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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 sayings relating to 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 views about 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 sayings 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 more quotes about 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 thoughts about experience
Johannes Tauler (2)
God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.
402 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 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 other quotes 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 quotes about being alone
Sara Teasdale (6)
Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.
218 other wisdom & wit 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 other views about beauty
Mother Teresa (18)
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
240 quotes about faith
Tertullian (10)
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
240 wisdom & wit regarding faith
William Makepeace Thackeray (8)
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
44 wisdom & wit about 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 quotes 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 wisdom & wit about 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 other thoughts 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 quotes regarding faith
James Thomson (5)
More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
161 quotes regarding 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 about 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 views about education
Johnny Thunders (2)
The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude.
44 views about attitudes
James Thurber (14)
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
249 more 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 about beauty
Paul Tillich (11)
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
233 sayings about being alone
Michael Tippett (3)
Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.
178 sayings relating to imagination
J. R. R. Tolkien (5)
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
58 other wisdom & wit about anger
Leo Tolstoy (21)
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
15 more quotes relating to 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.
213 more 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 quotes about equality
Peter Tosh (2)
To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
323 quotes relating to death
G. M. Trevelyan (3)
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
58 other quotes about anger
Anthony Trollope (9)
A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
87 quotes about family
Leon Trotsky (3)
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
249 wisdom & wit relating to aging
Pierre Trudeau (2)
The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
198 quotes regarding business
Harry S. Truman (26)
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
15 other sayings about 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 more views relating to environmental
Barbara Tuchman (4)
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
79 quotes regarding food
Benjamin Tucker (2)
Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
43 wisdom & wit regarding equality
Elizabeth I (9)
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
233 sayings regarding being alone
Ivan Turgenev (3)
Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
323 quotes 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 sayings about forgiveness
Thomas Tusser (4)
At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.
428 thoughts regarding 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