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Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.

-- Deborah Tannen, You Just Don't Understand

Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.

-- William Temple

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

-- Mother Teresa

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

-- Margaret Thatcher

When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.

-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict

We can do not great things - only small things with great love.

-- Mother Theresa

Why is it that wherever I go, the resident idiot heads straight for me?

-- Gwynn Thomas

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

-- Pauline Thomason

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

-- Hunter S. Thompson

Men have become the tools of their tools.

-- Henry David Thoreau

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

-- Henry David Thoreau

That government is best which governs least.

-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)

Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.

-- Kelvin Throop III

Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.

-- James Thurber

I hate women because they always know where things are.

-- James Thurber

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

-- James Thurber

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

-- Henrik Tikkanen

God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.

-- Benjamin Tillett

The first duty of love is to listen.

-- Paul Tillich

"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.

-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Wheaton College Graduation, 1995

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

-- Alvin Toffler

Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.

-- Alvin Toffler

All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;

-- J.R.R. Tolkein

If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?

-- Lily Tomlin

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

-- Lily Tomlin

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

-- Lily Tomlin

Assassins!

-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.

-- Arnold Toynbee

Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

-- Arnold Toynbee

Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.

-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn

Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

-- G. M. Trevelyan

Health food makes me sick.

-- Calvin Trillin

If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?

-- Calvin Trillin

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for 30 years she served nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

-- Calvin Trillin

Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

-- Leon Trotsky, Diary In Exile, Entry for April 3, 1935

...And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable.

-- Garry Trudeau

There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully be put into equations, because it is nonsense.

-- C. Truesdell

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

-- Harry S. Truman

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

-- Harry S. Truman

In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.

-- Edward P. Tryon

Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.

-- Mao Tse-tung

Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.

-- John Tudor

Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.

-- Herbert Westren Turnbull

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

-- Lana Turner

Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

-- Mark Twain

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

-- Mark Twain

Faith is believing what you know ain't so.

-- Mark Twain

Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.

-- Mark Twain

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

-- Mark Twain

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

-- Mark Twain

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

-- Mark Twain

I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

-- Mark Twain

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

-- Mark Twain

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

-- Mark Twain

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

-- Mark Twain

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said, "I don't know."

-- Mark Twain

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things, freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

-- Mark Twain

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

-- Mark Twain

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

-- Mark Twain

Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.

-- Mark Twain

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

-- Mark Twain

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

-- Mark Twain

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

-- Mark Twain

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

-- Mark Twain

The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.

-- Mark Twain

The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.

-- Mark Twain

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

-- Mark Twain

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

-- Mark Twain

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

-- Mark Twain

Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.

-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

-- Sun Tzu

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

-- Hermann Weyl