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Tis Quotes by Alexander Pope
- Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
- In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
- How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all…
- 'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.
- What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
- Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
- Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
- Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
- 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.
- Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
- And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
- 'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
- 'Tis true, perfection none must hope to find in all the world, much less in woman-kind
More Tis Quotes
- Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes. — Miguel de Cervantes
- 'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body… — Miguel de Cervantes
- When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not… — Benjamin Franklin
- Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis… — Benjamin Franklin
- Stay, my lord, And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills Requires slow… — William Shakespeare
- Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate… — A. E. Housman
- That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. — James M. Barrie
- Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty… — Benjamin Franklin