Miscellaneous quotes
973 quotes from 439 people
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent.
Tacitus55–120Annals (117), Book XI, 24
William Howard Taft1857–1930Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers (Columbia University Press, 1916), P. 61.
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p. 198The mirror crack’d from side to side;
“The curse is come upon me,” cried
The Lady of Shalott.
Margaret Thatcher1925–2013Interview for Press Association (3 May 1989)I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
Light breaks where no sun shines;
Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart
Push in their tides
Dylan Thomas1914–1953“Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines”, st. 1 (1934), st. 1I hate to advocate alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone but they’ve always worked for me.
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.
Hunter S. Thompson1937–2005Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971)I went out to the country so i could examine the simple things in life.
