T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.”
Source: The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
“The man inside of woman ties a knot so that they will never again be separate.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“The man irritated her just like a rash.”
Source: Honor's Splendour
“The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the journalist's air of being a specialist in everything, of taking in all points of view and being always on the side of the angels: he merely annoys a reader who has the least experience of knowing things, of what knowing is like. There is not two pence worth of real thought or real nobility in him. But he isn't dull.”
“The man is a monster. The worst I have ever seen, in fact, since I last looked in the mirror. The truth? I am rotting too. I am buried alive, and already rotting. If I was not such a coward I would kill myself, but I am, and so I must content myself with killing others in the hope that one day, if I can only wade deep enough in blood, I will come out clean.”
“The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.”
“The man is always the last to know when Cupid has struck him -Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress”
“The man is an arrogant, growling, genetically blessed bastard. Someone should knock him down a peg or two.”
Source: The Liar's Crown
“The man is angry, the man
Is destructive, the man wants more.
The woman is more, the woman is all.”
Source: Straight James/Gay James
“The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.”
“The man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad.”
“The man is either crazy or he is a poet.”
“The man is either mad or his is making verses.
[Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.]”
“The man is free who is protected from injury.”
“The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.”
Source: Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts
“The man is in his work,read it if you want to know about him.”
Source: The Last Cigarette: The Collected Poems Of R.M. Engelhardt 1989-2006
“The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.”
“The man is not a man until he knows that he can.”
“The man is not a provider [...] but a scarecrow for other men.”
Source: 7000 years: ...of patriarchy. Until the radical era
“The man is not wholly evil – he has a Thesaurus in his cabin.” (Captain Hook as described by J. M. Barrie in Peter Pan)”
“The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.”
Source: The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.”
“The man is the alien.
And the stranger.
And the lonely.
Confused, lost in himself, he no longer knows who or what he is, why or where he is.”
Source: The Modern Man: A philosophical divagation about the evil banality of daily acts
“The man is the captain, the women is the lieutenant and the kids are the soldiers. Like right now I'm not home with my kids. I teach my Wisdom so when I'm not there she takes care of the shorties. Just like the sun shines on the moon, and when the earth rotates and the moon is over here, and the sun is over here, and the sun and its shaded on the side we get light from the moon, showing and proving how we're symbolic to the stars and things of that nature.”
“The man is the first weapon of battle. Let us study the soldier, for it is he who brings reality to it.”
“The man is the Piltdown Man of modern politics.”
“The man is United - cut him and he bleeds red”
“The man jumped and stared at the two little girls. "What are you doing here?" he demanded.
"We live here, in the caretaker's cabin," Rosetta answered. "Do you need help?"
"Do I need help?" he roared. "What do you think, you little snippet?"
"What's a snippet?" asked Bianca innocently.”
Source: Our Christmas Bear
“The man kisses me and I just hop right on him like he's the hottest new ride at Disneyland.”
“The man laughed. “When my grandpa used to tell me stories, lots of times, he finished by telling me the same thing. They are all the same, boy. The woodcutter who saved Little Red Riding Hood, the good fairy, Santa Claus, any good guy you care to name. All the same. When someone needs something and deserves it, he or she shows up in exactly the right disguise to fit the occasion.”
Source: Vic: Mystery & Magic
“The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.”
“The man, like the mouse, undermines what he cannot understand. Because he bumps into a thing, he calls it the nearest obstacle; though the obstacle may happen to be the pillar that holds the roof over his head. he industriously removes the obstacle; and in return the obstacle removes him; and much more valuable things than he.”
Source: The Superstition of Divorce
“The man looked hot in his jersey, sexy as hell in a pair of
jeans and goddamn mouth-watering in nothing but his tan. In a business suit? He looked utterly fuckable.”
Source: Playing It Cool
“The man looks the world full in the face, as if it were made for his uses and fashioned to his liking. The woman takes a sidelong glance at it, full of subtlety, even of suspicion.”
Source: Orlando
“The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.”
“The man-made electromagnetic environment is overloaded and has been so for decades.”
“The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck, and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.”
“The man might have become a Power, but he preferred to remain an Ass.”
“The man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing," mused the Inspector, "Ha! I have a theory. These flashes come upon me at times... What do you think of this, Holmes? Sholto was, on his own confession, with his brother last night. The brother died in a fit, on which Sholto walked off the treasure! How's that?" "On which the dead man very considerately got up and locked the door on the inside," said Holmes.”
“The man molds the idol and then the idol molds the man.”
“The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.”
“The man needed USDA Prime tattooed up his flank.”
Source: My Tempting Highlander
“The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.”
“The man now retrieved a linen cloth and stuffed it deep into Katherine’s mouth. “Death,” he
whispered to her, “should be a quiet thing.”
Source: The Lost Symbol
“The Man of A Thousand Faces… I can see each one in this shard.”
Source: The Recognition
“The Man of a Thousand Voices”
“The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.”
“The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.”
Source: This Business of Living
“The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.”