Tis Quotes (page 2)

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• art
• fish
• wellness

Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been poor-John. William Shakespeare

• good
• confidence
• book

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• hope
• serenity
• rebel

Tis true my garments threadbare are, And sorry poor I seem; But inly I am richer far. Than any poet's dream. For I've a hidden life no one. Can ever hope to see; A sacred sanctuary none. May share with me. Aloof I stand from out the strife, Within my heart a song; By virtue of my inner life. I to myself belong. Against man-ruling I rebel, Yet do not fear defeat, For to my secret citadel. I may retreat. Oh you who have an inner life. Beyond this dismal day. With wars and evil rumours rife, Go... Robert W. Service

• time
• fear
• kiss

Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss. William Shakespeare

• hand
• manly
• art

Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part. Belonging to a man. O, be some other name! What's in a name? that which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes. Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, And for that name which is no part of thee. Take all myself. William Shakespeare

• star
• tears
• tess

Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it, Tess?" murmured Abraham through his tears. Thomas Hardy

• love
• determination
• loved

Tis what i love determines how i love George Eliot

• then
• armed
• scratches

Tis but a scratch!"A scratch? Your arm's off!"No it isn't."Then what's that?"Oh come on, pansy! Graham Chapman

• men
• fond
• very

Tis very strange men should be so fond of being wickeder than they are. Daniel Defoe

• alone
• city
• may

...Tis the center to which all gravitates. One finds no rest elswhere than here. There may be other cities that please us for a while, but Rome alone completely satisfies. It becomes to all a second native land by predilection, and not by accident of birth alone. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• world
• scratching
• prefer

Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. David Hume

• ourselves
• thus
• within

Tis within ourselves that we are thus or thus William Shakespeare

• passion
• mindfulness
• confidence

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• true
• truthfully
• stranger than fiction

Tis strange - but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction; George Byron

• light
• world
• bed

TIS the year's midnight, and it is the day's, Lucy's, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks ; The sun is spent, and now his flasks Send forth light squibs, no constant rays ; The world's whole sap is sunk ; The general balm th' hydroptic earth hath drunk, Whither, as to the bed's-feet, life is shrunk, Dead and interr'd ; yet all these seem to laugh, Compared with me, who am their epitaph. John Donne