T Quotes
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“There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible.”
Source: The art and craft of judging: the decisions of Judge Learned Hand
“There is nothing small about our God, and when we understand God we will find out that there ought not to be anything small about us. We must have an enlargement of our conception of God, then we will know that we have come to a place where all things are possible, for our God is an omnipotent God for impossible positions.”
“There is nothing small in God's eyes; let there be nothing small in thine”
Source: Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms
“There is nothing small in the service of God.”
Source: The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]
“there is nothing so absolute as the tyranny of weakness.”
“There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.”
“There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.”
“There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.”
“There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.”
“There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.”
“There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.”
“There is nothing so agonizing, or so dangerous,
as a memory unexpressed, unexplored, unexplained, &
unexploded. Grief is the grenade that always goes off.”
Source: Call Us What We Carry
“There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.”
“There is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and the wildlife are native. The fundamental idea behind the parks is native. It is, in brief, that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us. The parks stand as the outward symbal of the great human principle.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1934, Volume 3
“There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!”
“There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.”
“There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.”
“There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.”
Source: A Preface to Politics
“There is nothing so bad no good can come of it.”
“There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.”
“There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.”
“There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.”
“There is nothing so big nor so crazy that one out of a million technological societies may not feel itself driven to do, provided it is physically possible.”
Source: Selected Papers of Freeman Dyson with Commentary
“There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.”
“There is nothing so catching as refinement.”
Source: The Semi-attached Couple
“There is nothing so certain that it cannot vary. Even the sun itself has its cycles of instability. Likewise, there is nothing so mutable that it cannot be fixed. Every revolution produces a new order. Every death is, simultaneously, a metamorphosis.”
Source: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence.”
“There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.”
Source: Half Empty
“There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.”
“There is nothing so consistent with reason as this denial of reason.”
Source: Pensées
“There is nothing so costly as bargains.”
“There is nothing so costly as ignorance.”
“There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life”
Source: State Children in Australia: A History of Boarding Out and Its Developments
“There is nothing so cunning as tangled deception. If you wish to seek out the truth, first uncover the lies that surround the illusion...”
“There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.”
Source: Five complete Hercule Poirot novels
“There is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating.”
Source: Penelope's Progress
“There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.”
“There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood. I have nothing but contempt for the people who despise money. They are hypocrites or fools. Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. Without an adequate income half the possibilities of life are shut off. The only thing to be careful about is that you do not pay more than a shilling for the shilling you earn. You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it in their flesh. They do not know how mean it makes you. It exposes you to endless humiliation, it cuts your wings, it eats into your soul like a cancer. It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank, and independent. I pity with all my heart the artist, whether he writes or paints, who is entirely dependent for subsistence upon his art.”
Source: Of Human Bondage
“There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.”
Source: Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)
“There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“There is nothing so deluded as feelings. Christians cannot live by feelings. Let me further tell you that many feelings are the work of Satan, for they are not right feelings. What right have you to set up your feelings against the Word of Christ?”
Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series
“There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes from consulting one's own personal convenience.”
“There is nothing so depressing as good advice, and I will be pleased if you do not inflict it upon me. Frankly, I am shocked at you. You must know this, surely? Some years ago I suffered such an offensively gratuitous piece of good advice that I was depressed for six months afterward. It was a very close call - I almost never recovered.”
Source: Shantaram: A Novel
“There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.”
Source: Fireside Travels
“There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach - it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.”
“There is nothing so difficult or so dangerous as to undertake to change the order of things.”
“There is nothing so difficult to arrive at as the nature and personality of one's parents. Death, about which so much mystery is made,is perhaps no mystery at all. But the history of one's parents has to be pieced together from fragments, their motives and characters guessed at, and the truth about them remains deeply buried, like a boulder that projects one small surface above the level of smooth lawn, and when you come to dig around it, it proves to be too large ever to move, though each year's frost forces it up a little higher.”
Source: Time Will Darken It
“There is nothing so difficult to describe as happiness. Whether some feeling of envy enters into the mind upon hearing of it, or whether it is so calm, so unassuming, so little ostentatious in itself, that words give an imperfect idea of it, I know not. It is easier to enjoy it, than define it. ... and is oftener found at home, when home has not been embittered by dissensions, suspicions and guilt, than any where else upon earth. Yes, it is in home and in those who watch there for us.”
Source: The Works of Lady Caroline Lamb: Glenarvon (1816)
“There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.”
Source: An Ideal Husband: Second Edition, Revised