A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.
William Butler Yeats

A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.
Baroness Orczy

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
George Santayana

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.
James Beattie

Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?
Clifford D. Simak

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
Emma Goldman

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.
Paul Anka

Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?
Ada Cambridge

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.
Pierre Corneille

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
John James Audubon

I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.
Jacques Maritain

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
Robert Browning

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land.
Moshe Dayan

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
Lord Byron

To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
Alcaeus

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.
Victoria Principal

Use not big words for naught.
L. M. Heroux