Thou Quotes (page 16)

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• night
• soul
• ifs

Sun of my soul! Thou Saviour dear, It is not night if Thou be near. John Keble

• understanding
• tears
• old

With heart at rest I climbed the citadel's. Steep height, and saw the city as from a tower, Hospital, brothel, prison, and such hells, Where evil comes up softly like a flower. Thou knowest, O Satan, patron of my pain, Not for vain tears I went up at that hour; But like an old sad faithful lecher, fain. To drink delight of that enormous trull. Whose hellish beauty makes me young again. Whether thou sleep, with heavy vapors full, Sodden with day, or, new appareled, stand. In gold-laced veils... Charles Baudelaire

• life
• wonder
• wonderful

But poor old Dim kept looking up at the stars and planets and the Luna with his rot wide open like a kid who'd never viddied any such thing before, and he said: "What's on them, I wonder. What would be up there on things like that?" I nudged him hard, saying: "Come, gloopy bastard as thou art. Think thou not on them. There'll be life like down here most likely, with some getting knifed and others doing the knifing. Anthony Burgess

• dark
• look
• earth

Hadst thou sought the whole earth over," said he, looking darkly at the clergyman, "there was no place so secret- no high place nor lowly place, where thou couldst have escaped me,- save on this very scaffold! Nathaniel Hawthorne

• grace
• soon
• gracefully

The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it. William Gurnall

• art
• jokes
• salt

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. Oliver Goldsmith

• needed
• necessity
• necessities

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities. Benjamin Franklin

• hope
• fear
• hoped

Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all. Algernon Charles Swinburne

• money
• use
• ifs

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not. Horace

• weaknesses
• weakness
• never

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. William Penn

• mind
• personality
• friends

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self. William Penn

• wine
• devil
• invisibility

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil. William Shakespeare

• bored
• rightfully
• right

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut. Billy Wilder

• miracle
• forever
• seem

Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more. Edward Young

• dog
• comforting
• little

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail. Martin Luther