TIS Quotes - page 3

All, all of a piece throughout Thy chase had a beast in view Thy wars brought nothing about Thy lovers were all untrue. 'Tis well an old age is out, And time to begin a new. (John Dryden)
Tis true, my form is something odd but blaming me, is blaming God, Could I create myself anew I would not fail in pleasing you. View quote
Joseph Merrick
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe; But 'tis the happy that have called thee so. View quote
Robert Southey
I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren' View quote
Laurence Sterne
Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found; And 'tis joy that moves the pinion, When the wheel of time goes round. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
My country tis of thee, to take swings at each other on talk show TV. View quote
Ani DiFranco
Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power. View quote
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it. View quote
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Life! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; Tis hard to part when friends are dear,- Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear. Then steal away, give little warning. Choose thine own time, Say not "Good-night," but in some brighter clime, Bid me "Good-morning." View quote
Anna Letitia Barbauld
And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well - but 'tis not true! View quote
Matthew Arnold
To each his suff'rings: all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan, The tender for another's pain; Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate? Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies. Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. (Thomas Gray)
Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come! And fast thy soul is fleeting To seek its starry home. View quote
Pierre-Jean de Béranger
Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise. View quote
George Chapman
Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven. View quote
George Chapman
There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I. View quote
A. E. Housman
My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility. View quote
Andrew Marvell
Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined. View quote
William Congreve
Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive. View quote
William Congreve
There is an inconvenience which attends all abstruse reasoning. That it may silence, without convincing an antagonist, and requires the same intense study to make us sensible of its force, that was at first requisite for its invention. When we leave our closet, and engage in the common affairs of life, its conclusions seem to vanish, like the phantoms of the night on the appearance of the morning; and 'tis difficult for us to retain even that conviction, which we had attain'd with difficulty. View quote
David Hume
The slaving Poor are incapable of any Principles: Gentlemen may be converted to true Principles, by Time and Experience. The middling Rank of Men have Curiosity and Knowledge enough to form Principles, but not enough to form true ones, or correct any Prejudices that they may have imbib'd: And 'tis among the middling Rank, that Tory Principles do at present prevail most in England. View quote
David Hume
I know not how the world will receive it, nor how it may reflect on those that shall seem to favor it. For in a way beset with those that contend, on one side for too great Liberty, and on the other side for too much Authority, 'tis hard to passe between the points of both unwounded. (Thomas Hobbes)
Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love! View quote
Lewis Carroll
Tis very strange men should be so fond of being wickeder than they are. View quote
Daniel Defoe
Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer. View quote
Daniel Defoe
'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him. View quote
Jonathan Swift