Quotes by Authors - T
Quotes by Authors - T
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet tired of the man.
The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and he has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.
The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Laurence Talent, incoming Missouri Congressman, responding to the question, "Are you a dog or a cat person?"Basically a dog person. I certainly, though, wouldn't want to offend my constituents who are cat people, and I should say that being, I hope, a sensitive person, that I have nothing against cats, and had cats when I was a boy, and if we didn't have the two dogs might very well be interested in having a cat now.
The TalmudFirst learn, then form opinions.
Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, 'grow, grow.'
In eating, a third of the stomach should be filled with food, a third with drink, and the rest left empty.
A person will be called to account Judgement Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.
Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First wealth, which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.
Stacia TauscherWe worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
Jeremy TaylorLove is friendship set on fire.
Sara TeasdaleBeauty, more than bitterness
Makes the heart break.
Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the White Man, as snow before a summer sun. Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear to us? I know you will cry with me, "NEVER! NEVER!".
TennysonNothing is said that has not been said before.
Mother TeresaWe realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed.
I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.
Margaret ThatcherIf you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
Dylan ThomasRage, rage, against the dying of the light!
Irene ThomasIt should be a very happy marriage --- they are both so much in love with him.
Hunter S. Thompson(from Generation of Swine) I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of _writing_ from the Book of Revelation than anything else in the English language-- and it is not because I am a biblical scholar, or because of any religious faith, but because I love the wild power of the language and the purity of the madness that governs it and makes it music.
William Irwin ThompsonIf you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.
Virgil ThomsonTry a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.
Henry David ThoreauThat government is best which governs least.
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or faraway.
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. ... If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book?
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations.
Goodness is the only investment which never fails.
The man for whom law exists - the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
James ThurberI think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
It's better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
Chidiock TichborneTruly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Henry J. TillmanIf you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
J. R. R. TolkienDo not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
All that is gold does not glitter; nor all those that wander are lost.
Leo TolstoyEveryone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
Lili TomlinMan invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Maria Torres - Spanish woman whose son is believed to be a reincarnated lama (for more info, click here)I don't care how much of a lama he is, he still needs his mother.
Harry S. TrumanIt is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Sojourner TruthWhere did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with him.
Turkish ProverbsNo matter how far you've gone down the wrong road, turn back.
If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.
Measure a thousand times and cut once.
Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.
Mark TwainThe man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds upon the heel that has crushed.
Buy land. They've stopped making it.
We are all alike, on the inside.
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Poetry, like chastity, can be carried too far.
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principle difference between a dog and a man.
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Familiarity breeds contempt--and children.
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter-- 'tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.
When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.
April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Wrinkles should merely indicate wehre smiles have been.
Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.
Noise proves nothing--often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling by Mark Twain
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all. Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli. Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.