Tel vous semble applaudir, qui vous raille et 35 vous joue; / Aimez qu'on vous conseille, et non pas qu'on vous loue—Such a one seems to applaud, while he is really ridiculing you; attach yourself to those who advise you rather than to those who praise. Boileau.
Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon. Bible.
"Tell me how you bear so blandly the assuming ways of wild young people?" Truly they would be unbearable if I had not also been unbearable myself as well. Goethe.
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. Longfellow.
Tell me what you like, and I will tell you what you are. Ruskin.
Tell me where is fancy bred, / Or in the heart, 40 or in the head? / How begot, how nourishéd? / It is engender'd in the eyes, / With gazing fed. Mer. of Venice, iii. 2.
Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are; if I know what it is with which you occupy yourself, I know what you may become. Goethe.
Tell the truth and shame the devil. 1 Henry IV., iii. 1.
Telum imbelle sine ictu—A feeble dart thrown without effect. Virg.
Temeritas est florentis ætatis, prudentia senescentis—Rashness belongs to youth, prudence to old age. Cic.