T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Thou shalt not whine' should be the eleventh commandment.”
“Thou shalt not, it is said, make unto thee any graven image of God. The same commandment should apply when God is taken to mean the living part of every human being, the part that cannot be grasped. It is a sin that, however much it is committed against us, we almost continually commit ourselves--Except when we love.”
Source: Max Frisch: Novels, Plays and Essays
“Thou shalt prove
That beauty is no beauty without love.”
Source: Ayres & observations: selected poems of Thomas Campion
“Thou shalt remake the world”
“Thou shalt rest sweetly if thy heart condemn thee not.”
Source: The Confessions of St. Augustine, Including the Imitation of Christ
“Thou shalt wear trousers, but they shall fall half down to teach humility over arrogance.”
“Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.”
“Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
[Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]”
“Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.”
“Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.”
Source: William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
“Thou silent power, whose welcome sway charms every anxious thought away; in whose divine oblivion drown'd, sore pain and weary toil grow mild, love is with kinder looks beguiled, and Grief forgets her fondly cherish'd wound; oh, whither hast thou flown, indulgent god? God of kind shadows and of healing dews, whom dost thou touch with thy Lethaean rod? Around whose temples now thy opiate airs diffuse?”
Source: Poetical Works of Akenside
“Thou slanting rain! Thou Hebe of the Skies, That pours out drink to Earth; thou faithful wife That with moist tears embraces her prone lord. Thou mist intensified; thou double dew That drowns the drought, that heals the parched and burnt -- Thou resurrection rain.”
Source: Cloudrifts at Twilight
“Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!
Thou little valiant, great in villainy!
Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!
Thou Fortune's champion, that dost never fight
But where her humorous ladyship is by
To teach thee safety.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens. With a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, from the Most Eminent Commentators; a History of the Stage, a Life of Shakespeare, &c.[edited] by Alexander Chalmers
“Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.”
Source: Troilus and Cressida
“Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.”
“Thou speak'st like him's untutored to repeat: Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.”
Source: A Reconstructed Text of Pericles, Prince of Tyre
“Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found; 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound, Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command, Unwrought, and easy to the potter's hand: Now take the mould; now bend thy mind to feel The first sharp motions of the forming wheel.”
Source: Poetical Works: With a Memoir
“Thou still unravish’d shaft of breathtaking length and girth.”
Source: Part-Time Husband
“Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!”
“Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.”
Source: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
“Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.”
Source: Beauties of George Herbert: with Selections from
“Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also. Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good Knight of Jesus Christ. No man holding knighthood to God, wrappeth himself with worldly needs, that he please to him, to whom he hath proved himself. For he that fighteth in battle, shall not be crowned, but he fight lawfully.”
Source: 2 Timothy KJV: King James Version
“Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest.”
“Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate...”
Source: The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume II: Jewish Poems and Translations
“Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind!”
“Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.”
“Thou unfit for any place but hell.”
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
“Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers in our casual deeds . . . Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose tomorrow the ground won today- Ah, do not we, Wanderer, await it too?”
“Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers of our casual creeds, Who never deeply felt, nor clearly will'd, Whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, Whose vague resolves never have been fulfill'd; For whom each year we see Breeds new beginnings, disappointments new; Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose to-morrow the ground won to-day Ah! do not we, wanderer! await it too?”
Source: Dover Beach and Other Poems
“Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!”
Source: Ode to a Nightingale
“Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown.”
“Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.”
“Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife, And so turns wine to water back again.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems
“Thou weedy elf-skinned canker-blossom!”
“Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.”
Source: Coriolanus; Or The Roman Matron. Othello, The Moor of Venice. Twelfth Night; Or What You Will. London, Longman 1808. 68,89,71,75 S., 4 Tf
“Thou wert always the teacher, wert thou not? The seducer with truths, the bestower of knowledge and power.”
Source: Hell and Earth
“Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.”
“Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart!”
“Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild
Mingled in harmony on Nature's face,
Ascend our rocky mountains. Let thy foot
Fail not with weariness, for on their tops
The beauty and the majesty of earth,
Spread wide beneath, shall make thee to forget
The steep and toilsome way.”
“Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter!”
“Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. *all cheer for Shakespearean insults*”
“Thou whoreson, senseless villain!”
Source: Dramatic Works: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone
“Thou wilt always rejoice in the evening, if thou spend the day profitably.”
“Thou wilt be condemned in to everlasting redemption for this.”
“Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.”
“Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee.”
“Thou wilt lament
Hereafter, when the evil shall be done
And shall admit no cure.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer
“Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all.”
Source: Mardi: and A Voyage Thither: Works of Melville
“Thou wouldst be loved? - then let thy heart
From its present pathway part not!
Being everything which now thou art,
Be nothing which thou art not.
So with the world thy gentle ways,
Thy grace, thy more than beauty,
Shall be an endless theme of praise,
And love - a simple duty.”
Source: The Bells and Other Poems