Nothing comes from nothing, and it goes from nothing. ——The ancient Roman philosopher Lucretius

There are some scholar-bureaucrats in China who always like to make things out of nothing and create stories out of thin air. They not only praise their lives, but also whitewash the darkness. ——Lu Xun, a modern Chinese writer and political commentator, is famous for making something out of nothing

You can’t make something out of nothing, and water cannot flow from a seamless stone. Whoever cannot burn can only smoke - this is the theorem. Long live the fire of life. ——Former Soviet writer Ostrovsky