Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Aristotle

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Aristotle

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Aristotle

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
Aristotle

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
Aristotle

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Aristotle

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Aristotle

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
Erma Bombeck

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
Erma Bombeck

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David Thoreau

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
Henry David Thoreau

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
Henry David Thoreau

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
Henry David Thoreau

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Bob Dylan

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
Lao Tzu

Ability is nothing without opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
Joseph Campbell

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
Sun Tzu