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

Tout vient de Dieu—Everything comes from God. M.

Toute révélation d'un secret est la faute de celui qui l'a confié—The disclosure of a secret is always the fault of him who confided it. Fr.

Toutes les fois que je donne une place vacante, je fais cent mécontents, et un ingrat—Every time I appoint to a vacant post, I make a hundred discontented and one ungrateful. Louis XIV.

Towards great persons use respective boldness: / 45 That temper gives them theirs, and yet doth take / Nothing from thine. George Herbert.

Towers are measured by their shadows. Chinese Pr.

Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay. Johnson.

Traditions make up the reasonings of the simple, and serve to silence every inquiry. Goldsmith.

Traduttori, traditori—Translators, traitors. It. Pr.

Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving 50 too much importance to life and death. Chamfort.

Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille. Napoleon.