Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

Authors by Name: 'T':

Tacitus (6)

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

William Howard Taft (4)

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

Rabindranath Tagore (35)

Age considers youth ventures.

Oliver Tambo (2)

We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.

Junichiro Tanizaki (2)

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

Torquato Tasso (4)

Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.

Allen Tate (3)

Dramatic experience is not logical it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

Johannes Tauler (2)

God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.

A. J. P. Taylor (2)

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.

Jeremy Taylor (8)

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

Edwin Way Teale (3)

Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.

Sara Teasdale (6)

Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.

William Temple (6)

You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.

Mother Teresa (18)

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Tertullian (10)

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

William Makepeace Thackeray (8)

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

U Thant (3)

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Dylan Thomas (3)

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Lewis Thomas (3)

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

Dorothy Thompson (3)

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

James Thomson (5)

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Virgil Thomson (3)

Let your mind alone, and see what happens.

Henry David Thoreau (117)

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Edward Thorndike (4)

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

Johnny Thunders (2)

The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude.

James Thurber (14)

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Gene Tierney (12)

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

Paul Tillich (11)

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Michael Tippett (3)

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

J. R. R. Tolkien (5)

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

Leo Tolstoy (21)

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Clyde Tombaugh (2)

Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.

Robert Toombs (2)

Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.

Peter Tosh (2)

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

Paul Tournier (3)

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

Arnold J. Toynbee (7)

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

G. M. Trevelyan (3)

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Lionel Trilling (6)

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

Anthony Trollope (9)

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

Leon Trotsky (3)

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

Pierre Trudeau (2)

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

Francois Truffaut (4)

Film lovers are sick people.

Harry S. Truman (26)

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Paul Tsongas (2)

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

Barbara Tuchman (4)

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

Benjamin Tucker (2)

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

Elizabeth I (9)

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Gene Tunney (2)

Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.

Ivan Turgenev (3)

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Lana Turner (6)

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

Thomas Tusser (4)

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

Mark Twain (98)

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

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