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

Trees and fields tell me nothing; men are my teachers. Plato.

Tremblez, tyrans; vous êtes immortels—Tremble, ye tyrants; ye cannot die. Delille.

Tria juncta in uno—Three joined in one. M.

Tribulation will not hurt you unless it does—what, 20 alas! it too often does—unless it hardens you, and makes you sour and narrow and sceptical. Chapin.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that have not wit enough to be honest. Ben. Franklin.

Trifles light as air / Are to the jealous confirmations strong / As proofs of holy writ. Othello, iii. 3.

Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle. Michael Angelo.

Trifles make up the happiness or misery of mortal life. Alex. Smith.

Trifles themselves are elegant in him. Pope. 25

Trifles unconsciously bias us for or against a person from the very beginning. Schopenhauer.