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| Blessed be nothing. (Exclamation of a housewife on cleaning day.) | 1 |
| Blessed be nothing when the tax-gatherer comes around. | 2 |
| Better aught than naught. Italian, German. | 3 |
| Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall not be disappointed. Pope. | 4 |
| From nothing nothing can come. French. | 5 |
| He goes safely who has nothing. French. | 6 |
| He has nothing for whom nothing is enough. French, Portuguese. | 7 |
| He that has nothing is frightened at nothing. | 8 |
| He that has nothing to spare must not keep a dog. | 9 |
| He who has nothing fears nothing. French. | 10 |
| Naught is never in danger. | 11 |
| No one so liberal as he who has nothing to give. French. | 12 |
| None have all and none have nothing. German. | 13 |
| Nothing can come of nothing. (Ex nihilo nihil fit.) | 14 |
| Nothing have, nothing crave. | 15 |
| Nothing happens for nothing. French. | 16 |
| Nothing is a footless stocking without a leg. | 17 |
| Nothing is had for nothing. French. | 18 |
| Of nothing comes nothing. | 19 |
| Soon rich, soon poor,—soon nothing. German. | 20 |
| To have nothing is to have rich eyes and poor hands. Shakespeare. | 21 |
| When nought comes to aught, it does not know itself. Dutch. | 22 |
| Who nothing have shall nothing save. | 23 |
| Where nothing is, a little doth ease. | 24 |
| Where nothing is, nothing can be had. | 25 |
| Where nothing is to be had the king must lose his right. | 26 |
| Who has nothing fears nothing. Italian, Spanish. | 27 |
| Who has nothing is nothing. Italian. | 28 |
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