Thou Quotes

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
Barry Cornwall

Life, Beauty, Art

Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?
John James Audubon

Hope, Succeed, Possible

I am not going to condemn anybody. That's where religion gets a bad name, when people get holier than thou. We are all human. If my children make a mistake, I want them to know it is all right and they should try harder next time.
Donny Osmond

Religion, Time, Bad

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

Art, Alone, May

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
Angelus Silesius

Art, Lost, Free

Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Grace, Necessity, Created

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.
Ben Jonson

Small, Less, Though

Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.
Ben Jonson

After, Weed, Lust

I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more seriously - especially the Ten Commandments - and wondering how 'Thou shalt not kill' could be so absolutely ignored. It took me until I was in my 40s to write what I was thinking as a young soldier.
Dave Brubeck

Thinking, Philosophy, Young

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.
Phyllis Schlafly

Women, Men, Woman

Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
Otto Rank

Give, Birth, Shalt

Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Lips, Treasures, Kingdoms

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
Matthew Arnold

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.
Akhenaton

Change, Men, Action

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

Book, Wine, Verses

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

Art, Shall, Master

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
Karel Capek

Great, God, Victory

The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.
William Gurnall

Less, Grace, Soon

Where hast thou wandered. gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring?
William C. Bryant

Find, Bring, Gentle

Thou shalt not ration justice.
Learned Hand

Justice, Ration, Shalt

Blessed be God that Thou hast filled the soul of Thy servant with joy and peace in believing.
Christopher Love

Peace, God, Blessed

Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.
Branch Rickey

Mean, Shall, Indeed

All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.
Robert Owen

Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing.
Austin Dobson

Night, Sense, Lovely

Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.
Akhenaton

Life, Alone, Honor

The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.
Marvin Harris

Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, though thou hast suffered men to condemn Thy servant, Thy servant will not condemn Thee.
Christopher Love

But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee.
Johann Arndt

Art, Against, Since

Iconic Paris tells us: here are our three-star attractions, go thou and marvel. And so we gaze obediently at what we are told to gaze at, without exactly asking why.
Julian Barnes

Why, Here, Paris

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!
Thomas Hood

Love, Art, Call

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