Thou Quotes

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.

Thou strange piece of wild nature!

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.

Answerest thou nothing? Behold how many things they witness against thee.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

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

The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.

Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize.

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.

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

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