Top 100 Thou Quotes
#1. Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy:
This wide and universal theatre
Presents more woeful pageants than the scene
Wherein we play in.
William Shakespeare
#2. Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta suppellex.
Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there.
Aulus Persius Flaccus
#3. Yet this thou art alive, but if ye soar,
My poor frail heart will have beat out its cry
And sadly miss thy sweet form all the more
While helplessly I stand and watch you die.
Timothy Salter
#5. When thou eatest, give to the dogs, should they even bite thee.
Voltaire
#6. Dogberry: Thou wilt be condemned into everlasting redemption for this.
Michael Keaton
#8. Why, thou deboshed fish thou ... Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?
William Shakespeare
#9. It will be seen that the formula - 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law' has nothing to do with 'Do as you please.' It is much more difficult to comply with the Law of Thelema than to follow out slavishly a set of dead regulations.
Aleister Crowley
#10. Dost thou call me fool, boy?"
"All thy other titles thou hast given away; that thou wast born with.
William Shakespeare
#14. Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.
Homer
#15. Meddle not in the affairs of Dragons. For thou art crunchy and go well with Ketchup.
Unknown
#16. O blessed Health! thou art above all gold and treasure; 'tis thou who enlargest the soul, and openest all its powers to receive instruction, and to relish virtue. He that has thee has little more to wish for, and he that is so wretched as to want thee, wants everything with thee.
Laurence Sterne
#18. [ ... ] Villain I am none.
Therefore farewell. I see thou knowest me not.
William Shakespeare
#19. My God! my time is in Thine hands. Should it please Thee to lengthen my life, and complete, as Thou hast begun, the work of blanching my locks, grant me grace to wear them as a crown of unsullied honor.
Christian Scriver
#20. Therefore tremble, O man, at any power thou hast, except thou usest it for God. Art thou strong in body; who hath thy strength? God, or thy lusts?
William Gurnall
#21. The next "I will" is found in Luke, fifth chapter. We read of a leper who came to Christ, and said: "Lord, if Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean." The Lord touched him, saying, "I will: be thou clean"; and immediately the leprosy left him.
D.L. Moody
#22. Sit down: thou art no flatterer:
I thank thee for it; and heaven forbid
That kings should let their ears hear their
faults hid!
William Shakespeare
#23. Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed.
John F. Kennedy
#24. Thou should eat to live; not live to eat.
Socrates
#27. If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established.
Saint Augustine
#28. Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.
Philip Massinger
#29. Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.
Thomas Carlyle
#30. Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.
Saadi
#31. Enough of dreams! No longer mock
The burdened hearts of men!
Not on the cloud, but on the rock
Build thou thy faith again; O range no more the realms of air,
Stoop to the glen-bound streams;
Thy hope was all too like despair:
Enough, enough of dreams.
Alfred Noyes
#32. Remember with whom thou hast to do: what canst thou expect from dust but levity; or from corruption, but defilement(33)?
Richard Baxter
#33. Now, art thou the man to pitch a harpoon down a live whale's throat, and then jump after it? Answer, quick!
Herman Melville
#34. O Hope! Dazzling, radiant Hope! What a change thou bringest to the hopeless; brightening the darkened paths, and cheering the lonely way.
Aimee Semple McPherson
#35. But if thou live, remember'd not to be, Die single and thine image dies with thee.
William Shakespeare
#36. This day last year Livingstone died-a Scotsman and a Christian, loving God and his neighbour in the heart of Africa. Go thou and do likewise!
Alexander Murdoch Mackay
#37. Have I today done anything to fulfill the purpose for which Thou didst cause me to be born?
John Baillie
#38. And in thy own sermon, thou
That the sparrow falls dost allow,
It shall not cause me any alarm;
For neither so comes the bird to harm,
Seeing our Father, thou hast said,
Is by the sparrow's dying bed;
Therefore it is a blessed place,
And the sparrow in high grace.
George MacDonald
#39. I had broken the most basic commandment of our culture: Thou shalt pretend there is nothing wrong.
Derrick Jensen
#40. If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st But keep that count'nance still.
William Shakespeare
#42. In the commission of evil, fear no man so much as thyself; another is but one witness against thee, thou art a thousand; another thou mayest avoid, thyself thou canst not. Wickedness is its own punishment.
Francis Quarles
#43. O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#44. If people are smokers, don't they have to pay more? Sometimes, you get your insurance cheaper if you are a nonsmoker. So, let the markets sort this out and insurance sort it out, but not having dictates by the government saying thou, you must do this and your behavior doesn't matter, you know?
Ron Paul
#45. January brings the snow / Makes your feet and fingers glow / February's ice and sleet / Freeze the toes right off your feet / Welcome March with wintry wind / Would thou wer't not so unkind / April brings the sweet spring showers / On and on for hours and hours ...
Michael Flanders
#46. Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#48. Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too;
To live and die is all we have to do.
John Denham
#49. D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee!
-D'Artagnan
Alexandre Dumas
#50. Fruits fail and love dies and time ranges;
Thou art fed with perpetual breath,
and alive after infinite changes,
And fresh from the kisses of death,
Of langours rekindled and rallied,
Of barren delights and unclean,
Things monstrous and fruitless, a pallid
And poisonous queen.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#51. Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee.
Stephen Crane
#52. Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.
Emily Bronte
#53. I dore not always touch her, lest the kiss
Leave my lips charred. Yea, Lord, a little bliss,
Brief, bitter bliss, one hath for a great sin;
Nathless thou knowest how sweet a thing it is.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#54. Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.
Francis Bacon
#55. Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.
Thomas A Kempis
#57. Though the 'Thou' is not an 'It', it is also not "another 'I'". He who treats a person as "another 'I'" does not really see that person but only a projected image of himself. Such a relation, despite the warmest "personal" feeling is really 'I'-'It'.
Mauric Friedman
#58. O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for succor; on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies; from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of
disappointment.
Oliver Goldsmith
#60. From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.
Marcus Aurelius
#61. Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride of quietness, then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.
Terry Eagleton
#62. If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#63. Ordain'd by thee, and this delicious place For us too large, where thy abundance wants Partakers, and uncropt falls to the ground. But thou hast promis'd from us two a Race To fill the Earth, who shall with us extoll Thy goodness infinite, both
John Milton
#64. Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity then will cut away Those cruel wings, and thou wilt stay.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#65. Listen where thou art sitting
Under the glassie, cool, translucent wave,
In twisted braids of Lillies knitting
The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair,
John Milton
#66. The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.
Marvin Harris
#67. Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health.
Horace
#68. Thou didst, in strains of eloquence refin'd, Inflame the soul, and captivate the mind.
Phillis Wheatley
#69. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean - roll!
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
Man marks the earth with ruin - his control
Stops with the shore.
George Gordon Byron
#70. The 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore God. The 12th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore Thyself.
Rob Brezsny
#71. Thou seek'st to part us, wrapping in soft words Hard thoughts.
Sophocles
#72. Have I not commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee withersoever thou goest. Joshua 1:9
Anonymous
#74. Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all.
Herman Melville
#75. But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.
Beilby Porteus
#76. WHO SHALL not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy" (Rev 15:4). He
Arthur W. Pink
#77. Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
Muhammad Iqbal
#78. So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and grey.
John Milton
#79. Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility; for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#80. Be kind to dragons, for thou art crunchy when toasted and taste good with ketchup. (Sebastian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#81. Let the greatest part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest, lest the greater part of what thou believest be the least part of what is true.
Francis Quarles
#82. But in this at least thou shalt not defy my will: to rule my own end.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#83. Speak no evil, that thou mayest not hear it spoken unto thee, and magnify not the faults of others that thine own faults may not appear great
Baha'u'llah
#84. In reality, the Us-and-Them or I-and-Thou dichotomies do not exist. There is only one universal We - one human family united by the capacity to feel compassion and to demand equal justice for all.
John Howard Griffin
#85. Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.
John Donne
#86. Hast thou not learnd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old, That no success attends on spears and swords Unblest, and that the battle is the Lords?
William Cowper
#87. Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep the United States in thy holy protection ...
George Washington
#88. Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering stood For years, thou hermit, in the lonely sea Of grass that waves around thee!
John Clare
#89. Papadopoulos simply did not possess the power. 'I can't!' I SHALT ASSIST, promised the Arrow of Dodona. STARTEST THOU: 'PLAGUEY, PLAGUEY, PLAGUEY.' 'The enchantment does not start plaguey, plaguey, plaguey!' 'Who are you talking to?' Austin demanded. 'My arrow! I
Rick Riordan
#90. Lord, is it not Thy word, if any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God? Thou givest liberally, and upbraidest not. Thou hast said, if any be willing to do Thy will, he shall know. I am willing to do, let me know Thy will.
John Wesley
#92. Thou art beaten that thou mayest be better.
John Bunyan
#93. Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms, can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke. Why swell'st thou then?
John Donne
#94. Thou wouldst make a good monarch of a desert
Sophocles
#96. Perhaps the greatest justice issue of all is intergenerational theft. The Eighth Commandment says "Thou shall not steal," but every day we live unsustainably we steal from our children and their children.
Fred Small
#97. Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart's blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.
Charles Spurgeon
#98. But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.
Homer
#99. Attention! Attention! Attention! Thou art aware of the situation!
Zack Ryder
#100. And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed,
Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.
John Keats
