T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.”
Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes
“The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love.”
“The love of Jesus Christ covers your sins, and it also gives you the power to let other people off the hook. You've been forgiven, and you can forgive others.”
“The love of Jesus is at once avid and generous. All that He has, all that He is, He gives; all that we are, all that we have, He takes.”
“The love of Jesus is the source of salvation. He loves, he looks, he touches us, we live.”
Source: Morning and Evening
“The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that they should have pleaded it so long in vain.”
Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson
“The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.”
Source: Out of the Silent Planet
“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books”
“The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.”
Source: Men and manners: sketches and essays
“The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.”
“The love of liberty is a common blood that flows in our American veins.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1980-1981
“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.”
“The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life.”
“The love of liberty was the ruling passion of these Germans; the enjoyment of it, their best treasure; the word that expressed that enjoyment the most pleasing to their ear. They deserved, they assumed, they maintained the honourable epithet of Franks or Freemen; which concealed, though it did not extinguish, the peculiar names of the several states of the confederacy.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.”
Source: Poetical Works: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes
“The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.”
Source: The Library at Night
“The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking”
“The love of life is the root of all good.”
“The love of life, at any and every level of development, is the religious impulse.”
Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience
“The love of light is foundation for good life.”
“The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and heart showing themselves in the minute, strange, and unexpected combinations of letters and words, in the blackest and coldest print—the love which he had hidden as if it were illicit and dangerous, he began to display, tentatively at first, and then boldly, and then proudly.”
Source: Stoner: A Novel
“The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.”
Source: The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke
“The love of man to woman is a thing common and of course, and at first partakes more of instinct and passion than of choice; but true friendship between man and man is infinite and immortal.
–Plato-”
“The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“The love of money as a possession-as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life-will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease”
“The love of money as a possession...will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.”
Source: The Essential Keynes
“The love of money grows as the money itself grows.”
“The love of money is the root of all evil, therefore selfishness must be the seed.”
“The love of money is the root of all evil. That is the fundamental truth that I have verified through 3 decades of empirical, investigative, legal, academic research trying to answer some fundamental questions about human existence and why we behave the way we do, why we think the way we do, why we act the way we do...It is the love of money that has the potential to exterminate- to render extinct- the entire human race.”
“The love of money is the source of an enormous amount of good; the fact that the good is a by-product of the selfish pursuit of riches has nothing to do with its indisputable value.”
“The love of money, not money, is root of all evil.”
Source: The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness
“The love of my life wants to die.
That’s a tragic thing to say out loud. No. Maybe not tragic. Maybe just
unfair.”
Source: I Fell in Love With Hope
“The love of nature begins with the love for God”
“The love of nature is a passion for those in whom it once lodges. It can never be quenched. It cannot change. It is a furious, burning, physical greed, as well as a state of mystical exaltation. It will have its own.”
“The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.”
Source: The genius of haiku: readings from R.H. Blyth on poetry, life, and Zen
“The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.”
Source: The Country Doctor: Works of Balzac
“The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less.”
“The love of old things is a way of respecting time.”
Source: The Stolen Bicycle
“The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.”
“The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?”
“The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man.”
“The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.”
Source: Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
“The love of only one man or one woman is an enclosure.”
“The love of our eternal parents, Earth Mother and Sky Father, is all-embracing and will continue to provide for us, but only if we respect the earth, the sky, and the waters that mediate between them. We need to harness our science and technology to protect the domains of Papa and Wakea, not desecrate them.”
“The love of our Lord Jesus Christ towards sinners is strikingly shown in His steady purpose of heart to die for them.”
Source: Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke
“The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.”
“The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?”
Source: Waiting for God
“The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self.”
Source: God's Words to His Children: Sermons Spoken and Unspoken
“The love of our own language, what is it, in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction?”
Source: On the English Language: Past and Present
“The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.”
Source: John Henry Newman: Spiritual Writings