T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing...is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.”
“The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.”
“The foolish being who lives making even the slightest distinction between the supreme Self and his own self will always be subject to fear.”
Source: Play of Consciousness: A Spiritual Autobiography
“The foolish big boys who fight with their toys are so sadly silly.”
“The foolish experience much,
but learn little.
The wise experience little,
but learn much.”
“The foolish friend provokes the wise foe,
then moans and yells for rescue.”
“The foolish idea that my music can actually make a difference in someone's life - that right there is proof that it's working. It makes me feel great, it really does.”
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.”
Source: War and Laughter
“The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.”
“The foolish moments of the head are often the most wonderful times of the heart.”
“The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike, Meaning to make such music as shall save. Mine eyes are dim now that they see the truth, My strength is waned now that my need is most; Would that I had such help as man must have, For I shall die, whose life was all men's hope.”
Source: The Light of Asia, or the Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana): Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist)
“The foolish one shall becometh silent by the evil one which he the fool had created.”
Source: The Quote-DAH.: A Wise Choice was Surrounded by Wisdom.
“The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.”
“The foolish rush to end their lives.
Only the steadfast soul survives.”
“The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.”
“The foolish square calves pretend to be frightened of our train. Bluffers! Haven't they seen it every day since they were born? It's just an excuse to shake the joy out of their heels.”
Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr
“The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle's wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel.”
“The foolish took their lamps, but took no oil (pursued ministry as their priority over getting oil). The wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps (pursued oil as their priority before ministry). At the dark midnight hour of history, the Spirit will raise up forerunners who cry out that Jesus is coming as a Bridegroom God and that we must go out to meet Him (make the necessary effort to encounter Him). They all slept which speaks of living in context to the natural processes of life.”
“The foolish undertake a trifling act, and soon desist, discouraged; wise men engage in mighty works, and persevere.”
“The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.”
“The foolishness of chasing the moon ached my heart. I was stuck between the moon and the shore and surrounded by an empty sea.”
“The foolishness of continuing down a wrong path after you’ve already discovered it’s negative ways is called pride. Humility is doing what’s right when it’s hard and turning around when it’s wrong.”
Source: Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping
“The foolishness of faith is the winning ticket in life”
“The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.”
“The foolishness of the cross is the wisdom of God and the wisdom of God is powerful in its impact.”
“The foolishness of the politicians of that era brought on the “First World War” But it was the people that had to fight it. The trenches that the soldiers dug and the craters from the artillery are still visible to visitors. The cemeteries where the fallen are buried, show that the majority were just young men, whereas the politicians, who were to blame, had mostly white hair and did little or no fighting! To secure our future we must read and learn from history!”
“The foolishness of youth with the cynicism of age is a dangerous combination.”
“The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do.”
“The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.”
Source: Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds
“The fools of today's politics keep dividing the lands into more and more pieces, thinking that it would bring their people security, whereas the reality is, such an act only brings insecurity, as it leads to nothing but an increasing amount of conflicts. Division can’t bring peace and security, only assimilation can.”
Source: Fabric of Humanity
“The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.”
“The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game.”
“The fools that came in here brought their beach gear to a cave...go figure.”
“The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.”
“The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special trick about writing, or painting either. I wrote constantly for 15 years before I produced anything with any solidity to it.”
Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout
“The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.”
“The foot can march or it can dance, but it cannot stand still until end-stopped.”
“The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.”
“The foot feels the foot when it's touched by the ground, like the heart feels the heart when it's no longer bound.”
Source: The Reiki Teachers Guidebook
“The foot of the heavenly ladder, which we have got to mount in order to reach the higher regions, has to be fixed firmly in every-day life, so that everybody may be able to climb up it along with us. When people then find that they have got climbed up higher and higher into a marvelous, magical world, they will feel that that realm, too, belongs to their ordinary, every-day life, and is, merely, the wonderful and most glorious part thereof.”
“The foot that is familiar with the grass belongs usually to a man of lighter heart than he whose soles seldom wander from the pavement; and the best elixir vitæ is a run, as often as we can contrive it, amid the sweets of new and lovely scenery, where nature sits, fresh from the hand of the Creator, almost chiding us for our delay.”
“The footage that you're about to watch of China's dog-leather trade is one of the worst things I've ever seen.”
“The football is the worstes game, you are famous because you are okay... but after few years you become 30 or 40 who knows?!
ANd you are out of that sport, alone in the world you are not anymore famous. You are one of them, but after all who has played football knows that you should be an idiot to play that sport, good at football worst in life. But a lot of these days are like them, not like these people, but like them!?”
“The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.”
“The footing was really atrocious. I loved it. I really like Cross Country; you're one with the mud.”
“The footnote would seem to be the smallest detail in a work of history. Yet it carries a large burden of responsibility, testifying to the validity of the work, the integrity (and the humility) of the historian, and to the dignity of the discipline.”
Source: On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society
“The footpath curves right, and my home’s roof ridge is visible through the coconut fronds. A streak of happiness lights up in my heart. I know it’s just a building, but I hear its frantic call, reaching out to me like a mother cow that has lost its calf. Is this what differentiates a home from a house—the life in the former, the soul breathed in by my grandparents, my parents, and me?”
Source: Saint Richard Parker
“The footpath down to the well is healed.”
Source: A Boy's Will and North of Boston
“The footpath lights in the garden were hidden by ferns and Knock Out roses, giving the area a muted green glow, almost like being under the sea.”
Source: Other Birds: A Novel
“The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognize God, whose hand is impressed upon the entire universe.”