Top 1200 Holier Than Thou Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.

O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: thou shalt not ration justice.

For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?

Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man Still to remember wrongs?

And thou shalt in thy daughter see, This picture, once, resembled thee.

Sleep, to the homeless thou art home; the friendless find in thee a friend

Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn.

Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.

In an evil hour thou bring'st her home. [You are marrying a shrew.]

O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.

O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung.

Truly thou art damned, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side.

The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, And say what thou seest yond.

If thou thy selfe canst doe it, attend no others helpe or hand.

To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness.

Woman! thou loveliest gift that here below Man can receive, or Providence bestow.

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

O Prosperina, For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's wagon; daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength--a malady Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one.

Where are the songs of Spring? Aye, where are they? Think not of them; thou has thy music too.

Thou didst, in strains of eloquence refin'd, Inflame the soul, and captivate the mind.

Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man, Dressed in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured His glassy essence--like an angry ape Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens, would all themselves laugh mortal.

Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.

Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom

Thou shalt be free As mountain winds: but then exactly do All points of my command.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'

Say, thou art mine; and ever, My love, as it begins, shall so persevere

Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee!

Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

Lord I do fear / Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year.

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor.

O beautiful, awful summer day, what hast thou given, what taken away?

Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!

If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher.

Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.

Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.

Where I am always thou art. Thy image lives within my heart.

Thou art the Sun of other days. They shine by giving back the rays.

'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' was this role that utterly fell into my lap and changed my life.

Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God.

Proportion thy charity to the strength of thine estate, lest God proportion thine estate to the weakness of thy charity. Let the lips of the poor be the trumpet of thy gift, lest in seeking applause, thou lose thy reward. Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand and a closed mouth.

If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.

So mayst thou live, dear! many years, In all the bliss that life endears

Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue.

Thou shalt learn The wisdom early to discern True beauty in utility.

Time! where didst thou those years inter Which I have seene decease?

Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.

Oh, bring again my heart's content, Thou Spirit of the Summer-time!

A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.

Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.

Be therefore thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be worthy to receive greater.

Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.

London, thou art the flower of cities all! Gemme of all joy, jasper of jocunditie.

Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?

If thou wouldst help others deal with them as though they were what they should be

In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might, Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight.

O Innocence, with laughing eyes! Thou art a cherub from the skies, A wanderer from heaven.

Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul.

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!