Tis Quotes

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

Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.

'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

'Tis always morning somewhere in the world.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

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

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.

'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.

For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

Before you act, consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?

For tis not in mere death that men die most.

'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

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

It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.

Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.

'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.

I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.