Top 38 Nihil Quotes
#1. I no longer drink nearly as much as I used to but, still, my motto is Sine coffea nihil sum. Without coffee, I'm nothing.
Sarah Vowell
#2. Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.
[Lat., Tardo amico nihil est quidquam iniquius.]
Plautus
#3. There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.
[Lat., Nihil est quod credere de se
Non possit, quum laudatur dis aequa potestas.]
Juvenal
#4. Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-"nothing human is alien to me," the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and cosmopolitan "magnanimity."
Kenny Smith
#5. Nothing is so high and above all danger that is not below and in the power of God.
[Lat., Nihil ita sublime est, supraque pericula tendit
Non sit ut inferius suppositumque deo.]
Ovid
#6. I still believe, though. In existing. In ex nihilo nihil fit. If nothing comes from nothing, we cannot return to it. Ergo life has a reason and needs to be.
Lavie Tidhar
#7. To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
Martial
#8. Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it.
[Lat., Nihil tam alte natura constituit quo virtus non possit eniti.]
Quintus Curtius Rufus
#9. I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method.
[Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#10. A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
[Lat., Vulgus ignavum et nihil ultra verba ausurum.]
Tacitus
#11. Scio me nihil scire" - I know that I know nothing
Socrates
#12. In my stunted career as a scholar, I'd read promissory notes, papal bulls and guidelines for Inquisitorial interrogation. Dante, too. Boccaccio ... But after 1400? Nihil.
Cathleen Schine
#13. I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead.
[Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#15. [My] rheumatism has come in again"
Ivan, cynically, "The devil have rheumatism!"
"Why not, if I sometimes put on fleshly form? I put on fleshly form and I take the consequences. Satan sum et nihil humanum a me alienum puto."*
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#16. Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur.
If any man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.
Horace
#17. The sick mind can not bear anything harsh.
[Lat., Mensque pati durum sustinet aegra nihil.]
Ovid
#18. Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non aequus animus solatium inveniat.
There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.
Seneca The Younger
#19. In a sane world I should be a great man; as things are, in this curious establishment, I am nothing at all; to all intents and purposes I don't exist. I am just a Vox et preaterea nihil.
Aldous Huxley
#20. Ab honesto virum bonum nihil deterret. (Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honorable.)-A Wrinkle in Time
Seneca.
#21. Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit. 'Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.
Neil Gaiman
#22. Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est.
The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
Seneca The Younger
#23. Nihil humanum a me alienum puto, said the Roman poet Terence: 'Nothing human is alien to me.' The slogan of the old Immigration and Naturalization Service could have been the reverse: To us, no aliens are human.
Christopher Hitchens
#24. Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace.
[Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#25. Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.
I am human, and think nothing human alien to me.
Terence
#26. 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
#27. Learning many things does not teach understanding
Heraclitus
#28. He who teaches you how to plant has given you more than he who has given you a hundred roses.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#30. I'VE never seen such a look of mortal agony on a human face before. She screamed quite a bit before she died, and the last shriek was forever frozen on her face.
Robert Bloch
#31. There's a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milkshake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner.
David Lynch
#32. It's this patronizing thing that people have about if you're against the war everyone's lumped together. You know, the soldiers are not scholars, they're not war experts.
Richard Belzer
#33. Syn let out a tired breath. I'd never hit you, Cruel. I only fantasize about strangling you.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#34. How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die?
Napoleon Bonaparte
#35. I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
Mandy Moore
#36. You are a person of destiny. You are not here by accident. There is no obstacle too big, no dream you can't accomplish.
Joel Osteen
#37. And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission.
Robert Rauschenberg
#38. I think the best comedy is tragicomic. Yeah, I suppose if you were to look at everything I've done, there is a bit of a black streak through all of it. It's not deliberate: it's what makes me laugh, and there's a fine tradition of it, especially in Ireland.
Sharon Horgan
