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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

Quote by Aristophanes about life, adventure, nothing

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about promise, wish, success, nothing, world, contentment

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about children, nothing

Nature does nothing in vain.

Quote by Aristotel about nature, nothing

There are other stories about Italians I'd like to tell that have nothing to do with Westerns.

Quote by Armand Assante about opinion, nothing

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about existence, hope, truth, nothing, face

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about sadness, past, nothing

Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about merit, nothing

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about wealth, nothing, things

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about man, nothing, world

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about doubt, nothing

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about fall, fear, hope, nothing, man

Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about name, nothing

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about fame, nothing, being, contentment, people

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about duty, nothing

I did have an Irish grandmother whom no one or nothing could put down.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell about nothing

My literary success meant nothing to me.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell about literary critic, success, nothing

Thirty wretched years were nothing but darkness and pain, and I had the urge to commit suicide and be done with it all.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell about pain, nothing

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Quote by Albert Camus about people, art, magic, heart, nothing, work, man

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Quote by Albert Camus about truth, nothing