It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
Joseph Stalin

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
Saint Augustine

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.
Emily Dickinson

A witty saying proves nothing.
Voltaire

The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.
Voltaire

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
Voltaire

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
Voltaire

Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Voltaire

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Voltaire

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
Voltaire

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Voltaire

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
Voltaire

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
Voltaire

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
Voltaire

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
William Osler

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
William Osler

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
Alexander the Great

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
Steve Martin

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Franklin D. Roosevelt