THE SUPERLIST of FUN LINES and FAMOUS QUOTATIONS 10Th
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This file contains 5858 lines from my private collection beginning with the letter “T”. More to follow in due time. Enjoy! THE SUPERLIST OF FUN LINES AND FAMOUS QUOTATIONS 10th. revised edition Compiled by Christer Sundqvist 1987-2005 Christer Sundqvist Neptunuksenkatu 3 FIN-21600 PARAINEN FINLAND TEL: int +358-40-7529274 e-Mail: [email protected] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. Norman Vincent Peale Some fun lines and famous quotations 'T is but a part we see, and not a whole. Alexander Pope (1688-1744) 'T is pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; / A book 's a book, although there 's nothing in 't. Lord Byron (1788-1824) 'T is well to be merry and wise, / 'T is well to be honest and true; / 'T is well to be off with the old love / Before you are on with the new. Maturin Tact: Changing the subject without changing the mind. Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far. Jean Cocteau Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. Sarah Orne Jewett Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of many talents. William Gillmore Simms Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in. Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. Abraham Lincoln Tact is the ability to let the other man have your own way. Earl Lee Tact is the ability to tell a man he has an open mind when he has a hole in his head. Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do. Raymond Mortimer Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. Howard W. Newton Tact is the unsaid part of what you're thinking. Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves. Abraham Lincoln Tact: The art of saying nothing when there is nothing to say. Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you. Oliver Herford Tailors and writers must mind the fashion. Lyly & English Proverb Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) Take a look in your pockets: Did you do alright last night ? Take all things as they come, and be content. Davies Take an astronaut to launch. Take away my good name and take away my life. John Ray Take away the trials, take away the pain, take away the sorrow, take away the pain, take away the emptiness, take away the sorrow and you will find true love. Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. George S. Patton Take care and say this with presence of mind. Terence (185-159 B. C.) Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves. Dorothy Parker Take care of the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves. Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself. Take care that the face that looks out from the mirror in the morning is a pleasant face. You may not see it again during the day, but others will. Take care to be an economist in prosperity. There is no fear of your being one in adversity. Johann Georg von Zimmerman Take care which rut you choose; you'll be in it for the next ten years. Take charge of your attitude. Don't let someone else choose it for you. Take eloquence and wring its neck. Paul Verlaine Take everything in stride. Trample anyone who gets in your way. Take heed of an ox before, as an ass behind, and a monk on all sides. Spanish Proverb Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them. Jesus Christ Take it easy, we're in a hurry. Take life seriously? / Surely you jest! / I never jest / And don't call me Shirley. Chainsaw Bob Take me drunk, I'm home. John Quill Taylor Take most people, they're crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, and they're always talking about how many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand-new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that's even newer. I don't even like old cars. I mean they don't even interest me. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. J. D. Salinger Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man, but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. Rudyard Kipling Take no friends and leave no enemies. Take no more on you than you're able to bear. James Kelly Take note, theologians, that in your desire to make matters of faith out of propositions relating to the fixity of sun and earth you run the risk of eventually having to condemn as heretics those who would declare the earth to stand still and the sun to change position - eventually, I say, at such a time as it might be proved that the earth moves and the sun stands still. Galileo Galilei Take Nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time. Take pride in how far you have come, have faith in how far you can go. Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. Ovid (B.C. 43-18 A.D.) Take the bull by the hand and avoid mixed metaphors. Take the bull by the hand and avoid mixing metaphors. (William Safire's 14th Rule for Writers) Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. Jean Jacques Rousseau Take the first advice of a woman and not the second. Take the words 'I love you'. Now multiply them by infinity and take them to the depths of forever and you will still only have a glimpse of how much I really do love you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Jesus Christ Take thy thoughts to bed with thee, for the morning is wiser than the evening. Russian Proverb Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste. Benjamin Franklin Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. Andrew Jackson Take what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof. Take your fee while the patient is still in pain. John of Salisbury Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. Erica Jong Take your work seriously, but never yourself. Dame Margot Fonteyn Taking charge of your body can help you take charge of your life. And that power can help you go wherever you want to go, every single day. Cheryl Bridges Treworgy Taking something with a grain of salt may raise your blood pressure. Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book. Ralph Waldo Emerson Talent does what it can; genius does what it must; I do what I am paid to do. Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance. Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) Talk doesn't cook rice. Chinese Proverb Talk is cheap. Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand. Talk is cheap but it takes money to buy whisky. American Proverb Talk is cheap, unless you hire a lawyer. Talk is cheap - until you hire a lawyer. Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Talk of an angel and you'll hear his wings. Talk of nothing but business, and despatch that business quickly. Talk of the devil, and he is presently at your elbow. Giovanni Torriano Talk of the devil, and he is sure to appear. English Proverb Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. Euripidies (484-406 BC) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. Benjamin Disraeli Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him like living creatures. Henri Poincaré Talkers are not good doers. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Talkers are not good doers ; affection never was wasted. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Talking and eloquence are not the same thing: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. Ben Johnson Talking is easy, action is difficult. Spanish Proverb Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. Friedrich Nietzsche Talking pays no toll. George Herbert Tall men are like houses of four stories, wherein commonly the uppermost room is worst furnished. Howell Taste: a quality possessed by persons without originality or moral courage. George Bernard Shaw Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment. Jean Jacques Rousseau Taste is the feminine of genius. Edward FitzGerald Tastes differ.