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

'Tis always a delightful thing to see the human understanding following its imprescriptible rights in spite of all hindrances, and hurrying eagerly towards the utmost possible agreement between ideas and objects. Goethe.

'Tis an economy of time to read old and famed books. Emerson.

'Tis an old maxim in the schools / That flattery's 50 the food of fools; / Yet now and then your men of wit / Will condescend to take a bit. Swift.

'Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; / 'Tis virtue that doth make them most admired; / 'Tis government that makes them seem divine. 3 Hen. VI., i. 4.

'Tis better to be lowly born, / And range with humble livers in content, / Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, / And wear a golden sorrow. Hen. VIII., ii. 2.

'Tis better to cry over your goods than after them. Pr.

'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all. Tennyson.

'Tis but a base, ignoble mind / That mounts no higher than a bird can soar. 2 Hen. VI., ii. 1.

'Tis but lame kindness that does its work by halves. Blair.

'Tis, by comparison, an easy task / Earth to despise; but to converse with heaven—/ This is not easy. Wordsworth.