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Simplify your life.
Henry David Thoreau

Love is friendship set on fire.
Jeremy Taylor

...we expect our seniors to step up and be leaders (once they take the field)...
Darold Turner, CHHS football coach

Heaven for climate; hell for society.
Mark Twain

The world is good-natured to people who are good-natured.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
Mark Twain

Although paralysis has aided me in my pilgrimage, it has not made me automatically holy. You could say the same about your own suffering. Pain and problems do not make one instantly obedient.
Joni Eareckson Tada

God gives us a twenty-four hour slice of time in which to make the most of every opportunity, opportunities that will have eternal repercussions. The way we spend... the hours and moments counts. It counts far more than we realize.
Joni Eareckson Tada

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
Mark Twain

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
Lily Tomlin

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
Lily Tomlin

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Harry S Truman (1884-1972)

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
Harry S Truman (1884-1972), 33rd president of the USA

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Henrik Tikkanen

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Mark Twain

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Mark Twain

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Lao Tzu

If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
Harry S Truman (1884-1972)

Look at a day when you were supremely satisfied at its end. It's not a day when you lounged around doing nothing. It's when you've had everything to do and you've done it.
Margaret Thatcher

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Calvin Trillin

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
Henry David Thoreau

Progress results from persistence with purpose.
Frank Tyger

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Harry S Truman

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain

Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao-Tzu, philosopher

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
Arnold Toynbee (1889-1915), historian

Whenever you find that you are majority, it is time to reform.
Mark Twain

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark Twain

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
James Thurber (1894-1961)

Inspiration and passion usually go together. If you are going to persuade others to go with you, it certainly doesn't hurt that you've got very strong convictions about where you are going. Like Columbus did, for instance, to discover the New World. And, if you've got passion and conviction, you're more likely to be inspiring. If you're inspired yourself and you're passionate about something, you're more likely to succeed at it, and you've more likely to get others to come with you.
Ted Turner

It is easier to stay out than get out.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all costs.
James Thurber (1894-1961), writer

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Mark Twain

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
Henry David Thoreau

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Lily Tomlin

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from science, along with behaviour control, genetics engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry, and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
Lewis Thomas

Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict.
Deborah Tanner, author

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Mark Twain

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
Mark Twain

Under the magnetism of friendship, the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
William Thackeray (1811-1863), writer

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
Ivan Turgenev

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau

If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
Ted Turner

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportions a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.
Mark Twain

I think I'll work all my life. When you're having fun, why stop having fun?
Helen Thomas, journalist

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our head.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1962), writer

Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
Lily Tomlin

Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else.
James Thorpe

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.
Gary Trudeau

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau

There's a lot of testosterone here, not a lot of common sense...
Christopher Titus, comedian

[This quote edited for family friendliness. :) ]
We have to face something - every country on this planet knows we can kick their butt, but they hate us anyway. So instead of going out and blowing stuff up, you know what we need to do? We need to actually send our guys over and the second we find out a country hates us, instantly send everyone in that country a color TV and a satellite dish and hook them up to cable. And we make them watch ESPN2 for five minutes. 'Cause when you watch ESPN2 for five minutes you'll understand something about our country. We build monster trucks for fun. We developed the top fuel dragster 0 to 300 miles per hour in under 5 seconds 'cause we were bored. :) Make us mad and see what we build.
Christopher Titus

The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich (1886-1965), theologian

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
Brian Tracy, speaker and author

The world belongs to those with the most energy.
Alexis de Tocqueville, author

Nothing is too much trouble for love.
Desmond Tutu, clergyman and civil rights leader

If you're not enjoying the journey, you probably won't enjoy the destination.
Joe Tye, motivational speaker/coach

People hate as they love, unreasonably.
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-63), novelist

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.
Mark Twain

I can live for two months on one good compliment.
Mark Twain

It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Fellowship of the Ring"

If you know your enemy and you know yourself, then you need not fear the outcome of a hundred battles.
Sun Tzu

The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.
Willie Tyler

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Mark Twain

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher in Observer, April 4, 1989

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.
Henry J. Tillman

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.
Frank Tyger, author

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Henry David Thoreau

Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.
Barbara Tober

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world, and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
Mark Twain

Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
Lily Tomlin

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
James Thurber, The New Yorker, "The Fairly Intelligent Fly," 02/04/1939

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy

I am a writer. I am fascinated by language in daily life. I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language - the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth. Language is the tool of my trade.
Amy Tan

The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), novelist

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