Another is, if you take money out of your left pocket and put it in your right pocket, you're no richer.
I have no illusions about running. I hate running. If I could feel as good as I felt at 30 without running, I wouldn't do it, but that's not the way it works! So - no pain, no gain.
They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes
Don't think I'd really want to be a mortician. Wouldn't be getting much back.
Nothing from nothing leaves nothing.
The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.
There is no cash in battling evil: just the opposite in my experience
Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'.
If no pain, then no love. If no darkness, no light. If no risk, then no reward. It's all or nothing. In this damn world, it's all or nothing.