“Life is nothing if you're not obsessed.”
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)
Original: (la) Nil sine magno
vita labore dedit mortalibus.
Book I, satire ix, line 59
“Life is nothing without friendship.”
“Life is nothing without a good sense of humor.”
Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)
“Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.”
Part 1, Chapter 23.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Contarini Fleming (1832)
“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War (1898), Chapter X.
Early career years (1898–1929)
Variant: There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at with no result.
“Life is doubt,
And faith without doubt is nothing but death.”
“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.”
Nil sine magno
vita labore dedit mortalibus.
Book I, satire ix, line 59
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)
