Top 171 Naught Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated on November 23, 2024.
A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
Travelers with naught sing in the robber's face
To be exact has naught to do with pedantry or dogma. — © Leonora Speyer
To be exact has naught to do with pedantry or dogma.
Naught is too small and soft to turn and sting.
Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
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.
In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love.
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.
Oh, the morrow of pain and dole Is naught while the sunlight lingers.
Far must thy researches go Wouldst thou learn the world to know; Thou must tempt the dark abyss Wouldst thou prove what Being is; Naught but firmness gains the prize, Naught but fullness makes us wise, Buried deep truth e'er lies.
Though it has no thought of keeping watch, it's not for naught that the scarecrow stands in the grain field. — © Dogen
Though it has no thought of keeping watch, it's not for naught that the scarecrow stands in the grain field.
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Sometime is that appointment, the final one to meet. Let's color all with love, for Time is naught but fleet.
All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.
Only your hearts be frolic, for the time Craves that we taste of naught but jouissance.
O, there is naught on earth worth being known but God and our own souls!
Races, better than we, have leaned on her wavering promise, Having naught else but Hope.
Lingering labors come to naught.
Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.
For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.
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!
In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.
That which is alive hath known death, and that which is dead can never die, for in the Circle of the Spirit life is naught and death is naught. Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.
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.
Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart
Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught.
All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
We are stark naught all, bad's the best of us.
Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?
I know they are naught things, but I devour novels.” (p. 57).
If I cannot rest and relax, all the work I do is for naught.
If we lose our heritage of health and vigor, all the beauty that has been achieved will be for naught!
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers. — © William Shakespeare
There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.
Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure.
Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.
When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will.
All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence.
I have not hesitated to call the system of Government under which we are labouring 'satanic' and I withdraw naught out of it.
I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.
Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.
Have you not heard it said full oft,
A woman's nay doth stand for naught? — © William Shakespeare
Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught?
Words are naught but wind, and the fairest promises like dreams that take flight with the morning.
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.
O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
He that enjoys naught without thanksgiving is as though he robbed God.
There is naught a man or woman can not learn who hath the wit.
Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.
Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.
Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t.
For what is a man, what has he got. If not himself, then he has naught.
He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught.
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