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

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and get sensible men to read it, are the three great difficulties in authorship. Colton.

To yield my breath, / Life's purpose unfulfilled! 10 this is thy sting, O Death. Sir Noel Paton.

To yourself be critic most severe. Dryden.

Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do. Emerson.

Tocher's nae word in a true lover's parle. Burns.

Todte Hunde beissen nicht—Dead dogs don't bite. Ger. Pr.

[Greek: to êthos ethos esti polychronion]—Character is 15 simply prolonged habit. Plutarch.

Toga virilis—The manly robe.

[Greek: to gar trephon me, tout' egô krinô theon]—What maintains me in life, that I regard as God. (?)

[Greek: to gar perissa prassein ouk echei noun oudena]—Doing more than one is able for argues a want of intelligence. (?)