Quotes T "Death is not putting out the light. It is extinguishing the candle because the dawn is here." -- Tagore "I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph." -- Shirley Temple "Come my friends, tis not too late to seek a newer world." -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson "We must not forget that the biblical authors were not writing history - they were creating religion. The Bible was not written by historians but by priests; and what they wrote was a statement of faith - not a statement of fact." -- Savina J. Teubal "Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides." -- Margaret Thatcher "To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan. You should wear it inside, where it functions best." -- Margaret Thatcher "I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end." -- Margaret Thatcher "She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway." -- Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20, "3 am" "I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me." -- Hunter S. Thompson "The perception of beauty is a moral test." -- Henry David Thoreau "It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers." -- James Thurber "If anus's [sic] are sized like breasts, mine must be very small. I base this on the many times I've been called an 'A' hole." -- Fred Thurman "For fast-acting relief try slowing down." -- Lily Tomlin "Why is it when we talk to God we are said to be praying, and when God talks to us we are said to be schizophrenic?" -- Lily Tomlin "I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing its understanding of being human." - John Trudell "Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation." -- Elton Trueblood "My early choice in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference." -- Harry S. Truman "Do you really believe that the Jesus who was depicted in the Scriptures as being on the side of those who were vilified, those who were marginalized, that this Jesus would actually be supporting groups that clobber a group that is already persecuted? That's a Christ I would not worship. I'm glad that I believe very fervently that Jesus would not be on the side of gay bashers. To think that people say, as they used to say, that AIDS was God's punishment for homosexuality. Abominable. Abominable." -- Desmond Tutu "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 "Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." -- Mark Twain "If you tell the truth, you do not have to remember anything." -- Mark Twain "We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read." -- Mark Twain "Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint." -- Mark Twain "Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty." -- Mark Twain "Familiarity breeds contempt - and children." -- Mark Twain "You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." -- Mark Twain "Always do right. This will gratify some and astonish the rest." -- Mark Twain "Few things are harder to put up with than a good example." -- Mark Twain "What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary." -- Mark Twain " . . . war must be the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity." -- Mark Twain "Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about." -- Mark Twain "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." -- Mark Twain "Opportunity's favorite disguise is trouble." -- Frank Tyger "Hearing is one of the body's five senses. But listening is an art." -- Frank Tyger "If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work: "Hello. Can't work today, still queer." -- Robin Tyler Index