Thy Quotes

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
C. S. Lewis

Give thy thoughts no tongue.
William Shakespeare

Give, Thoughts, Tongue

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
William Shakespeare

Give, Few, Voice

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
William Shakespeare

Lady, Teach, Kissing

I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.
William Shakespeare

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
Benjamin Franklin

Long, Sell, Thou

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Benjamin Franklin

Life, Meals, Lessen

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Benjamin Franklin

Time, Gain, Thou

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
Robert Frost

Great, Forgive, Big

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
Aristotle

Life, Find, Last

Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
Mae West

Love, Happens, Neighbor

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
Voltaire

Truth, Live, May

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
Sun Tzu

Enemy, Self, Thousand

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Francis of Assisi

Love, Peace, Hatred

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
Saint Augustine

Heart, Dark, Holy

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Marcus Aurelius

Life, Power, Mind

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
Marcus Aurelius

Life, Last, Act

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
Marcus Aurelius

Life, Give, Last

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.
Epictetus

Remember, Brother, Wrongs

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
W. C. Fields

Death, Cold, Whiskey

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
Hippocrates

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
John Donne

Jail, Palace, Thine

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
Kwame Nkrumah

Freedom, Another, Keep

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
Epictetus

Control, Passions, Lest

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
Saint Augustine

Prayer, Desire, Longing

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
Omar Khayyam

Moving, Nor, Line

I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
Harry Dean Stanton

Good, May, Night

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Before, Plant, Foot

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Dreams, Dream, Shall

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
William Wordsworth

Age, Night, Old

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