Nulla Quotes

#1. What is hid is unknown: for what is unknown there is no desire.
[Lat., Quod latet ignotum est; ignoti nulla cupido.]

Ovid

#2. I don't like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don't really understand the word 'irony' too much. The irony comes when you try to verbalize the absurd. When irony happens without words, it's much more exalted.

David

#3. I think people should give in to what they feel like doing at the time and be a raw animal.

Kesha

#4. I think I'm what they call a never-was.

Christopher Moore

#5. Freeze, freeze in the winter, if you really want to appreciate the summer! Walk, walk at the edge of the precipices, if you rightly want to learn the meaning of the safety! Switch the lights off, if you want to see the amazing beauty of the light!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. Love is the only thing that keeps me sane ...

Sue Townsend

#7. Then plough deep, while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.

Benjamin Franklin

#8. Trust not to outward show.
[Lat., Fronti nulla fides.]

Juvenal

#9. Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line.

Pliny The Elder

#10. Nulla dies felix - call no day fortunate till it be ended.

Ford Madox Ford

#11. If there were two doors, one labeled, Door to Happiness, and the other labeled, Committee to Study How to be Happy, most of us would attend the committee meeting.

David W. Earle

#12. Things are only worth what you make them worth.

Moliere

#13. I'll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!

Betty MacDonald

#14. Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.
[Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#15. A husband is what's left of a sweetheart after the nerve has been killed.

Lou Costello

#16. Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#17. FRONTA NULLA FIDES. Place no trust in appearances.

Amor Towles

#18. There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh. Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est

Catullus

#19. None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart.
[Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]

Tacitus

#20. Lex malla, lex nulla. A bad law is no law.

Cassandra Clare

#21. From this moment there would be no question of virtue or morality; for despotism cui ex honesto nulla est spes, wherever it prevails, admits no other master; it no sooner speaks than probity and duty lose their weight and blind obedience is the only virtue which slaves can still practice.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#22. I've never actually seen the military used to any higher moral purpose. There is always the bottom line, somewhere, somehow.

Stan Goff

#23. Don't worry. It'll all come good in the end. Always does.

Sarah Winman

#24. There's scarce a case comes on but you shall find
A woman's at the bottom.
[Lat., Nulla fere causa est in qua non femina litem moverit.]

Juvenal