Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
Sigmund Freud

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da Vinci

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Leonardo da Vinci

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Walt Whitman

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Walt Whitman

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
Walt Whitman

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
Walt Whitman

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
Walt Whitman

Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Walt Whitman

Science is nothing but perception.
Plato

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
Plato

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
Plato

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
Plato

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
Hunter S. Thompson

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
Ansel Adams

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Jonathan Swift

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
Jonathan Swift

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
Jonathan Swift

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
Jonathan Swift

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
Jonathan Swift