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Michel de Montaigne Quotes and Sayings
Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Wisdom Myth Religion Belief Mind Tradition Faith

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
- Michel de Montaigne

I do myself a greater injury in lying
than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
- Michel de Montaigne

Nothing Quotes and Sayings

Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant

If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo

Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus

Stress is nothing more than a
socially acceptable form of mental illness.
- Richard Carlson

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing.
None is excluded, but excludes himself.
You have only to push aside the curtain.
- Henry David Thoreau

I didn't make it all the way through third grade for nothing.
- the movie The Rescuers Down Under

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness
of the woods before sunrise.
- George Washington Carver

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain

He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields

Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say,
abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot

I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
- George Carlin

Gossip is the art of saying nothing
in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
- Walter Winchell

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists?
In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
- Woody Allen

The third certainty of life, after death and taxes,
is that nothing will work out the way you want.
Life is fully as bad as you think it is.
Choose to live joyfully anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter
quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic

Always forgive your enemies -
nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask "Why me?"
Then a voice answers "Nothing personal,
your name just happened to come up. -
- Charlie Brown, in Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg

There's nothing wrong with being afraid.
We were meant to be afraid.
- the Woody Allen movie Anything Else

The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung

"Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore.
There is always something to make you wonder
in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
- Albert Schweitzer

Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Nothing is as good for the soul as a marshmallow roast.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
- Margaret Thatcher

Human subtlety will never devise an invention
more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature,
because in her inventions nothing is lacking,
and nothing is superfluous.
- Leonardo da Vinci

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

All things appear and disappear
because of the concurrence of causes and conditions.
Nothing ever exists entirely alone;
everything is in relation to everything else.
- The Buddha

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches
as to conceive how others can be in want.
- Jonathan Swift

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,
I think that is a much greater hunger,
a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
- Mother Teresa

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde

Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

It is important to expect nothing,
to take every experience,
including the negative ones,
as merely steps on the path,
and to proceed.
- Ram Dass

To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho

Few people know how to take a walk.
The qualifications are endurance,
plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature,
good humor, vast curiosity, good speech,
good silence and nothing too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
- Epictetus

All the religions of the world,
while they may differ in other respects,
unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus

Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
- Albert Einstein

War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

In the world there is nothing more
submissive and weak than water.
Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong,
nothing can surpass it.
- Lao Tzu

The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus

Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie