Nothing will come of nothing

But for the time being, it appears that nothing will come of nothing.

������ it does do is convey the belief that nothing will come of nothing, as another tyrant out of Shakespeare, King Lear, observed — that stasis breeds only more stasis.

Nothing, stasis … Nothing will come of nothing … The tiger's free, the kangaroo, I'm an ape man … War, psychiatry, a nihilistic, autodidactic mess of rotting corpses … He'd said that already, but sometimes it bore repeating just to defray the onanism.

“Nothing will come of nothing,” Shakespeare’s Lear darkly warns Cordelia in the opening scene.

"Nothing will come of nothing" is an axiom of art history, and the notion that Impressionism was a matter of innocent eyes doing sunlight with broken touches without "academic" preconceptions is strictly for the birds in the sunlit trees.