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William Howard Taft (4)
Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
142 quotes about failure
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.
225 more quotes regarding peace
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.
218 views about beauty
Torquato Tasso (4)
Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.
161 sayings relating to courage
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.
174 quotes about experience
Johannes Tauler (2)
God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.
402 other quotes regarding God
A. J. P. Taylor (2)
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
225 other views regarding peace
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.
233 views relating to being alone
Edwin Way Teale (3)
Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.
233 wisdom & wit regarding being alone
Sara Teasdale (6)
Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.
218 other thoughts about beauty
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.
218 thoughts about beauty
Mother Teresa (18)
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
240 more sayings about faith
Tertullian (10)
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
240 quotes about faith
William Makepeace Thackeray (8)
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
44 sayings relating to attitudes
U Thant (3)
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
225 wisdom & wit about peace
Dylan Thomas (3)
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
210 sayings relating to education
Lewis Thomas (3)
Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.
15 quotes about being cool
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.
240 other thoughts relating to faith
James Thomson (5)
More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
161 other sayings about courage
Henry David Thoreau (117)
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
233 other quotes regarding being 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.
210 quotes relating to education
Johnny Thunders (2)
The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude.
44 thoughts about attitudes
James Thurber (14)
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
249 quotes about aging
Gene Tierney (12)
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
218 quotes regarding beauty
Paul Tillich (11)
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
233 other thoughts regarding being alone
Michael Tippett (3)
Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.
178 other quotes about imagination
J. R. R. Tolkien (5)
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
58 wisdom & wit regarding anger
Leo Tolstoy (21)
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
15 quotes about amazing
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.
212 other sayings about science
Robert Toombs (2)
Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.
43 other quotes about equality
Peter Tosh (2)
To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
321 more sayings regarding death
Paul Tournier (3)
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
233 wisdom & wit relating to being alone
Arnold J. Toynbee (7)
A life which does not go into action is a failure.
142 wisdom & wit about failure
G. M. Trevelyan (3)
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
58 quotes regarding anger
Anthony Trollope (9)
A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
87 sayings about family
Leon Trotsky (3)
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
249 quotes regarding aging
Pierre Trudeau (2)
The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
197 sayings about business
Harry S. Truman (26)
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
15 thoughts regarding amazing
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.
25 quotes relating to environmental
Barbara Tuchman (4)
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
78 quotes regarding food
Benjamin Tucker (2)
Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
43 thoughts about equality
Elizabeth I (9)
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
233 views relating to being alone
Gene Tunney (2)
Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.
24 more quotes regarding fitness
Ivan Turgenev (3)
Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
321 more thoughts about death
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.
43 wisdom & wit regarding forgiveness
Thomas Tusser (4)
At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.
427 quotes relating to being good
Mark Twain (98)
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
249 more views about aging