There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is usually made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.
To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.
Sometimes one pays most for things one gets for nothing.
Saying nothing, sometimes says the Most.
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.
Nothing shakes my opinion of a book. Nothing-nothing. Only perhaps if it’s the book of a young person-or of a friend-no, even so, I think myself infallible.
Nothing is that which fills no space.
Nothing is so much to be feared as Evil Report.
No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.