The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (433 page)

Thomson, Roy
1894–1976

1
Like having your own licence to print money.
on the profitability of commercial television in Britain

R. Braddon
Roy Thomson
(1965) ch. 32

 
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Thoreau, Henry David
1817–62

1
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

Journal
11 November 1850

2
Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

letter to Harrison Blake, 16 November 1857.

3
I have travelled a good deal in Concord.

Walden
(1854) "Economy"

4
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Walden
(1854) "Economy"

5
The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.

Walden
(1854) "Sounds".

6
It is not worthwhile to go around the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

Walden
(1854) "Conclusion"

7
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Walden
(1854) "Conclusion"

 
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Thorne, Robert
d. 1527

1
There is no land unhabitable nor sea innavigable.

Richard Hakluyt
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation
(1589)

 
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Thorpe, Jeremy
1929–

1
Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.
on Harold Macmillan's sacking seven of his Cabinet on 13 July 1962

D. E. Butler and Anthony King
The General Election of 1964
(1965) ch. 1.

 
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Thucydides
c.
455
bc

1
Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

Thucydides
History of the Peloponnesian War
bk. 2, ch. 4, sect. 43 (tr. Rex Warner)

 
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Thurber, James
1894–1961

1
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

My Life and Hard Times
(1933) ch. 2

2
It's a na
ve domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

cartoon caption in
New Yorker
27 March 1937

3
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

cartoon caption in
New Yorker
5 June 1937

4
It's our
own
story
exactly
! He bold as a hawk, she soft as the dawn.

cartoon caption in
New Yorker
25 February 1939.

 
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