Quotes 2921 till 2940 of 5914.
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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.
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Nothing in the world is single. All things by al law divine in one another's being mingle. Why not I with thine?
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Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.
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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
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Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
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Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Original:Le bon sense est la chose du monde la mieux partagée, car chacun pense en être bien pourvu.
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Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
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Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful - just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.
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Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
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Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.
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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
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Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
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Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
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