Top 55 Tis Quotes

Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

Oh, ’tis love, ’tis love that makes the world go round.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

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

‘Tis folly to be wise.

Though an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.

Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

For tis not in mere death that men die most.

It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman’s strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.

‘Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

It is a great pity but tis certain from every day’s observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.

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.

‘Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

From November through December, ’tis the season for ‘Home Alone!’

‘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.

‘Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.

Ay, rail at gaming – ’tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city – you’ll find a congregation in every tavern.

‘Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

‘Tis not every question that deserves an answer.

‘Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.

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

‘Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.

If there’s delight in love, ‘Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.

Prudent people are very happy; ’tis an exceeding fine thing, that’s certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.

‘Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

In outward show so splendid and so vain; ’tis but a gilded block without a brain.

‘Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

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

A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the ‘I’ in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for ‘Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, ‘Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for – worth dying for.

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.

‘Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

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

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.

‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

‘Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one’s power to do good, riches being another word for power.

‘Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.

I weigh the man, not his title; ’tis not the king’s stamp can make the metal better.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‘Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

‘Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

‘Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

And, after all, what is a lie? ‘Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

‘Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

I’m not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades – it ’tis.

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

Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.

And ’tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.

Though language forms the preacher, ‘Tis good works make the man.

A knock-down argument; ’tis but a word and a blow.

I cannot sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, ‘Tis that I can’t remember how They go.