Thou Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.

Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee.

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

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.

Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.

Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.