Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. - Benjamin Franklin
Tis education forms the common mind;Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. - Alexander Pope
Tis the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle
Tis Fate that flings the dice,And as she flingsOf kings makes peasants,And of peasants kings. - John Dryden
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. - Benjamin Franklin
Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone,All just supply, and all relation;Prince, subject, father, son, are things forgot,For every man alone thinks he hath gotTo be a phoenix, and that then can beNone of that kind, of which he is, but he. - John Donne
Tis the advisor who suffers from bad advice. - Anonymous
Tis the witching hour of night, Or bed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen For what listen they? - John Keats
Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath,From the blossom of health to the paleness of death,From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud-Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud? - William Knox
Sound.Noisethe air employs.Melodies sweet.Tweet, tweet, tweet.Soft. Loud.A roaring crowd.Cluck. Caw. Crow.Tet, tet. Tis, tis.Guttural growl.Harrowing howl.Drip, drip, drip.Tap, tap, tap.Moan and groan.Endless drone.Ding, dang, dong.A church bell song.Vibrations in my earto hear.Sound. - Richelle E. Goodrich
Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship - Thomas Fuller
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act. - Sallust
Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control. - Democritus
Tis the good reader that makes the good book. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create! - John Godfrey Saxe
Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid. - Publilius Syrus
Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity. - Cato the Elder
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
Tis all a Checkerboard of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and stays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. - Edward FitzGerald