Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. Votes: 4
Charles LambTis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue. Votes: 4
Thomas CampbellThat is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. Votes: 4
James M. BarrieTis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things. Votes: 3
Michel de MontaigneTis the strumpet's plague To beguile many, and be beguiled by one. Votes: 3
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife. Votes: 3
William ShakespeareTis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him. Votes: 3
Francois de La RochefoucauldTis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man. Votes: 3
Joseph AddisonTis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. Votes: 3
Benjamin FranklinTis Chastity, my brother, Chastity She that has that, is clad in complete steel Votes: 3
John MiltonOf all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget. Votes: 3
Alexander PopeTis said, fantastic ocean doth enfold The likeness of whate'er on land is seen. Votes: 3
William Wordsworth'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn! Votes: 3
Ezra PoundTis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense. Votes: 3
Alexander PopeWhat nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows. Votes: 3
Alexander PopeTis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected. Votes: 3
Charles LambLadies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe. Votes: 3
Alexander PopeTis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly. Votes: 3
Elizabeth GilbertTis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion. Votes: 3
Michel de MontaigneTis toil's reward, that sweetens industry, As love inspires with strength the enraptur'd thrush. Votes: 3
Ebenezer ElliottTis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel. Votes: 3
William Makepeace Thackeray'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel. Votes: 3
William Makepeace ThackerayTis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar. Votes: 3
William ShakespeareThough old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best. Votes: 3
James Russell LowellTis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. Votes: 3
Michel de MontaigneTis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt. Votes: 3
Abraham Lincoln'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. Votes: 3
Michel de Montaigne'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury. Votes: 3
Benjamin FranklinMan may his fate foresee, but not prevent. 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise. Votes: 3
John WebsterTis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy. Votes: 3
William Shakespeare'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined. Votes: 3
Alexander PopeTis long ere time can mitigate your grief; To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief. Votes: 3
Hugo GrotiusAh, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants. Votes: 3
Lord ByronTis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life. Votes: 3
Ella Wheeler Wilcox'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life. Votes: 3
Ella Wheeler WilcoxTis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end. Votes: 3
Robert Herrick'Tis a month before the month of May, And the spring comes slowly up this way. Votes: 3
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeTis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another. Votes: 3
Alexander PopeTis hard to find a whole age to imitate, or what century to propose for example. Votes: 3
Thomas BrowneIs that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year. Votes: 3
Alexander PopeTis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd. Votes: 3
Alexander PopeAs men do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, After supper. 'Tis their exercise. Votes: 3
Francis BeaumontTis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon. Votes: 3
Napoleon BonaparteTis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend. Votes: 3
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of RoscommonSuperiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn. Votes: 3
Emily DickinsonTis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. Votes: 3
William ShakespeareThen, everlasting Love , restrain thy will; 'Tis god -like to have power, but not to kill. Votes: 3
John FletcherMadelyne, we're married now. 'Tis a usual occurrence to bed one's wife on the wedding night. Votes: 3
Julie GarwoodTis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. Votes: 3
Alexander Pope'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. Votes: 3
Alexander PopeThe Morning after Woe- Tis frequently the Way- Surpasses all that rose before- For utter Jubilee-. Votes: 3
Emily Dickinson'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of. Votes: 3
William ShakespeareTis better to hit an air ball, than to force a note that don't wanna come out. Votes: 3
Nicholas PaytonTo love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below! Votes: 3
Edmund WallerTo love is to believe, to hope, to know; 'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below! Votes: 3
Edmund WallerTis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it. Votes: 3
Mark TwainTis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes? Votes: 3
John HeywoodThat is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. Votes: 3
James M. BarrieTis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. Votes: 3
Benjamin FranklinCities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man. Votes: 3
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works. Votes: 3
Ralph Waldo EmersonTis emblematic, the rose of youth and health soon fades when watered by the tear of affliction. Votes: 3
Susanna Rowson'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. Votes: 3
Alexander PopeTis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one. Votes: 3
Laurence SterneTis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one. Votes: 3
Laurence Sterne'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one. Votes: 3
Laurence SterneTis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. Votes: 3
Lord Byron'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. Votes: 3
Lord ByronTis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell. Votes: 3
Pedro Calderon de la BarcaTis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true. Votes: 3
William ShakespeareTis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult. Votes: 3
William Makepeace ThackerayWhat is a church?ÂOur honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells. Votes: 3
George CrabbeTis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white. Votes: 3
John BrownTis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create! Votes: 3
John Godfrey SaxeIf there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me. Votes: 3
William CongreveTis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't. Votes: 3
Lord ByronTis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings. Votes: 3
John Dryden'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't. Votes: 3
Lord ByronI see a redness suddenly come Into the evening's anxious breast-- 'Tis the wound of love goes home! Votes: 3
D. H. LawrenceI am a connoisseur of fine irony. 'Tis a bit like fine wine, but it has a better bite. Votes: 3
Lynn KurlandTis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love! Votes: 3
Lewis CarrollTis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly. Votes: 3
Rumi'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms. Votes: 3
Ralph Waldo EmersonMy guitar, I sing of thee 'Tis with thee that I decoy And ensnare enchantingly the ladies I enjoy. Votes: 3
Pierre de RonsardTis never the place, but the people one shares it with who are the cause of our happiest memories. Votes: 3
Susanna KearsleyTis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion. Votes: 3
John BarthTis the voice of the sluggard I heard him complain,You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again. Votes: 3
Isaac WattsShall I tell you what makes love so dangerous? 'Tis the too high idea we are apt to form of it. Votes: 3
Ninon de L'EnclosI do not wish to shed a drop of blood, but 'I must fight the course.' Tis all that's left to me. Votes: 3
John Wilkes BoothTis the glory of a man to vail to truth; as it is the mark of a good nature to be easily entreated. Votes: 3
William PennAye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis. Votes: 0
Eloise Jarvis McGrawAlas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people. Votes: 0
Vittorio AlfieriWhen faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing. Votes: 0
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyThe devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity. Votes: 0
George EliotIf it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareIn love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us. Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneMen are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive. Votes: 0
William CongreveWhy should we rise because 'tis light? Did we lie down because t'was night? Votes: 0
William ShakespeareDreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today. Votes: 0
Lope de VegaMisers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldBeauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait. Votes: 0
Bill VaughanThou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareIf a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldAh well, 'tis the way of the world -- births and deaths, births and deaths. Votes: 0
Leonid AndreyevIn lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeWho seeks, and will not take when once 'tis offered, shall never find it more. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareWhen nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the Church the leprosy begins. Votes: 0
William CowperAt Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink, But 'tis a nobler privilege to think. Votes: 0
John Godfrey SaxeThe devil tempts us not; 'tis we who tempt him, beckoning his skill with opportunity. Votes: 0
George EliotBut 'tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new reformation. Votes: 0
John DrydenHow easy 'tis, when Destiny proves kind, With full-spread sails to run before the wind! Votes: 0
John DrydenMaintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed. Votes: 0
John DrydenNow 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareFather, I beg of Thee a little task To dignify my days, 'tis all I ask. Votes: 0
Edna St. Vincent MillayWhat pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill! Votes: 0
Philip MassingerFade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so; 'tis but what we in our autumn do. Votes: 0
Edmund WallerFor God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post. Votes: 0
Nicholas CulpeperGreat men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareWho will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made? Votes: 0
Algernon SidneyThe greatest attribute of heaven is mercy; And 'tis the crown of justice, and the glory Votes: 0
John FletcherHabits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive. Votes: 0
William CowperAuthors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too? Votes: 0
Alexander PopeDeath! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars. Votes: 0
Edward YoungGive house-room to the best; 'tis never known Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one. Votes: 0
Robert HerrickO Trade, O Trade! Would thou wert dead!The time needs heart - 'tis tired of head. Votes: 0
Sidney LanierI weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better. Votes: 0
William WycherleyFool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeThus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are. Votes: 0
Oliver GoldsmithThe King's cheese is half wasted in parings: But no matter, 'tis made of the people's milk. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinIn the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation. Votes: 0
Theodor AdornoI laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea. Votes: 0
William Ellery ChanningHow slow the shadow creeps: but when 'tis past How fast the shadows fall. How fast! How fast! Votes: 0
Hilaire BellocYou never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live. Votes: 0
Robert BrowningFor 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language; - on earth it is called Forgiveness! Votes: 0
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowIf it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareDeath is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died. Votes: 0
SapphoWhen 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win. Votes: 0
Finley Peter DunneAh, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain. Votes: 0
AnacreonGet what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold. Votes: 0
Benjamin Franklin