Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Their only labour was to kill the time, / And labour dire it is, and weary woe. Thomson.

Their own will to all men, all their will to women. Gael. Pr.

Their strength is to sit still. Bible.

Theirs not to make reply, / Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do or die. Tennyson.

Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it. 10 George Eliot.

Then draw we nearer day by day, / Each to his brethren, all to God; / Let the world take us as she may, / We must not change our road. Keble.

Then fare-ye-weel, auld Nickle Ben, / Oh wad ye tak' a thought and men', / Ye aiblins (perhaps) might—I dinna ken, / Still hae a stake;/ I'm wae to think upon yon den / E'en for your sake. Burns.

Then gently scan your brother man, / Still gentler sister woman; / Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, / To step aside is human. Burns.

Then in the strife the youth puts forth his powers, / Knows what he is, and feels himself a man. Goethe.

Then let us pray that come it may, / As come 15 it will for a' that, / That sense an' worth, o'er a' the earth, / May bear the gree and a' that. Burns.