What is the meaning of the phrase "much ado about nothing"?
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a Shakespearean play - lots of fuss about what turns out to be unnecessary effort
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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival."\n- C. S. Lewis
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From Shakespeare:\n\nA thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.\n\nBeggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny.
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The closest I could think to put it to was 'Without blood there is no pain' which would be 'Sine sanguis est non dolor.' I'll check it out and revise this soon. Hope that helps.
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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.\n\n☻While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.\n\n☻I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.\n\n☻I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.\n\n☻Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.\n\n☻I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am\n\n☻All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.\n\n☻Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.\n\n☻Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.\n\n☻The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love\n\n☻Love is the beauty of the soul.\n\n☻Can miles truly separate you from friends...? If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?\n\n☻What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.\n\n\nHere are some gunny quotes…\n\n☻Maturity is knowing when and where to be immature\n\n☻All of my friends and I are crazy. Hats what keeps us sane!\n\n☻if Barbie is so popular....then why do you have 2 buy her friends?\n\n☻I intend to live forever- so far so good\n\n☻Some say the glass is half empty, some say the glass is half full, I say "are you going to drink that?"\n\n☻Iv got 2 sit down & work out where i stand!!!\n\n☻When u smile the world smiles with you .when your down people will rally behind you .but when you fart you are alone because people will never stand by you!\n\n\n\n☻people ask me if id prefer 2 go 2 hell or heaven I say hell because it’s nice and warm down there\n\n☻I’m a nobody... Nobody’s perfect... Therefore IM PERFECT!!!\n\n☻I didn’t kiss your boyfriend! I told his lips a secret!! \n\n☻I would stop eating chocolate... But I'm not a quitter!\n\n☻I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.\n\n☻What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?\n\n☻Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons\n\n☻Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.\n\n☻The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.\n\n☻It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.\n\n☻I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.\n\n☻Weather forecast for tonight: dark\n\n☻What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?\n\n☻A word to the wise isn’t necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.\n\n\n\n\nIf you want to read more contact me…
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It means Aboslutely Nothing.
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In its simplest form it means what you don't know won't hurt you.\nIt's from Thomas Gray's 1742 poem, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" and the full quote is:\nWhere ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.
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This is a slight modification of a quote by Clemenceau (not Churchill, to whom it has been wrongly attributed).  It is a catchy phrase, of course, and that explains its popularity, but as for its substance, it isn't ungenerous to say that the quote is both heartless and brainless itself.  It is heartless in that it is offensive to both young people who oppose socialism and to old ones who redeem it.  It is brainless in that, in its simplicity, it contends that a significant contingent of renowned scientists (who are indeed disproportionately liberal and somewhat socialst) are brainless.  (To claim that Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein were brainless is indeed brainless in itself.)
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That is kind of a tricky little quote. Sometimes placing it in context can help. This is a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Self Reliance," which discourages basing one's opinions and actions on common opinion in favor of self-trust (see the full essay at http://www.emersoncentral.com/selfreliance.htm). \nI think the point of this quote is that it's very desireable to have one's own original thoughts and opinions, and to live by them.  It's easier to live by one's own convictions and not be persuaded by others when in isolation (that's the "independence of solitude"). However, not so special to isolate oneself from others in order to attain this ideal. Because it's difficult to live by one's own thoughts and opinions while being a part of society, it's something only a "finished man" can truly do. Also, in the essay, Emerson refers to being childlike - unselfish, non-judgmental, open-minded, uncynical, unhesitant - as something to admire. So I think that's where the seemingly misplaced "perfect sweetness" comes in. When a man can remain pure of heart while living in the harsh world and also keeping and living by his own ideals. \nWhat do you think?
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almost nothing...just its history...
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Stuff is just stuff.\n\nTurn your eyes upon Jesus\nLook full, in his wonderful face\nAnd the things of earth will grow strangely dim\nIn the light of his glory and grace
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To me it means there are few absolutes in life, and "empty" is the most completely absolute. Anything more than empty would be an infinitely debatable measurement. There are no degrees of empty. Other absolutes I can think of are "never" and "always" (which happen to be words I've learned to not use during an argument with my husband).
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Excuses mean nothing (explain nothing.) Excuses, excuses. \nA bridge to nowhere.\nIgnorance of the law is no excuse. \n\nThese are considered proverbs or popular sayings, their origin going back centuries. They are used to illustrate a point. A bridge to nowhere would be used for something that is futile, in other words, why would someone go to the trouble to build a bridge to nowhere?
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You mean adulation. It means flattery.\n\nAnd from the American Heritage dictionary: excessive flattery or admiration.
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It's an expression of the whole thesis of the poem -- "Thou still-unravished bride of quietness," etc.  Throughout the "Ode," Keats asserts that it's the imagination, not our expression of it, that is the most powerful.  (And of course, the irony is that this is one of the greatest expressions of imagination ever put to words.)\n\nThe idea is that a "heard melody" -- that is, music you hear -- may be sweet, but an "unheard melody" -- music you only imagine -- can be as sweet as your imagination wills it to be.  Keats took the notion from the paintings on a piece of Greek pottery, the figure of a man playing a syrinx (pipes of Pan) to a woman; because it's just an image of someone playing music, you can't hear what he was playing, but you can IMAGINE it to be as beautiful as you wish.\n\nThe middle and later portion of the "Ode" deals with another classical theme, that life is short and art endures -- the figures on the urn are "forever panting and forever young," while passion among the living leaves one with a heart "high-sorrowful and cloyed."  (To cloy, if it's an unfamiliar word, means to consume too much of something sweet, and by extension to have too much of any pleasure.)\n\nOne other phrase that gives modern readers fits:\n\n"O Attic shape! Fair attitude! With brede\nOf marble men and maidens overwrought..."\n\nIn this case, "Attic" is an ancient name for Greece; "attitude" doesn't refer to copping a 'tude, but to the angle and posture of the urn itself; "brede" is an old word for an embroidered pattern such as one might see on a tapestry; and "overwrought" in this case doesn't mean emotionally overwrought, but rather that the urn itself has been overlaid with a pattern, like a tapestry, of marble men and maidens.  \n\nFor my money, the key line in the poem, though, is:\n\n"...in midst of other woe/Than ours..."\n\nThat captures the ability shared by all great art -- music, literature, drama, sculpture, painting -- to pull me out of whatever funk I'm in at the moment, whatever piddling, temporary example of the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to that I am suffering, and remind me, as Keats says, that\n\n"Beauty is truth, truth beauty: that is all\nYe know on earth, and all ye need to know."\n\nThanks for asking. :-)
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Literally: "I fear the man of one (single) book."\nAnd since he was generally a fairly shrewd fellow, I'd interpret it as being afraid of a very single minded person, which everybody should be.
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was it “Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.” ?\nIf not there are loads more on here http://en.thinkexist.com/quotation/Kind_words_do_not_cost_much-Yet_they_accomplish/146158.html