'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
Ben Jonson

'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.
Thomas More

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.
John Sheffield

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
Miguel De Cervantes

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Charles Lamb

'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
Michel de Montaigne

'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.
Isaac Watts

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.
Sarah Fielding

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
Lord Byron

'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.
Mary Astell

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
William Congreve

To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
Edmund Waller

To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party.
Mary Astell

We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.
Mary Astell

Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.
Wilkie Collins

When change itself can give no more, 'Tis easy to be true.
Charles Sedley

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
Thomas Gray

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
A. E. Housman

Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?
Algernon Sydney