
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Circles
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Circles
“What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.”
“Nothing justifies profanity.”
A wounded Jackson said to Captain John Imboden, after First Manassas (The Oxford Dictionary of Civil War Quotations, 2006)
“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.”
“For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture.”
Omnium autem rerum, ex quibus aliquid adquiritur, nihil est agri cultura melius, nihil uberius, nihil dulcius, nihil homine libero dignius.
Book I, section 42. Translation by Cyrus R. Edmonds (1873), p. 73
De Officiis – On Duties (44 BC)
“For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and, again, nothing worse than a bad one.”
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 702.
“Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.”
"Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir" (1978) by Martha Gellhorn.
Source: Travels With Myself and Another
“There's nothing better than cake but more cake.”