Tis Quotes

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

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

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.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

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

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

'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.

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

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

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.

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?

'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.

A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.

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

Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

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.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.

Let all the learned say what they can, 'Tis ready money makes the man.