William Saroyan

“I care so much about everything that I care about nothing”. –William Saroyan

Louis Armstrong

“Making money ain’t nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat, and when you die you’re just as graveyard dead as he is”. –Louis Armstrong

Nero

“Hidden talent counts for nothing”. –Nero

George Saintsbury

“Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it”. –George Saintsbury

Nicolas Chamfort

“I once read that there’s nothing worse for everyone concerned than a reign that’s lasted too long. I’ve also heard that God is eternal”. –Nicolas Chamfort

Yukio Mishima

“My knowledge that I am masquerading as a normal person has even corroded whatever of normality I originally possessed, ending by making me tell myself over and over again that it too was nothing but a pretense of normality”. –Yukio Mishima

John Stuart Mill

“A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself”. –John Stuart Mill

Mark Twain

“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot”. –Mark Twain

Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I just have a hunch that Stalin is not that kind of man. Harry says he’s not and that he doesn’t want anything except security for his own country, and I think that if I give him everything I possibly can and ask for nothing in return, noblesse oblige, he won’t try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of democracy and peace”. –Franklin D. Roosevelt

Redd Foxx

“Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing”. –Redd Foxx

Benito Mussolini

“Race! It is a feeling, not a reality… Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today. Amusingly enough, not one of those who have proclaimed the ‘nobility’ of the Teutonic race was himself a Teuton. Gobineau was a Frenchman, Houston Chamberlain, an Englishman; Woltmann, a Jew; Lapouge, another Frenchman”. –Benito Mussolini

Claudius

“No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing”. –Claudius

Edward Heath

“A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing”. –Edward Heath

Hoyt Axton

“You know I smoked a lot of grass, And I popped a couple pills, But I never touched nothing that could break my will”. –Hoyt Axton

Paul Brown

“When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less”. –Paul Brown

John Pearson

“Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition”. –John Pearson

John Keats

“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced – Even a proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it”. — John Keats

Niccolo Machiavelli

“It ought be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things”. –Niccolo Machiavelli

Chauncey Wright

“We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them”. –Chauncey Wright

Thomas Jefferson

“A democracy is nothing more than mob-rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine”. –Thomas Jefferson

George S. Patton

“Better to fight for something than live for nothing”. –George S. Patton

Boris Marshalov

“Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, and then everybody disagrees”. –Boris Marshalov