now lifeless, and from that day, in mother's eyes, I became naught but its bed of ash.
Steven Erikson
#29. Of its persistent, artless strain: Naught so can soothe a soul's own pain, As making glad another soul!
Paul Verlaine
#30. FORCE, n. "Force is but might," the teacher said p/ "That definition's just."/ The boy said naught but throught instead,/ Remembering his pounded head:/ "Force is not might but must!"
Ambrose Bierce
#31. What's hard, it seems, is living up to the words spoken by Jesus Christ, who preached naught but love and mercy and justice and humility.
Steven Weber
#32. Unicorns know naught of shame, or need, or doubt, or debt;
But mortals, as you may have noticed, take what they can get.
Peter S. Beagle
#33. There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
George Gordon Byron
#35. Life's final lesson,the only truthful one buried beneath a layered skein of delusions.
Sooner or later,she now understood,we are all naught but food.Wolves or worms,the end abrupt or lingering,it matter not in the least.
Steven Erikson
#36. We are stark naught all, bad's the best of us.
Dario Fo
#37. There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.
William Shakespeare
#38. Sometime is that appointment, the final one to meet. Let's color all with love, for Time is naught but fleet.
Vanna Bonta
#39. Though it has no thought of keeping watch, it's not for naught that the scarecrow stands in the grain field.
Dogen
#40. How some dare scorn (as if a fabulous lie) that they should rise whom death to dust doth bind
and like to beasts, a beastly life they lead, who naught attend save death when they are dead.
William Alexander, 1st Earl Of Stirling
#41. Once it's no longer accepted that something is wrong, all the laws in the world will avail you naught. The law functions as a formal embodiment of a moral code, not as a free-standing substitute for it.
Mark Steyn
#42. I said: 'A line will take us hours maybe;
Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought,
Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
W.B.Yeats
#43. 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
#44. There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls on 'em.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#46. Travelers with naught sing in the robber's face
Juvenal
#47. Here he produced two immense folded packets, which appeared each to contain a whole ream of closely written manuscript. They had been the labour of the worthy man's whole life; and never were labour and zeal more absurdly wasted.
Walter Scott
#48. Shameless, impudent, meddling females, who presumed to set at naught the Society's prohibition on women's magic, and duped the common people with their potions and cantrips!
Zen Cho
#49. I think anybody who has had a long relationship and has had a really hard time letting go, wants to feel like it's not all for naught, and it's meaningful, because it makes you who you are.
Rashida Jones
#50. Live. Live, brothers, though there be naught but shame and failure to furnish forth your living.
John Updike
#51. Those vestiges of natures left behind
Which reason cannot quite expel from us
Are still so slight that naught prevents a man
From living a life even worthy of the gods.
Lucretius
#53. Only your hearts be frolic, for the time Craves that we taste of naught but jouissance.
Robert Greene
#54. The Infinite keeps naught save Love, for it is in its own likeness.
Kahlil Gibran
#55. Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#56. Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.
George Eliot
#57. God has created me to do some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good; I shall do His work.
John Henry Newman
#58. If she tried to speak, it would all come out: Her pain, her fear. Her anger. Her tears. And then her efforts to be strong for the boy would have been for naught. So she kept it in, a dam against a raging river.
James Dashner
#59. Knowledge, understanding, and wisdom is naught to the man who is incapable of applying it.
Joshua Romqn
#60. Time fleeth on,
Youth soon is gone,
Naught earthly may abide;
Life seemeth fast,
But may not last
It runs as runs the time.
Charles Godfrey Leland
#61. Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.
Charles Studd
#62. None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.
Edith Hamilton
#63. Thousands of hopeful days came to naught before this one. This was a golden day. Never give up.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#64. Goats are naught but bones and bleating, and their hair was not warm nor their bodies soft. Of course, there was the smell, too, bitter as overripe vinegar, intrusive as bile.
Nancy E. Turner
#65. The past is all patterns, and those patterns remain beneath our feet, even as the stars above reveal their own patterns - for the stars we gaze upon each night are naught but an illusion from the past.
Steven Erikson
#66. Manassa naught,
a padded white envelope
with no return address,
landlocked and antiseptic,
exploited like a gas station.
Beauty
passes through in the briefest of cameos.
Brian D'Ambrosio
#67. True kinship has naught to do with blood ties, however strong they be. I think we are all kin, brothers and sisters one to the other, all children of all parents.
Lloyd Alexander
#68. Women are angels, wooing:
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing:
That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this
Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.
William Shakespeare
#69. You do not see the painting in the attic
The maggots on skin that tear.
The beauty is a trick.
Narcissus - promise naught but air...' ~ Dorian Gray
Stella Coulson
#70. Have you not heard it said full oft,
A woman's nay doth stand for naught?
William Shakespeare
#71. To be exact has naught to do with pedantry or dogma.
Leonora Speyer
#72. Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.
William Blake
#73. She wanted to buckle, lie on her side and gasp like an eviscerated fish. She held her breath against it, but her mouth parted. She cared naught for living in the moment, but apparently her body was sensible. It wanted to breathe.
Julie Anne Long
#74. Ah?" he said, vaguely. "No, I dinna think so. Still," he said with a smile, pulling his attention suddenly back to her, "I wouldna be likely to. A young burke of sixteen's too taken up wi' his own grand self to pay much heed to what he thinks are naught but a rabble of snot-nosed bairns.
Diana Gabaldon
#75. I have not hesitated to call the system of Government under which we are labouring 'satanic' and I withdraw naught out of it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#76. She comes to naught, my dear one, she comes to naught, all that there business. What the hell, maybe twice in your life you have yourself a whore of a good time, and then you spend every night of the rest of your life trying to get that good time back. But she comes to naught.
Lynn Coady
#77. In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love.
Baha'u'llah
#78. Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Thomas Haynes Bayly
#79. Alys told her that it was the way of women, to tote a newborn and then adjust as it grew until by the time the child was plump and heavy, the weight seemed naught.
Lois Lowry
#80. There scotsmen must have arses like leather,for while he ate I could see naught beneath his kilts but a pair of rather large balls , the secretary told him . - philippa
Bertrice Small
#81. O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
James Russell Lowell
#82. Man's works do not even come close to the works of the Holy Spirit. If the Holy Spirit does not work, all the efforts of man will come to naught.
John Sung
#83. Accustom yourself to unreasonableness and injustice. Abide in peace in the presence of God Who sees all these evils more clearly than you do, and Who permits them. Be content with doing with calmness the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were naught.
Francois Fenelon
#84. Notice those gorgeous homes that represent happiness, glory and domination; they are naught but caverns of misery and distress.
Kahlil Gibran
#85. She knew she'd wounded him when he'd least expected it, and her satisfaction lasted until the door had closed behind him. Once he was gone, it ebbed away along with her anger, leaving her with naught but the ashes and embers of a dying hearth fire.
Sharon Kay Penman
#86. Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?
Clifford D. Simak
#87. Cease these sweet words," I protested. "You seek to bend me to your will, but it will not work. Your flattery is naught to me but wind!
Patrick Rothfuss
#88. I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#89. My mother used to always say to me, 'Do naught, get naught.' It's an adage that I hold by. If you don't do anything, you can't really expect anything.
Peter Hook
#90. In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.
Sophie Swetchine
#91. I dinna think tis romantic when a man says he's willin' t' give his life fer the woman he loves. Give me instead a man who'd fight to keep us both alive and kickin'! There's naught rommantic about a dead man, beau or no.
Karen Hawkins
#92. For what is a man, what has he got. If not himself, then he has naught.
Frank Sinatra
#94. Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till by broad spreading, it disperses to naught.
William Shakespeare
#95. He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught.
Torquato Tasso
#96. You are! There ain't no Thirteenth! Ain't naught but the Twelve, that's truth! Yeah, I been to Verrar a couple times, met up with lads and lasses
Scott Lynch
#98. Enough. Sudden enough. Sudden all far. No move and sudden all far. All least. Three pins. One pinhole. In dimmost dim. Vasts apart. At bounds of boundless void. Whence no farther. Best worse no farther. Nohow less. Nohow worse. Nohow naught. Nohow on.
Samuel Beckett
#99. Happiness is not to be found at the bottom of a bottle or from the tip of a needle; it is not to be found amidst a cloud of smoke or within a sugar-coated pill. If you look for it in these places, you will find naught but despair.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#100. Virtue can have naught to do with ease ... It craves a steep and thorny path.
Michel De Montaigne
