T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“To girls and women everywhere, I issue a simple invitation.
My sisters, my daughters, my friends; find your voice”
“To give [the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba] even covert support is on a par with the hypocrisy and cynicism for which the United States is constantly denouncing the Soviet Union in the United Nations and elsewhere. This point will not be lost on the rest of the world, nor on our own consciences.”
“To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.”
“To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction one or more universal laws, together with certain singular statements, the initial conditions ... We have thus two different kinds of statement, both of which are necessary ingredients of a complete causal explanation.”
“To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.”
“To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse.”
“To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.”
Source: The child in the family
“To give a child the things they love to eat bestows a heroic glow. Seeing a child fed reassures you that you have done your duty as a parent, like a mother bird ferrying worms to the nest.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.”
“To give a gift, we think that someone must receive it. But possibly the greatest gift is granting the recipient permission to reject it, for then we have freed that gift of every agenda that would render it as less than a gift.”
“To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.”
“To give a man his life but deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty, is to still leave him a slave.”
“To give a name to a thing is as gratifying as giving a name to an island, but it is also dangerous: the danger consists in one's becoming convinced that all is taken care of and that once named, the phenomenon has also been explained.”
“To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not.”
Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
“To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It's not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers.”
“To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.”
Source: Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things
“To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.”
Source: The Essential Aristotle
“To give a tangerine is a Chinese New Year's Tradition. Stems are left on to keep friendship intact.”
Source: Very California: Travels Through the Golden State
“To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal - to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself.”
“To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.”
“To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.”
Source: Lectures on Architecture and Painting
“To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.”
“To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.”
Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
“To give an answer in advance of a question was futile, and to propound a question in order to supply the answer was also futile. There were difficulties that could best be met by unawareness of their existence.”
“To give and not expect anything in return, that is what lies at the heart of love.”
“To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.”
“To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.”
Source: Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age; Letters of Pliny the Younger
“To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.”
“To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.”
Source: The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm
“To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.”
“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.”
“To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.”
Source: The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle
“To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile?”
“To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.”
“To give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.
g. to apportion farm lands and homesteads for these segregated persons where they would be taught to work under competent instructors for the period of their entire lives.”
“To give confidence to an adult is fleeting, to give confidence to a child is eternal”
“To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.”
“To give desire a voice is to give it a body through which to breathe and live. It is to admit and submit something which is on the outer limits of your understanding.”
Source: Open Water
“To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god .”
“To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.”
“To give free rein to the senses is to shackle the soul, to shackle the senses is to liberate it.”
“To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide; it only requires to let go the rein. But to form a free government; that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.”
Source: Reflections on the French Revolution
“To give generously but appropriately and then, most difficult of all, and as the full apotheosis of the art, with feeling, in the moment and spontaneously, has always been recognized as one of the greatest of human qualities.”
“To give herself a measure of credible autonomy, she had decided to invent a husband. Then, in a subsequent flash of inspiration, she had just as quickly killed him off.”
Source: The Accidental Mistress
“To give importance to trifling matters.”
“To give is to live.”
Source: Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society
“To give is to receive.”
“To give is to spin wild in a circle, child in the father's hands, fearless.”
Source: Thirty Thousand Days: The Journey Home to God
“To give just one example of what the inside of this world (largely upper-class and Oxbridge world of wealth, power, and privilege) looked like: Huxley sent the UNESCO documents to his close friend the English poet Stephen Spender. In his reply, from his regular retreat at the Chalet Waldegg in Gstaad, Switzerland, Spender says that he won't burden Huxley with his own views on human rights, since he doesn't have anything 'worth saying' on the topic, but then goes on to suggest that Huxley send the documents to some of his acquaintances. This curious list of the great and the good includes the psychiatrist and philosopher Karl Jaspers, the first and second president of Czechoslovakia, the Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce, Isaiah Berlin, A.J. Ayer, and W.H. Auden. Spender even gives Huxley some advice about whom to avoid: 'I honestly don't think there are any outstanding Belgians.”
Source: Letters to the Contrary: A Curated History of the UNESCO Human Rights Survey