T Quotes
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“There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.”
“There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.”
“There is nothing so disturbing to one's well-being and judgment as to see a friend get rich”
Source: Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
“There is nothing so divine like deep devotion in the pursuit of your dreams.”
“There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory--except a great defeat.”
“there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.”
Source: Romance and Reality
“There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.”
“There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.”
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
“There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.”
Source: The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors
“There is nothing so eloquent as a thing well done.”
“There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours oblivion.”
Source: A Village Ophelia
“There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.”
Source: I, Robot
“There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.”
Source: The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c
“There is nothing so far removed from us as to be beyond our reach, or so hidden that we cannot discover it.”
“There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.”
Source: The Great Crusade: Extracts from Speeches Delivered During the War
“There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.”
Source: Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini
“There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.”
“There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.”
“There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.”
“There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.”
“There is nothing so great or ideally beautiful as the action of God in the human soul. If we knew how to discern it in ourselves, our lives would be transformed. If we could see it in others we would love even more him who is always in our midst, who acts in us, and who works marvels - these spiritual renewals that we shall understand only in eternity.”
Source: Selected Writings
“There is nothing so great or so goodly in creation, but that it is a mean symbol of the gospel of Christ, and of the things He has prepared for them that love Him.”
Source: The Stones of Venice: The fall
“There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend; nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“There is nothing so high as renunciation of self.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“There is nothing so imperfect, so helpless, so naked, so shapeless, so foul, as man observed at birth, to whom alone, one might almost say, Nature has given not a clean passage to the light; but, defiled with blood and covered with filth, and resembling more one just slain than one just born, he is an object for none to touch or lift up or kiss or embrace except for someone who loves with a natural affection.”
“There is nothing so important, so imperative, as the delivery of the divine message that has been entrusted to us.”
“There is nothing so inconvenient in this world as an absolutely truthful person, who can both speak and write, and has the courage of his convictions. One can always arrange matters with liars ... But with the man or woman who holds truth dearer than life, and honor more valuable than advancement, there is nothing to be done, now that governments cannot insist on the hemlock-cure, as in the case of Socrates.”
“There is nothing so inspiring to a woman as seeing love in a man's eyes when he looks at her.”
“There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he feels his own nothingness, isolation, insignificance, dependent nature, powerless, emptiness. Immediately there issue from his soul ennui, sadness, chagrin, vexation, despair.”
“There is nothing so intractable as a calendar.”
Source: Cluny Brown: A Novel
“There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.”
Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious
“There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.”
Source: Gravity's Rainbow
“There is nothing so lovely as to be beautiful. Beauty is a gift of God and we should cherish it as such.”
“There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat.”
“There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.”
Source: Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson
“There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.”
“There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.”
Source: THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE
“There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.”
“There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.”
“There is nothing so necessary, but at the same time there is nothing more difficult (I know it by experience) for you young fellows, than to know how to behave yourselves prudently towards those whom you do not like. Your passions are warm, and your heads are light; you hate all those who oppose your views, either of ambition or love; and a rival, in either, is almost a synonymous term for any enemy.”
“There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.”
“There is nothing so patient, in this world or any other, as a virus searching for a host.”
Source: Blackout: The Newsflesh Trilogy:
“There is nothing so perfect as pinball and a pint at 11 a.m.”
Source: How to be Idle
“There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.”
“There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.”
Source: Legal arguments and speeches to the jury. Diplomatic and official papers. Miscellaneous letters
“There is nothing so practical as a good theory.”
Source: Field Theory in Social Science: Selected Theoretical Papers
“There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the highest powers of the human mind to produce the miracles of art, as for other men to breathe or move. Correggio, who is said to have produced some of his divinest works almost without having seen a picture, probably did not know that he had done anything extraordinary.”
Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
“There is nothing so revered yet so reviled as war; for even as it brings out the worst in men, it also brings out the best in them.”
“There is nothing so rewarding as to make people realize that they are worthwhile in this world.”
“There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.”
Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art