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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 44b98c0 | In her eyes a thoughtA mystical forewarning! | Thomas Bailey Aldrich | ||
| 333b66b | There's a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys. | Thomas Bailey Aldrich | ||
| 77d3223 | They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. | Thomas Bailey Aldrich | ||
| 9ca8785 | O harp of life, so speedily unstrung! | Thomas Bailey Aldrich | ||
| e906693 | So precious life is! Even to the old The hours are as a miser's coins! | Thomas Bailey Aldrich | ||
| 0d89d04 | Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe. | Thomas Bailey Aldrich | ||
| e02bd51 | The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born. | Thomas Bailey Aldrich | ||
| 7c06f6a | After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow. | Thomas Bailey Aldrich | ||
| 8573389 | The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly. | Thomas Bailey Aldrich | ||
| 14d1d59 | A man is known by the company his mind keeps. | Thomas Bailey Aldrich | ||
| 2c56dd3 | True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. | Thomas Bailey Aldrich | ||
| 18abacf | Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. | Thomas Bailey Aldrich | ||
| 3293ad8 | What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next. | Thomas Bailey Aldrich | ||
| 908b2f9 | The musical equivalent of the towers of St Pancras Station | Thomas Beecham | ||
| 0f3d9e5 | Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint. | Thomas Beecham | ||
| 7c93ea8 | A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. | Thomas Beecham | ||
| 83f203b | The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought. | Thomas Beecham | ||
| 153c3b6 | What can you do with it? It's like a lot of yaks jumping about." | Thomas Beecham | ||
| 7ca87d7 | I found it as alluring as a wayward woman and determined to tame it. | Thomas Beecham | ||
| 9ecf0e7 | The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands. | Thomas Beecham | ||
| c75f3a3 | If I cannot sing a work, I cannot conduct it. | Thomas Beecham | ||
| fccd472 | No composer has written as much as 100 bars of worthwhile music since 1925. | Thomas Beecham | ||
| 15bc26d | So do men oftentimes find their greatest cross where they expected their greatest comfort. | Thomas Boston | ||
| 79a856a | Give me, give me God's own country! there to live and there to die, | Thomas Bracken | ||
| 40801a0 | Sin which men account small brings God's great wrath on men. | Thomas Brooks (Puritan) | ||
| 4b2a9b7 | The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater. | Thomas Brooks (Puritan) | ||
| f418efc | God is as just as He is merciful. | Thomas Brooks (Puritan) | ||
| 4ebebe8 | God will call evil men to a strict account for all the outward good that they have enjoyed. | Thomas Brooks (Puritan) | ||
| 902fa4a | The snow covers many a dunghill, so doth prosperity many a rotten heart. (page 87) | Thomas Brooks (Puritan) | ||
| 53b0e1b | You are wise, and know how to apply it. | Thomas Brooks (Puritan) | ||
| 83d6f64 | Many are now dropped into hell that have formerly presumed of their going to heaven. | Thomas Brooks (Puritan) | ||
| 6fdbb52 | Assurance is a jewel worth waiting for. | Thomas Brooks (Puritan) | ||
| 4e44b94 | He who would to the purpose do a good action, must not neglect his season. | Thomas Brooks (Puritan) | ||
| 8eaaf81 | Take no truths upon trust, but all upon trial. | Thomas Brooks (Puritan) | ||
| 4def9f6 | Precepts may instruct, but examples persuade. | Thomas Brooks (Puritan) | ||
| a5e09e0 | Godly lives convince more than miracles themselves. | Thomas Brooks (Puritan) | ||
| 90ac9f1 | It is certain that great prosperity and worldly glory are no sure tokens of God's love. | Thomas Brooks (Puritan) | ||
| 5c3e222 | Sin is a viper that does always kill where it is not killed. | Thomas Brooks (Puritan) | ||
| 84cab3f | Though all truths are glorious, yet there is a double glory upon seasonable truths. | Thomas Brooks (Puritan) | ||
| 835ee82 | A man may be in as just possession of Truth as of a City, and yet be forced to surrender. | Thomas Browne | ||
| 2988446 | Rich with the spoils of Nature. | Thomas Browne | ||
| 3e3efe4 | I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo. | Thomas Browne | ||
| 540b208 | I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret Magic of numbers. | Thomas Browne | ||
| 15ce331 | Art is the perfection of nature. | Thomas Browne |