Naught Quotes

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove.

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.

Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land.

A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.

For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?

I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.

Men and women have served and died to protect American democracy, but their sacrifice will be for naught if that democracy dies from the poison the Supreme Court has injected into our political organs.

Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.