Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
Socrates
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Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hearer's stomach rise.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
What seest thou elseIn the dark backward and abysm of time?
William Shakespeare
Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.
William Shakespeare
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
William Shakespeare
Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.
William Shakespeare
Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.
William Shakespeare
Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.
William Shakespeare
Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither? Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.
William Shakespeare
While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.
William Shakespeare
Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest.
William Shakespeare
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
William Shakespeare
What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?
William Shakespeare
Thou art the Mars of malcontents.
William Shakespeare
This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare
Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.
William Shakespeare
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare
To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man.
William Shakespeare
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go.
William Shakespeare
For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies.
Laurence Sterne
Dost thou love life? Than do not squander time, for it is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.
Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
My Lord, my Lord! What hast Thou done, lately?
Woody Allen
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Alexander Pope
When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou would'st, when all have given him over, From death to life, thou might'st him yet recover.
Michael Drayton
Be thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be meant to receive greater.
Thomas a Kempis
Thou hast power only to act not over the result thereof. Act thou therefore without prospect of the result and without succcumbing to inaction (The translation follows thusKarmani ave adhikars te--you have the power to act onlyma phalesu kadachana--you do not have the power to influence the resultma karmaphal hetur bhoo--therefore you must act without t.
Bhagavad Gita
Love, thou art absolute sole Lord Of life and death.
Richard Crashaw
Thou art God, and I am God and all that groks is God.
Robert A. Heinlein
If I speak to thee in friendship's name, thou think'st I speak too coldly, if I mention love's devoted flame, thou say'st I speak too boldly.
Sir Thomas More
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
Democritus
Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.
William Penn
Death be not proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so,For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
John Donne
Thou shall not violate.
Jane Roberts
Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
Francis Quarles
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
George Moore
Nay, tempt me not to love again: There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet! But oh! this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one! Would I endure such pangs again.
Sir Thomas More
Hollywood amuses me. Holier-than-thou for the public and unholier-than-the-devil in reality.
Grace Kelly
All things by immortal power,Near and FarHiddenlyTo each other linked are,That thou canst not stir a flowerWithout troubling of a star.
Francis Thompson
Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.
Margaret Courtney
Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.
John Mitchell Mason
Why dost thou gaze upon the sky? O that I were yon spangled sphere! Then every star should be an eye, To wander o'er thy beauties here.
Sir Thomas More
Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?
Thomas a Kempis
It's a 'holier-than-thou' approach. It says everyone else has to do this, but I'm better, I'm smarter, so I don't have to.' I'm not buying that.
Thomas Marten
The principles now planted in thy bosom will grow, and one day reach maturity; and in that maturity thou wilt find thy heaven or thy hell.
David Thomas
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
Albert Guerard
Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?
John James Audubon
Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.
Christina G. Rossetti
Can Christ be in thy heart, and thou not know it? Can one king be dethroned and another crowned in thy soul, and thou hear no scuffle?
William Gurnall
Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.
Maxims of Ptahhotep
Judge not thy neighbor until thou art come into his place.
Hebrew Proverb
Italia! Oh Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty.
Lord Byron
Count no woman wise, until thou hast received a letter from her hand; but love none thou hast not seen face to face, for she who is not foolish on paper is worth knowing.
Frank Gelett Burgess
Take special care that thou never trust any friend or servant with any matter that may endanger thine estate; for so shalt thou make thyself a bond-slave to him that thou trustest, and leave thyself always to his mercy.
Walter Raleigh, Sr.
February, fill the dyke with what thou dost like.
Thomas Tusser
If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper.
Francis Quarles
But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.
Beilby Porteus
However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant.
Muslih uddin Sadi
O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
Barry Cornwall
Rose-cheeked Laura, come; / Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty's / Silent music, either other/ Sweetly gracing.
Thomas Campion
Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend / With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. / Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must / Disappointment all I endeavour end?
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Since that all things thou wouldst praise / Beauty took from those who loved them / In other days.
Walter De La Mare
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let them bestow on every airth a limb; Then open all my veins, that I may swim To thee, my Maker! in that crimson lake; Then place my parboiled head upon a stake - Scatter my ashes - strew them in the air; - Lord! since thou know'st where all these.
James Graham
We think this (the joke release) is typical of Beers' campaign, which is geared toward misleading the public. Bob Beers claims to be a holier-than-thou fiscal conservative, but as a legislator, he created the government spending he's complaining about.
Robert Uithoven
I read the label underneath, That telleth me whereto I must; I see the sentence eke that saith 'Remember, man, that thou art dust!' But yet, alas, but seldom I Do think indeed that I must die - My ancestors are turned to clay, And many of my mates ar.
Robert Southwell
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, / No winter in thy year.
John Logan
When thou has truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament.
Hannah Moore
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;/ When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. / Mother's wag, pretty boy, / Father's sorrow, father's joy.
Dr. Robert Greene
Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.
Sir Walter Raleigh
He that is thy friend indeed, he will help thee in thy need: if thou sorrow, he will weep; if you wake, he cannot sleep; thus of every grief in heart he with thee doth bear a part.
Richard Barnfield
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, / No winter in thy year!
Michael Bruce
Lord, I am coming as fast as I can: I know I must pass through the shadow of death before I can come to Thee; but it is but umbra mortis, a mere shadow of death... Thou, by thy merits and passion, hath broken through the jaws of death.
William Laud
Why this is hell, nor am I out of it. Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God and tasted the eternal joy of heaven, am not tormented with ten thousand hells in being deprived of everlasting bliss?
Christopher Marlowe
Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When its so lucrative to cheat.
Arthur Hugh Clough
Tho' lost to sight, to mem'ry dear/ Thou ever wilt remain.
George Linley
Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually. Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come.
Christopher Marlowe
Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse.
Francis Quarles
...Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.
Saint Augustine
Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.
Sir Richard Francis Burton
Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.
Guru Nanak
Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.
Angelina Grimke
So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.
Izaak Walton
Thou shalt not merge religion and government. Promoting religion is the job of houses of worship, not government. Our legal system especially must avoid even the appearance of bias on the basis of religion.
Barry Lynn
Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.
Sir Thomas Browne
They're real guys, guys you can just go up to and talk to, ... They're not holier than thou. They're there for a reason, and they're going to get respect even though a lot of teams don't give them that much respect. ... My biggest thing is winning, and they win.
Ben Chandler
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Aleister Crowley
Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
Christopher Marlowe
When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
William Blake
Thou art a Man, God is no more. Thy own humanity learn to adore.
William Blake
I say, thou mad March hare.
John Skelton
He said not 'Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased'; but he said, 'Thou shalt not be overcome.'
Julian of Norwich
We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.
Philip Pullman
Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high; thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food; our house, our parent, and our nurse.
Isaac Watts
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
Marcus Aurelius
How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate; and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this.
Lord Byron
The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing Made of a quill from an angel's wing.
Henry Constable
O Brother, Where Art Thou? I was really impressed hearing Meryl Streep belting out these songs.
Bob Berney
Show us Thy ways oh Lord; teach us Thy ways to walk faithfully; teach us, O Lord, how to walk; lead us in Thy Truth and holiness; for thou art the God of our salvation.
William Pennington
Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered.
H. P. Blavatsky
If thou wilt ease thine heart / Of love and all its smart, / Then sleep, dear, sleep.
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
'Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.'
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.
Francis Quarles
REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words. 'More dear than all my bosom knows, O thou Whose 'lips are sealed' and will not disavow!' So sang the blithe reporter-man as grew Beneath his hand the leg-long 'interview.' Barson Maith.
Ambrose Bierce
O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.
Dante Alighieri
When thou must home to shades of underground, / And there arrived, a new admirèd guest, / The beauteous spirits do engirt thee round, / White Iope, blithe Helen, and the rest.
Thomas Campion
Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol Ben Judah
My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot hath many changes; every day Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play.
Francis Quarles
Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.
Maimonides
Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. A land wherein to rest.
Mary Elizabeth Hewitt
The fear is that you'll have some hearings and then they will degenerate into partisan bickering and name-calling, with members of Congress claiming a holier-than-thou approach and possibly the public might start to laugh at them ... And that would probably further turn off voters and increase the cynicism and therefore nothing would change.
Kent Cooper
HOPE, n. Desire and expectation rolled into one. Delicious Hope! when naught to man it left -- Of fortune destitute, of friends bereft; When even his dog deserts him, and his goat With tranquil disaffection chews his coat While yet it hangs upon his back; then thou, The star far-flaming on thine angel brow, Descendest, radiant, from the skies to hint Th.
Ambrose Bierce
O God, Thou art a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in Thy being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.
George Gillespie
Wit thou well that I will notlive long after thy days.
Sir Thomas Malory
Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.
Sir William Drummond
Oh, treacherous night! thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.
Aaron Hill
A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship / a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.
Anthony Storr
Thou too art mortal.
Roman Proverb
Thou shall not kill. Thou shall not commit adultery. Don't eat pork.I'm sorry, what was that last one?? Don't eat pork. God has spoken.Is that the word of God or is that pigs trying to outsmart everybody?
Jon Stewart
All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.
Robert Owen
Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing.
Austin Dobson
Ever reviled, accursed, ne'er understood, Thou art the grisly terror of our age.
John Henry Mackay
Is there something that says, Thou shall not use (the management's) method of testing'? No, but that's what this lawsuit is about.
Joe Faraldo
Work and thou wilt bless the dayEre the toil be done;They that work not cannot pray,Cannot feel the sun.
John Sullivan Dwight
Thou blossom bright with autumn dew,And colored with the heaven's own blue. . . .
William Cullen Bryant
Thou ill-form,d offspring of my feeble brain . . .
Anne Bradstreet
If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.
Martin Fraquhar Tupper
Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
Omar Khayyam
A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.
Edward Fitzgerald
Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.
Elizabeth Smart
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, / A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou / Beside me singing in the Wilderness- / And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
Edward Fitzgerald
Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more.
Edward Young
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