Publius CorneliusTacitus
Unexpected terror frightens even the bravest.
Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
If we have to perish we ought to face the danger courageously.
The hatred of those most nearly related is the most inveterate.
Those in the highest ranks always distrust and hate those next in line.
Had he never been emperor his ability to rule would never have been doubted.
Robert Talisse
Democracy is the rejection of political hierarchy.
Democracy is the proposition that a stable and decent society can be maintained in the absence of lords, masters, sovereigns, superiors and kings.
Ghulam Hazrat Tanha (Herat's Director of Education)
Education is the factory that turns animals into human beings.
Torquato Tasso
No-one deserves the name of Creator but God and the poet.
Tao Te Ching
The more you know, the less you understand.
Rabindranath Tagore
Those are the richest who can forgo the most.
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
Death is not the extinguishing of the light, but the blowing out of the candle because the dawn has come.
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.
When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shall see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.
Talleyrand
Language was only given to man to conceal his thoughts.
No one can estimate just how much political nonsense has been avoided through lack of money.
Grace TameEvil thrives in silence.
Bert Leston Taylo
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
Peter Temple
Only the truly ignorant are truly happy. ('Truth')
You don't have to drown to be dead in Tasmania. (‘The Broken Shore')
William Temple
Church is the only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
Shirley Temple-Black
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
Tennyson
Authority forgets a dying king.
Let me lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
Not wholly in the busy world, not quite beyond it, blooms the garden that I love.
Mother Teresa
My banker is the Good Lord.
Nobody has a right to an excess of wealth.
Only if we share can we get rid of poverty.
To give of yourself is better than just to give.
God didn't create poverty. He only created us.
Every child is precious. Each one was made by God.
A happy heart comes from a heart that burns with love.
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
If I look at the mass I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.
It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
We can not do great things. We can only do little things with great love.
War is the result of politics, and that's why I won't have anything to do with it.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
For me the greatest fulfilment of human life is to die in peace and dignity; because that is eternity.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.
George J. Terwilliger III
There is a difference between being independent and flying solo.
Sylvain Tesson
France is a paradise inhabited by people who think they're in hell.
William Makepeace Thackeray
All is vanity, nothing is fair.
A person can't help their birth.
The best women are hypocrites. ('Vanity Fair')
Bravery never goes out of fashion.
Nobody does anything for nothing.
A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
People hate, as they love, unreasonably.
Revenge may be wicked, but it's natural.
I would rather make my name than inherit it.
A good housewife is of necessity a humbug. ('Vanity Fair')
The greatest tyrants over women are women.
The best I can wish you, my child, is a little misfortune. ('The Rose and the Ring')
What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is.
Next to the young I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
I never know to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of little children.
Long brooding over lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness.
If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
Good humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.
A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but handsome fool is irresistible.
The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.
There are two parties to a love transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.
There is no good living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal. It will always be ahead of you.
Dennis Thatcher
The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.
Margaret Thatcher
The unexpected always happens.
In politics there are no final victories.
Consensus is the negation of leadership.
I will not change just to court popularity.
There is no such thing as society - only individuals.
We will stand on principle or we will not stand at all.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
One’s life must matter. I cannot die washing up a teacup.
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
The true origin of German Angst is the agony of self-knowledge.
I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
In leading a great nation decency and assiduousness are not enough.
If you change the form, you are on the way to change the substance.
Tyrants rule by force and fear and are kept in check in the same way.
I don't mind how much my ministers talk - as long as they do what I say.
Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.
In war there is much to be said for magnanimity in victory. But not before victory.
The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
Personal relations must never become a substitute for hard-headed pursuit of national interests.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous. You get knocked down by traffic from both sides.
Nobody would remember the good Samaritan if he had only good intentions. He had money as well.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
The climate science is so clear, the need for international co-operation so obvious, that we should not be squabbling over who pays for it. (1990)
People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.
In a cold as in a hot war it pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time in the future you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong but love of money for its own sake. The spiritual dimension comes in deciding what one does with the wealth.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too'.
Theocritus
Faults become beauties in a lover's eye.
Paul Theroux
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
Stories have no beginning or end; they are continuous and ragged.
('The Consul's Files')
Thich Nhat Nanh
Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with truth.
Awareness is like the sun when it shines on things, they are transformed.
Jürgen Thiele
Every dream fulfilled is also a dream lost.
Adolphe Thiers
Moral epidemics, like other epidemics, last only a certain time.
Laura Tingle
True leaders only get to lead if they have followers they can persuade to follow.
True leadership should be about building consensus for change, giving people a map to follow, and bringing together
different parties to achieve an outcome.
(both from QUARTERLY ESSAYS 'Follow the Leader')
Alexis de Tocqueville
The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform itself.
Can it be believed that the democracy which has overthrown the feudal system and has vanquished kings will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists?
Dylan Thomas
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe.
Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Hunter S. Thompson (American Journalist)
Writing is the flip side of sex - it's only good when it's over.
In a democracy people usually get the government they deserve, and they deserve what they get.
Tommy Thompson
Every day, no matter what else you do, get dressed.
Henry David Thoreau
The heart is forever inexperienced.
Men have become the tools of their trade.
Be not simply good; be good for something.
In wilderness is the preservation of the world.
You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify!
There are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.
Man is but the place where I stand, and the prospect hence is infinite.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Thukydides
The price of freedom is courage.
Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power while the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must. ('History of the Peloponnesian War')
Greta Thunberg
We have to make the change, whether they like it or not.
I have learned you are never too small to maker a difference.
James Thurber
He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
Gloria von Thurn und Taxis
It took me until I was thirty to become a grown-up.
Tiggy (the dog)
If I like it, it's mine.
Oh how I wish I had my ovaries back!
Paul Tillich (German Theologian and Philosopher)
Wise are who are aware of the necessity and the limits of knowledge and who understand that love is greater than knowledge.
TIME Magazine
Sometimes a crisis is an opportunity - but sometimes it's just a crisis.
Mike Todd
Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.
Jürgen Todenhöfer
One has to engage people who are better than oneself.
Alvin Toffler
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
It is better to err on the side of daring than on the side of caution.
Whoever controls information and controls the internet will have the whole world.
The illiterate of the future are not those that cannot read or write. They are those that can not learn, unlearn, relearn.
You've got to think about "big things" while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
Leo Tolstoy
All ends well for those who can wait.
Where there’s a law there’s injustice. (War and Peace’)
To judge a country one has to look inside its prisons.
We cannot renew an illusion we have once seen through.
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness, and truth are absent. (‘War and Peace’)
Who wants to tell people the truth must first learn to tell the truth himself.
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
There is nothing stronger than those two: Patience and Time; they will do it all. ('War and Peace')
All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
Many try to figure out how to change mankind; but no-one tries to change himself.
Progress is nothing but progressively clearer answers to the basic questions of life.
It is better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre.
The eating of meat is the relic of extreme crudeness. The transition to vegetarianism is the first and natural result of enlightenment.
It takes only one step from murdering an animal to murdering a person. And the same goes for torturing animals and torturing people.
In finite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble-organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me.
Steve Toltz
Alexander Graham Bell, who pioneered phone sex.
Silence that has been commanded is still very noisy.
When you withdraw from the world, the world withdraws too.
People can inherit thoughts - they can even inherit whole minds.
Guilty men are not sentenced to death, they are sentenced to life.
You never get a complete victory; there are always strings attached.
True satisfaction can't exist as long as there's one itch left to scratch.
Memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us.
The past is always the worst thing happening to the present at any given time.
(all from ‘A Fraction of the Whole')
Lily Tomlin
We're all in this alone.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
I have always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.
I always thought somebody should do something about that … then I realised I am somebody.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Autumn is the spring of winter.
Richard Tracey
The hallmark of a civilised society is how it treats its most vulnerable people.
Joseph Traub
It's easier to create the future than to predict it.
Marvin Traub
It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.
Bastien Treptel
Hackers are amazing at breaking things, but they're not so good at putting things back together.
William Trevor
(on guilt:) I think that it can be something that rally renews people.
Trietschke:
Civilisation is soap.
Hermes Trimegistus
The divine is an infinite sphere - whose centre is everywhere - whose circumference is nowhere.
Anthony Trollope
They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.
The truth, I take it, is that we, all of us, soon adapt ourselves to the circumstances around us.
Leon Trotsky
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
Sol Trujillo (CEO Australian Communications Company Telstra)
You can be where you have to be without having to go there.
Harry S.Truman
If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!
It's like comparing Christ with Lenin.
(in1948 when comparing traditional with modern art)
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
The presidency is less an office than a performance
We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.
Whenever I make a bum decision, I go out and make another one.
There is no conversation so sweet as that of former political enemies.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
We must build a new world, a far better world -- one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.
To permit freedom of expression is primarily for the benefit of the majority, because it protects criticism, and criticism leads to progress.
Donald Trump
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
I've had bad luck with all my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn’t. The third gave me more children!
Christos Tsiolkas
Every emotion is legitimate. (‘The Slap’)
Love … was negotiation, the surrender of two individuals to the messy, banal domestic realities of sharing a life together.
(‘The Slap’)
Kurt Tucholsky
Enjoy life as long as you don't understand it.
It's great to be able to be silent with soneone.
The basis of healthy order is a large rubbish bin.
Readers are lucky, they can choose their writers.
The opposite of good is not bad, but good intention.
Your own dog never makes a noise - he simply barks.
Relax. Let go. Just trundle through the world - it's gorgeous.
There's a lot of different noises - but there is only one silence.
Experience is not inheritable - you must go through it yourself.
Enthusiasm for military exercises is simply PR for the next war.
The best way to improve one's condition is a good competition.
How little Johnny thinks the world is run that's exactly how it is.
The greatest spectacle to look at is the world. Go out and look at it.
Some people prefer to stand in first class than to sit down in third class.
When people see a hole, they want to fill it. But mostly they fall into it.
He who can see the skeleton in a gorgeous woman's body is a philosopher.
Tell me to whom you pray in good times, and I'll tell you how pious you are.
A German's fate: to queue before a teller. A German's ideal: to sit behind a teller.
To become popular you can stick to your own opinion. But to stay popular you can't.
Nothing needs more character than to stand in open opposition to your time and to say: No!
The advantage of intelligence is that you can play dumb. The reverse is somewhat more difficult.
People have two convictions: one when they are happy and one when they are down. The latter is called religion.
The difference between the stupid and the wise is that the stupid makes always the same mistakes, while the wise makes always new ones.
Sophie Tucker
I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.
Karen Tumulty
Opportunities don't always come to those who wait for them.
Malcolm Turnbull
Being sceptical about climate change is not unreasonable; doing nothing about it is reckless.
A curious feature of climate change denial is that it seems to be found overwhelmingly in the ranks of the old.
Volatility has to be our friend, not our enemy. The future is something we embrace, not proof ourselves against.
Ted Turner
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
In America, money is how we keep score.
If only I had a little humility, I would be perfect.
All my life people have said that I was not going to make it.
The happiest people are those who are contributing to society.
When money is your god, you never are going to be fulfilled, you are never going to be happy, because no matter how much you have, it is not enough.
Donald Tusk
There are times when you need to give time time.
Desmond Tutu
My humanity is bound up with yours, for we can only be human together.
Robin Tyler
If Michelangelo had been straight, the Sistine Chapel would have been wallpapered.
Mark Twain
Nothing hurries geology.
When in doubt, tell the truth.
Be good and you will be lonely.
It is easier to stay out than get out.
If you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
Familiarity breeds contempt; and children.
History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.
People who have heard me sing say I don't.
She is the sort of person who keeps a parrot.
All generalisations are false, including this one.
Some people are wise, and some are otherwise.
Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.
Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
There is nothing so annoying as a good example.
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.
No word is ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
A crank is a man with a new idea --- until it succeeds.
Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
Man is the only animal who blushes, or who needs to.
Obscurity and competence: that is the life worth living.
Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion.
Children have but little charity for one another's defects.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.
A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.
Let us so live that when we die even the undertaker will be sorry.
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.
The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
Everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it.
I find that principles have no real force, except when one is well fed.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me. But I think she enjoyed it.
The human race had only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
No one's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightening that does the work.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
The weakest of all weak things is the virtue which has not been tested in the fire.
I have suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.
My books are water. Those of the great geniuses are wine. - Everybody drinks water.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.
You know so much more about a country when you haven't seen it than when you have.
Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.
Heaven goes by favour; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.
We are discreet sheep. We wait to see how the drove is going, and then we go with the drove.
Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, the other assures it.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
The cat having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit on a hot stove lid again; but he won't sit on a cold stove lid, either.
I can teach anybody to get what they want out of life. The problem is I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
I have seen all the foreign countries I want to, except heaven and hell and I only have a vague curiosity about one of those.
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime - if not asked to lend money.
Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly - a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.
Sun Tzu (Chinese military tactician)
All warfare is based on deception.
Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence. ('Art of War')