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Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel; Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle.
LORD GEORGE LYTTLETON Why, then 'tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE . . where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
THOMAS GRAY Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
THOMAS GRAY Nay, my lords, ceremony was but devised at first To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
THOMAS GRAY 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
ALEXANDER POPE Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Tis not the storms and heavy tides, that push us to and fro, "tis the course we steer her by that de...
STEPHEN ECKFIELD Love builds bridges where there are none.
R. H. DELANEY 'Tis merry in hall Where beards wag all. - Thomas Tusser,
THOMAS TUSSER 'Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
ROBERT POLLOK I look for ghosts; but none will force Their way to me; 'tis falsely said That even there was ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Where he falls short, 'tis Nature's fault alone;/ Where he succeeds, the merit's all his own.
CHARLES CHURCHILL It is a troublesome thing, Halford, this susceptibility to affronts where none are intended.
ANNE BRONTë Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
ALEXANDER POPE No symbols where none intended.
SAMUEL BECKETT In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain
PHAEDRUS How are you expected to love life, if life does not love you in return.All we can do is clear away t...
GARY F EVANS... Prayer is a path where there is none.
NOAH BENSHEA Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt there truth is--'tis her shadow.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.
THOMAS DISCH 'Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!
J.G. SAXE Madam, I swear I use no art at all. That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity, And pity '...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain ...
AUGUSTUS HARE There is no need to create conflict where there is none.
ALICE LANDRY What is Friendship when complete? 'Tis to share all joy and grief; 'Tis to lend all due relief From ...
ANNE FINCH What is Friendship when complete?'Tis to share all joy and grief; 'Tis to lend all due relief From t...
ANNE FINCH Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are m...
GEORGE ELIOT Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are m...
GEORGE ELIOT 'Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY I am lord of myself, accountable to none.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I am lord of myself, accountable to none
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess
JOHN SELDEN Ferryman ho! In the night so black Hark to the clank of iron; 'Tis heroes of the Yser, ...
LUCIEN BOYER He was not born to shame. Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit; For 'tis a throne where honor...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Where There Is Beauty, I Take It... Where There Is None, I Make It...
S.TIMOTHY SINCLAIR Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain a...
GEORGE ELIOT 'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU None of us can choose where we shall love...
SUSAN KAY None of us can chose where we will love.
SUSAN KAY In his field - where edge, zip and instant impact are sine qua non - Kidd is second to none.
JOHN UPDIKE 'For what we are about to receive, Oh Lord 'tis Thee we thank,' said the cannibal as he cut a slice ...
E. Y. HARBURG As an entrepreneur, you tend to see the opportunities where others see none.
NAVEEN JAIN 'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; The loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.
PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA What is Friendship when complete?
'Tis to share all joy and grief;
'Tis to lend all due rel...
ANNE FINCH Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and es...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE 'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.
OVID 'Tis impious in a good man to be sad.
EDWARD YOUNG None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
THURGOOD MARSHALL Of all sciences there is none, where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.
DAVID HUME We should focus more on creating a solution where there is none
SOTONYE ANGA 'Tis not amiss, ere ye're giv'n o'er, To try one desp'rate med'cine more; For where your case ...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) None of us are opposed to keeping the school where it is. But we'll have some obstacles to work thro...
FRANK BRUNNER 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
JOHN WEBSTER To me, detective stories are a great solace, a sort of mental knitting, where it doesn't matter if y...
RUPERT HART-DAVIS Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 'Tis not a life, 'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER The fundamentals have become superfluous. None of the metals would be where they are today without t...
ANGUS MACMILLAN Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: ...
GEORGE CRABBE 'Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite Makes eating a delight
JOHN SUCKLING 'Tis not for mortals always to be blest.
JOHN ARMSTRONG Tis better, sir, to be brief than tedious.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis vain to flee; till gentle Mercy show Her better eye, the farther off we go, The swing of ...
FRANCIS QUARLES Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
JOHN HARINGTON Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
JOHN HARINGTON Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
ELIZABETH HARDWICK 'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest p...
ABRAHAM COWLEY 'Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.
GEORGE HERBERT We wouldn't be where we're at now (without him). None of you all would be talking to me. We probably...
ALAN ZEMAITIS If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.
PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA 'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains . . . But it can put mount...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, t...
CHARLES DICKENS Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round
LEWIS CARROLL Do not give hope where there is none.
Do not turn away hope where there is seldom some.
ROSEN TOPUZOV people have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize their pets, to ascribe human perceptions and inte...
DEAN KOONTZ Tis hatched and shall be so
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love of God and people will pave roads where there once were none.
SHANNON L. ALDER What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.
MARK TWAIN Though this may be play to you, 'Tis death to us.
SIR ROGER L'ESTRANGE 'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Emperors are vain and useless things.
SCOTT WESTERFELD 'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
WINSTON CHURCHILL He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.
LEWIS CARROLL 'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou&#...
MARY ASTELL 'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak; That Latin was no more di...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) View the whole scene, with critic judgment scan, And then deny him merit if you can. Where he ...
CHARLES CHURCHILL He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
WINSTON CHURCHILL An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it ou...
RENE DESCARTES An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it ou...
MICHEL DE SAINT-PIERRE An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it ...
MICHEL DE SAINT-PIERRE Tis a wicked, wicked world when men take it upon themselves to be God.
CRISTABEL MICHAELS 'Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases Are grown so catching.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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LORD ACTON Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi...
LORD ACTON A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
LORD CHESTERFIELD He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all th...
LORD BYRON