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

Tuum est—It is thine. M.

'Twas doing nothing was his curse—/ Is there a vice can plague us worse? Hannah More.

'Twas strange, 'twas passing strange, / 'Twas pitiful; 'twas wondrous pitiful. Othello, i. 3.

Twenty people can gain money for one who 30 can use it; and the vital question for individuals and for nations, is never "how much do they make," but "to what purpose do they spend." Ruskin.

'Twere all as good to ease one beast of grief, / As sit and watch the sorrows of the world / In yonder caverns with the priests who pray. Sir Edwin Arnold.

Twist ye, twine ye! even so, / Mingle shades of joy and woe, / Hope, and fear, and peace, and strife, / In the thread of human life. Scott.

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labour. Bible.

Two dogs over one bone seldom agree. Pr.

Two dogs strive for a bone, and a third runs 35 away with it. Pr.

Two gifts are indispensable to the dramatic poet; one is the power of forgetting himself, the other is the power of remembering his characters. Stoddart.