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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 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 thoughts regarding 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 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 quotes about experience
Johannes Tauler (2)
God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.
402 thoughts about 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 wisdom & wit relating to 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 more views regarding 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 regarding being alone
Sara Teasdale (6)
Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.
218 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 quotes regarding beauty
Mother Teresa (18)
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
240 views regarding faith
Tertullian (10)
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
240 quotes regarding 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 other thoughts 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 other views 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 more 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 sayings about faith
James Thomson (5)
More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
161 other 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 more views 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 more thoughts about education
Johnny Thunders (2)
The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude.
44 quotes about attitudes
James Thurber (14)
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
249 other wisdom & wit relating to 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 quotes relating to being alone
Michael Tippett (3)
Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.
178 quotes regarding imagination
J. R. R. Tolkien (5)
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
58 more thoughts regarding anger
Leo Tolstoy (21)
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
15 more thoughts regarding 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 quotes relating to 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.
321 more views about death
Paul Tournier (3)
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
233 more thoughts relating to being alone
G. M. Trevelyan (3)
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
58 quotes about anger
Lionel Trilling (6)
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
424 more wisdom & wit regarding art
Anthony Trollope (9)
A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
87 quotes regarding family
Leon Trotsky (3)
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
249 more quotes about aging
Pierre Trudeau (2)
The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
197 quotes regarding business
Harry S. Truman (26)
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
15 more wisdom & wit relating to 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
Benjamin Tucker (2)
Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
43 other quotes about equality
Elizabeth I (9)
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
233 quotes about being alone
Ivan Turgenev (3)
Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
321 wisdom & wit 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 regarding forgiveness
Thomas Tusser (4)
At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.
427 views about being good
Mark Twain (98)
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
249 quotes about aging