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Your Quotes for 16 January 2006 - Nothing

Prohibition started on this day in 1920, but I've used that as the theme for this day every year and I just don't have enough good quotes to do it again this year. Long-time readers know that I don't devote much space to the more frivolous holidays on the calendar, although I never miss National Drum Month. I'm not alone, in 1973, newspaperman Harold Pullman Coffin was so fed up with all the appreciation days that he created National Nothing Day, "to provide Americans with one national day when they can just sit without celebrating, observing or honoring anything." As we honored Dr King yesterday, I'm giving the execrable Volstead Act a pass this year, and there's almost nothing else on the calendar, this year we're celebrating National Nothing Day.

Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.
     - Adolph Monod, 1802 - 1856

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
     - Alice Walker

When, like me, one has nothing in oneself one hopes for everything from another.
     - Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette, 1873 - 1954

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
     - Frank Zappa, 1940 - 1993

Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing.... Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not.
     - Lao Tze

There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.
     - Frank A. Clark

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