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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.
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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.
222 views 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.
212 more quotes about beauty
Torquato Tasso (4)
Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.
158 quotes regarding 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 more views about experience
Johannes Tauler (2)
God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.
396 quotes 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.
222 more views about 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.
232 wisdom & wit 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.
232 views about being alone
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.
212 other quotes about beauty
Mother Teresa (18)
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
240 quotes regarding 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 quotes 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.
222 thoughts regarding peace
Dylan Thomas (3)
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
204 other wisdom & wit regarding 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 views 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 thoughts relating to faith
James Thomson (5)
More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
158 more quotes about courage
Henry David Thoreau (117)
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
232 sayings 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.
204 sayings regarding 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.
247 views about aging
Gene Tierney (12)
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
212 thoughts regarding beauty
Paul Tillich (11)
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
232 more quotes about being alone
Michael Tippett (3)
Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.
178 thoughts about imagination
J. R. R. Tolkien (5)
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
56 quotes about anger
Leo Tolstoy (21)
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
15 views 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 more wisdom & wit about science
Robert Toombs (2)
Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.
43 thoughts regarding equality
Peter Tosh (2)
To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
320 other sayings about death
Arnold J. Toynbee (7)
A life which does not go into action is a failure.
141 wisdom & wit about failure
G. M. Trevelyan (3)
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
56 more sayings about anger
Anthony Trollope (9)
A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
86 more sayings regarding family
Leon Trotsky (3)
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
247 sayings about aging
Pierre Trudeau (2)
The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
198 wisdom & wit regarding business
Harry S. Truman (26)
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
15 quotes 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 about environmental
Barbara Tuchman (4)
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
79 wisdom & wit about food
Benjamin Tucker (2)
Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
43 other wisdom & wit about equality
Elizabeth I (9)
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
232 quotes about being alone
Gene Tunney (2)
Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.
24 other quotes regarding fitness
Ivan Turgenev (3)
Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
320 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 quotes regarding forgiveness
Thomas Tusser (4)
At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.
420 wisdom & wit about being good
Mark Twain (98)
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
247 more quotes regarding aging