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T |
| 28.35
grams of prevention are worth 0.45359
kilograms of cure. |
| Tact consists of knowing how far we may go too far.
Jean Cocteau |
| Tact is, after all, a kind of mind reading.
Sarah Orne Jewett |
| Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in. |
| Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. |
| Take a music-bath once or twice a week for a few seconds, and you will
find that it is to the soul what a water-bath is to the body.
Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Sr. |
| Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of
themselves. |
| Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson |
| Talk does not cook rice.
Chinese proverb |
| Talk is cheap unless you hire a lawyer. |
| Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
Benjamin
Disraeli |
Tanta stultitia mortalium est.
(What fools these mortals be.)
Lucius
Annaeus Seneca |
| Taste is the feminine of genius.
Edward Fitzgerald |
Tax reform means
"Don't tax you, don't tax me,
Tax that fellow behind
the tree." Russell Long |
| Taxation without representation is tyranny.
Attrib. to James Otis |
| Taxes, after all, are the dues that we pay for the privileges of
membership in an organised society. Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed. |
Teach me to feel another's woes,
To hide the fault I see;
That mercy I
to others show,
That mercy show to me.
Alexander Pope |
| Teachers have class. |
| Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.
Publilius Syrus |
| Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
Chinese
proverb |
| Teeth placed before the tongue give good advice.
Italian proverb |
| Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
Miguel de
Cervantes |
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Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are.
Anthelme
Brillat-Savarin |
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Tell not all you know, believe not all you hear, do not all you are
able. Italian proverb |
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Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries.
Henry
Wotton |
Tempus Fugit.
(Time flies.) |
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Ten persons who speak make more noise than then thousand who are
silent. Napoleon Bonaparte |
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Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to
travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing
anything. Charles Kuralt |
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That government is best which governs not at all.
Henry David Thoreau |
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That is a bad bridge which is shorter than the stream.
German proverb |
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That is not slander, sir, which is a truth.
William Shakespeare [Romeo
and Juliet] |
That low man seeks a little thing to do,
Sees it and does it;
This
high man, with a great thing to pursue,
Dies ere he knows it.
Robert
Browning |
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem to be, or
to be, when it suits him, a coward. Egdar Allan Poe |
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That man lives twice who lives the first life well.
Robert Herrick |
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That man travels the longest journey that undertakes it in search of a
sincere friend. Ali Ibn-Abi-Talib |
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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Thomas Hardy |
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That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
Moliere (Jean
Baptiste Poquelin) |
| That which angers men most is to be taxed above their neighbors. Sir
William Petty |
| That which cost little is less valued. Miguel de Cervantes |
| That which is incapable of proof itself is not proof of anything
else. Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| That which is not good for the swarm, neither is it good for the bee. |
| That which we call sin in others is experiment for us. Ralph Waldo
Emerson |
| That's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind. Neil
Armstrong |
| That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love
when we love them not. Miguel de Cervantes |
| That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lessen from day
to day. Lewis Carroll |
| The "good old times" - all times when old are good - are gone. Lord
George Gordon Byron |
| The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which
distinguishes human beings from the beasts. Heywood Broun |
| The absence of humility in critics is something wonderful. Arthur
Helps |
| The absolutely banal - my sense of my own uniqueness. Wystan Hugh
Auden |
| The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being
absorbed. Anthony Burgess |
| The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. Oscar Wilde |
| The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next. Mark Twain
(Samuel Langhorne Clemens) |
| The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent Anglo-Saxons from sinning:
it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin. Salvador de Madariaga |
| The answers to prayers are usually found in those who pray. |
| The apparel oft proclaims the man. William Shakespeare [Hamlet] |
| The art of creation is older than the art of killing. Andrey
Voznesensky |
| The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. Marcus Aurelius |
| The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Philip G. Hamerton |
| The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the
largest amount of feathers with the least amount of hissing. Jean B.
Colbert |
| The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Gilbert
K. Chesterton |
| The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles. German proverb |
| The atheist has no hope. J.F. Clarke |
| The attacker must vanquish; the defender need only survive. |
| The attempt to understand the universe is one of the only things that |
| elevates the human condition from farce to the elegance of
tragedy. Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate in Physics 1979 |
| The audience strummed their catarrhs. Alexander Woollcott |
| The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the
average man can see better than he can think. |
| The bachelor is a peacock, the engaged man a lion, and the married man
a jackass. German proverb |
The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes,
But Here or There as
strikes the Player goes;
And He that toss'd you down into the
Field,
He knows about it all - he knows - HE knows! LXX, Rubaiyat of
Omar Khayyam (5th Ed.) |
| The banalities of a great man pass for wit. Alexander Chase |
| The barber learns his trade on the orphan's chin. Arabian proverb |
| The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best undestood by a
man incapable of it. Murray Kempton |
| The belly overreaches the head. French proverb |
| The best brewer sometimes makes bad beer. German proverb |
| The best cure for insomnia is a Monday morning. Sandy Cooley |
| The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes
of his time each day. O.A. Battista |
| The best mirror is an old friend. German proverb |
| The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the
characters are all purely imaginary. Franklyn P. Adams |
| The best prophet of the future is the past. |
| The best qualification of a prophet is to have a good memory. Sir
George Savile, 1st Marquis of Halifax |
| The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. Jacqueline Schiff |
| The best thing about prohibition may have been its end. Alistair Cooke |
| The best thing I know between France and England is - the sea. Douglas
Jerrold |
| The best throw of the dice is to throw them away. English proverb |
| The best way out is always through. Robert Frost |
| The best way to find something is to look for something else. |
| The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away. Wilson
Mizner |
| The best way to make children is to make them happy. Oscar Wilde |
| The best you get is an even break. Franklin P. Adams |
| The better part of valor is indiscretion. Samuel Butler |
| The better part of valour is discretion. William Shakespeare [I Henry
IV] |
| The Bible says that the last thing God made was woman; He must have
made her on a Saturday night - it shows fatigue. Alexandre Dumas Jr. |
| The big drum only sounds wells from afar. Persian proverb |
| The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away. Eugene Field |
| The biggest fool in the world hasn't been born yet. Josh Billings
(Henry Wheeler Shaw) |
| The biggest mistake is not learning from all your other mistakes. |
| The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you
are working for somebody else. |
| The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within,
from one's own efforts. Albert Einstein |
| The blind man is laughing at the bald-head. Persian proverb |
| The blow of a whip raises a welt, but a blow of the tongue crushes
bones. From Apocrypha, Ecclesiaticus 28:18 |
The blush that flies at seventeen
Is fixed at forty-nine. Rudyard
Kipling |
| The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stew-pan,
and the whole fixed upon stilts. Samuel Butler |
| The body is the chief witness in every murder. Gilbert K. Chesterton |
| The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as
it is born, and carries in itself the causes of its destruction. Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| The body searches for that which has injured the mind with
love. Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) |
| The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden, and it ends
with Revelations. Oscar Wilde |
| The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads. Anatole
France |
| The bow too tensely strung is easily broken. Publilius Syrus |
| The brief span of life forbids us to cherish long life. Horace
(Quintus Horatius Flaccus) |
| The busy have no time for tears. Lord George Gordon Byron |
| The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one. George Herbert |
| The cat always leaves her mark upon her friend. Spanish proverb |
| The cat in gloves catches no mice. English proverb |
| The chain of wedlock is so heavy to carry that it takes two to carry
it, sometimes three. Alexandre Dumas Sr. |
| The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them,
sometimes three. Alexander Dumas Fils |
| The chief danger in life is that you may take too many
precautions. Alfred Adler |
| The Child is father of the Man. William Wordsworth
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| The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a
job application form. Stanley J. Randall |
| The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking
mummy or else, if he had not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a
fanatical monomaniac. Aldous Huxley |
| The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Napoleon Bonaparte |
| The corruption of every government begins nearly always with that of
principles. Montesquieu (Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de
Montesquieu) |
| The cost of liberty is less than the price of oppression. |
| The cost of living hasn't affected its popularity. |
| The counterfeit money is never lost. Greek proverb |
| The course of a river is almost always disproved of by the
source. Jean Cocteau |
| The course of true love never did run smooth. William Shakespeare [A
Midsummer Night's Dream] |
| The cow is nothing but a machine which makes grass fit for us people to
eat. John McNulty |
| The cow may be black, but the milk comes out white. Russian proverb |
| The crab instructs its young, "Walk straight ahead - like
me." Hindustani proverb |
| The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor. James Howell |
| The crime that goes unpunished is followed by others. Italian proverb |
| The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the
critic. Gilbert K. Chesterton |
| The cruelest lies are often told in silence. Robert Louis Stevenson |
| The cruelest revenge of a woman is to remain faithful to a
man. Jacques Bossuet |
| The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out the clock. Wilson
Mizner |
| The cynic puts all human actions into two classes: openly bad and
secretly bad. Henry Ward Beecher |
| The decision doesn't have to be logical, it was unanimous. |
| The deep sea can be fathomed, but who knows the hearts of men? Malay
proverb |
| The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its
prisons. |
| The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one
of his best lieutenants. Walter Lippmann |
| The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea,
and the business now suffers from competition. Josh Billings (Henry
Wheeler Shaw) |
| The devil tempted Christ, but it was Christ who tempted the devil to
tempt him. Samuel Butler |
| The devil tempts all other men, but idle men tempt the devil. Turkish
proverb |
| The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape. William Shakespeare |
| The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a
person's determination. Tommy LaSorda |
| The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the
difference between lightning and the lightning bug. Mark Twain (Samuel
Langhorne Clemens) |
| The dipsomaniac and the abstainer both make the same mistake: they
both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink. Gilbert K. Chesterton |
| The disappointment of manhood succeeds to the delusion of
youth. Benjamin Disraeli |
| The dog is a lion in his own house. Persian proverb |
| The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on. Arabian proverb |
| The door is the key. |
| The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get
married. Cyril Connolly |
| The drowning man is not troubled by rain. Persian proverb |
| The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to
delay it. Jean de La Bruyere |
| The eagle flies alone. Italian proverb |
| The earth is a beehive; we all enter by the same door but live in
different cells. African proverb |
| The earth is like a tiny grain of sand, only much, much heavier. |
| The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead
us into it. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The egg is the source of all.
'Tis everyone's ancestral hall.
The
bravest chief that ever fought,
The lowest thief that e'er was
caught,
The harlot's lip, the maiden's leg,
They each and all came from
an egg. Clarence Day |
| The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel. John
Lyly |
| The end of doubt is the beginning of repose. Petrarch (Francesco
Petrarca) |
| The end of labor is to gain leisure. |
| The ends justify the means. Paraphrase of Niccolo Machiavelli [Il
Principe] |
| The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable
in full pursuit of the uneatable. Oscar Wilde |
| The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it
makes. Thomas Beecham |
| The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one
person. Vii Putnam |
| The envious man grows lean when his neighbor waxes fat. Horace
(Quintus Horatius Flaccus) |
| The epigram has been compared to a scorpion, because as the sting of
the scorpion lieth in the tail, the force of the epigram is in the
conclusion. Lilius Gyraldus |
| The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with
their bones. William Shakespeare [Julius Caesar] |
| The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except
the fact that it is missing. Gilbert K. Chesterton |
| The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use. Marcus Tullius
Cicero |
| The expert is a person who avoids the small errors as he sweeps on to
the grand fallacy. |
| The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. Publilius
Syrus |
| The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people. |
| The eyes have one language everywhere. George Herbert |
| The fall of a leaf is a whisper to the living. English proverb |