A Quote by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
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In politics, you're safest when you're saying as little as possible. You're safest when you've got your talking points and you stick to them like glue, even if it means repeating yourself over and over.
Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.
As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room
Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony -- but most of them are merely poor dodgers.
Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long, 'Tis not with me exactly so; But 'tis so in the song. My wants are many, and, if told, Would muster many a score; And were each wish a mint of gold, I still should long for more.
Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!
The reason a person is in a particular state of mind is primarily because of attraction and aversion. Attraction and aversion cause us to format a mental or intellectual program.
'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
I have little taste for fashionable dissipations, cards, and dancing; the theatre and tea parties are my aversion, and I look with little envy on those who find their enjoyment in such transitory delights, if delights they may be called.
Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.
I associate a family as the safest place in the world. So when it comes to things that scare me, introducing instability and tension into where you're supposed to be the safest really strikes a chord with me.
In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion.
When any opinion leads us into absurdities, 'tis certainly false; but 'tis not certain an opinion is false, because 'tis of dangerous consequence.
Tis the gift to be gentle, ’tis the gift to be fair, ’Tis the gift to wake and breathe the morning air, To walk every day in the path that we choose, Is the gift that we pray we will never never lose.
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