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

Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. Rom. and Jul., ii. 6.

Tooth of time. Meas. for Meas., v. 1. 50

Top and bottom teeth sometimes come into awkward collision. Ch. Pr.

[Greek: to prepon]—That which is becoming or decorous.

Torrens dicendi copia multis / Et sua mortifera est facundia—To many a torrent flow of speech and their own eloquence is fatal. Juv.

Toss'd on a sea of troubles, soul, my soul, / Thyself do thou control; / And to the weapons of advancing foes / A stubborn breast oppose. Archilochus.

Tot capita, tot sensus—So many heads, so many 55 opinions. Ter.

Tot homines, quot sententiæ—So many men, so many minds.

Tot rami quot arbores—So many branches, so many trees. M.

Tota in minimis existit natura—The whole of nature exists in the very smallest things. Quoted by Emerson.