Thy Quotes

O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Philosophically, what I have learned is to thy own self be true. That is the biggest lesson of all. Relax; music is fun. To many people take it to seriously because of the money involved.

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.

Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.

By the God of thy Father who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship.

I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, - as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

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.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow.

I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.

For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.