We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
William Shakespeare

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Henry David Thoreau

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
Henry David Thoreau

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.
Henry David Thoreau

If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first.
Kurt Cobain

I won't eat anything green.
Kurt Cobain

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Jim Rohn

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Aristotle

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
W. Clement Stone

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
Lou Holtz

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Lou Holtz

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.
Will Rogers

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.
Will Rogers

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
Will Rogers

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
Will Rogers

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson