I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
Henry David Thoreau

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
Henry David Thoreau

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
Kurt Cobain

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Jim Rohn

Nature does nothing in vain.
Aristotle

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
Lou Holtz

Ability is nothing without opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Will Rogers

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
Will Rogers

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
Will Rogers

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
Will Rogers

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.
Will Rogers

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
Napoleon Bonaparte

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
Ogden Nash

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
Ralph Waldo Emerson