Tis Quotes (page 6)

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• eyes
• look
• willed

'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. Walter Scott

• friendship
• respect
• respect her

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. Charles Lamb

• him
• manly
• which

'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do. Robert Browning

• men
• taking
• them

'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them. David Borenstein

• end
• common
• commoner

'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end. Ben Jonson

• pain
• lies
• loss

'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell. Pedro Calderon de la Barca

• great
• value
• greatness

'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth. Mary Astell

• growing old
• manly
• old

'Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old. Alcaeus

• true
• mad
• pity

That he's mad, 'tis true,'tis true 'tis pity, And pity 'tis, 'tis true William Shakespeare

• world
• bright
• life

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round! Charles Dickens

• acceptance
• war
• society

Yong is the outer manifestation of something. Ti is the underlying essence. Technology is a yong associated with a particular ti that is ... Western, and completely alien to us [the Chinese]. For centuries, since the time of the Opium Wars, we have struggled to absorb the yong of technology without importing the Western ti. But it has been impossible. Just as our ancestors could not open our ports to the West without accepting the poison of opium, we could not open our lives to Western... Neal Stephenson

• enough is enough
• good
• old

Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate you drink your beer. But oh, good Lord, the verse you make, It gives a chap the belly-ache. The cow, the old cow, she is dead; It sleeps well, the horned head; We poor lads, 'tis our turn now. To hear such tunes as killed the cow. Pretty friendship 'tis to rhyme. Your friends to death before their time. Moping melancholy mad: Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad. A. E. Housman

• wise man
• wise
• true

When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say,`Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.'But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again,`The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain;'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.'And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true. A. E. Housman

• hand
• nature
• work

Here must thou be, O man, Strength to thyself — no helper hast thou here — Here keepest thou thy individual state: No other can divide with thee this work, No secondary hand can intervene To fashion this ability. 'Tis thine, The prime and vital principle is thine In the recesses of thy nature, far From any reach of outward fellowship, Else 'tis not thine at all. William Wordsworth

• great
• destiny
• she

Haply for I am black, And have not those soft parts of conversation That chamberers have; or for I am declined Into the vale of years—yet that’s not much— She’s gone. I am abused, and my relief Must be to loathe her. O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad And live upon the vapor of a dungeon Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others’ uses. Yet ’tis the plague of great ones; Prerogatived are they less than... William Shakespeare