Thou Quotes

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.

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

He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake, he cannot sleep: Thus of every grief in heart He with thee does bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.

Thou hast power only to act not over the result thereof. Act thou therefore without prospect of the result and without succcumbing to inaction ( The translation follows thus Karmani ave adhikars te --you have the power to act only ma phalesu kadachana --you do not have the power to influence the result ma karmaphal hetur bhoo --therefore you must act without the anticipation of the result ma sangostu akramani --without succumbing to inaction ).

Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

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

When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.

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

If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.

Thou shalt not ration justice.

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

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.

Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?