“He said nothing: seldom do those who are silent make mistakes.”
Neil Gaiman (1960) English fantasy writer
Source: Norse Mythology (2017), Chapter 4, “Mimir’s Head and Odin’s Eye” (p. 45)
“The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
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“The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.”
Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695) French poet, fabulist and writer.
Les délicats sont malheureux:
Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.
Book II (1668), fable 1.
Fables (1668–1679)
John Maynard Keynes book Essays in Persuasion
Source: Essays in Persuasion (1931), The End of Laissez-faire (1926), Ch. 1
“Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?”
The Prologue, line 17.
Andria (The Lady of Andros)
“Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.”
Hanif Kureishi (1954) English playwright, screenwriter, novelist
Source: Intimacy: das Buch zum Film von Patrice Chéreau
“Unfortunately, we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Bones
Hodge and Clary, pg. 75
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
Context: "Is there anything I could get for you?" he asked. "Something to drink? Some tea?"
"I don't want tea," said Clary, with a muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want to kill them."
"Unfortunately," said Hodge, "we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing."
“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
Nelson DeMille (1943) American writer
Variant: The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished.
