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

Throw no gift again at the giver's head; / Better is half a loaf than no bread. Pr.

Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it. Macb., v. 3.

Thu' nur das Rechte in deinen Sachen, / Das Andre wird sich von selber machen—In thy affairs do thou only what is right, the rest will follow of itself. Goethe.

Thursday come, and the week's gone. Pr.

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; 45 / Married in haste, we may repent at leisure. Congreve.

Thus the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. Ham., iii. 1.

Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. Twelfth Night, iv. 2.

Thus we play the fools with the time; and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds, and mock us. 2 Hen. IV., ii. 2.

Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother. Mer. of Venice, iii. 5.

Thus with the year / Seasons return; but not 50 to me returns / Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, / Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose, / Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; / But cloud instead, and ever-during dark / Surrounds me. Milton.