TIS Quotes - page 4

Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail -- Assent -- and you are sane -- Demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- And handled with a Chain. (Emily Dickinson)
Since then 'tis centuries and yet Feels shorter than the DAY I first surmised the horses' heads Were toward eternity. View quote
Emily Dickinson
Heed not the night; a summer lodge amid the wild is mine - 'Tis shadowed by the tulip-tree, 'tis mantled by the vine. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
Action is transitory-a step, a blow- The motion of a muscle-this way or that- 'Tis done; and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed. View quote
William Wordsworth
Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it. View quote
Hugh Walpole
Life - life - life! 'Tis the sole great thing This side of death, Heart on heart in the wonder of Spring! View quote
William Ernest Henley
Tis well to be merry and wise, 'Tis well to be honest and true; It is best to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new. View quote
Charles Maturin
Old man! 'Tis not difficult to die. View quote
Lord Byron
Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work. View quote
Alfred Austin
Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? Polonius: By the mass, and ‘tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius: It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet: Or like a whale? Polonius: Very like a whale. (William Shakespeare)
Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers. View quote
William Shakespeare
Tis within ourselves that we are thus or thus. View quote
William Shakespeare
We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all. View quote
William Shakespeare
'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after. View quote
William Shakespeare
QUEEN Thou knowst tis common all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity. HAMLET Ay, madam, it is common. View quote
William Shakespeare
'Tis possible, young sir, that some excess Mars youthful judgment and old men's no less; Yet we must take our counsel as we may For (flying years this lesson still convey), 'Tis worst unwisdom to be overwise, And not to use, but still correct one's eyes. View quote
Arthur Hugh Clough
Before you act, consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act. View quote
Sallust
I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky: It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from Heaven Than when I was a boy. View quote
Thomas Hood
O Trade, O Trade! Would thou wert dead! The time needs heart - 'tis tired of head. View quote
Sidney Lanier
Yes, as my swift days near their goal 'Tis all that I implore In life and death a chainless soul With courage to endure. (Emily Brontë)
That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. View quote
J. M. Barrie
'Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright. And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen- For what listen they? View quote
John Keats
A drainless shower Of light is poesy: 'tis the supreme of power; 'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm. View quote
John Keats
For singing till his heaven fills, 'Tis love of earth that he instils, And ever winging up and up, Our valley is his golden cup, And he the wine which overflows To lift us with him as he goes. View quote
George Meredith
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