No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.
Alfred E. Smith

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
Benjamin Whichcote

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.
Ellen Goodman

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
Democritus

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.
Hilaire Belloc

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
David Viscott

Of this they drank half a pint every day, and sometimes more or less, as it operated, by way of gentle physic. Two others had each two oranges and one lemon given them every day. These they ate with greediness, at different times, upon an empty stomach.
James Lind

On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square.
Erich Maria Remarque

One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
H. Rap Brown

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
Pam Brown

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Eric Hoffer

People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.
Anna Friel

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
Imre Lakatos

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
Iris Murdoch

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.
Mary Oliver

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.
John Buchan

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
Dwight L. Moody

Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?
Richard Brautigan

Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.
Arthur Koestler

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
Martin Farquhar Tupper