Terence Quotes (53 Quotes)


    I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.

    Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

    I like it here and I don't want to leave, but no-one seems to care what we think.

    I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.

    He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.


    How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.

    So many men, so many opinions.

    In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.

    I know the ways of women they won't come when thou wilt, and when thou won't they are passionately fond

    For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.

    You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.

    I think to a certain extent the market can live with fourth-quarter earnings which are not necessarily stellar, ... Provided some of the forward-looking statements provide an underlying basis for the optimism that we have.

    So many men, so many opinions everyone his own way.

    How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.

    While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

    How often events, by chance, and quite unexpectedly, come to pass, which you had not dared even to hope for.

    This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.

    She ne'er was really charming till she died.

    Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.

    Of my friends I am the only one left.

    The anger of lovers renews their love.

    Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not.

    Moderation in all things.

    I believe because it is impossible.

    You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.

    They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

    Asia has got everything going against it at the moment, ... We're moving into another downturn -- the eye of the storm. Asia's problems are going to last two to three years.

    I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.

    We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

    I do not give money for just mere hopes.

    I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.

    Where there's life, there's hope.

    I do think, though, longer term the semiconductor area, both equipment makers and the chip producers, is probably the best area to be in this market looking forward,

    To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.

    The semiconductor area, both the equipment makers and the chip producers,

    Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love.

    Nothing is said that has not been said before.

    But at the current stage, I do not have the impression that there are strong political figures among the cabinet members who can impact upon events.

    Too much liberty corrupts us all.

    What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!

    What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.

    Fortune favors the brave.

    There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.

    I hold this as a rule of life: too much of anything is bad.

    Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.

    Extreme law is often extreme injustice.

    You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

    I'm very disappointed that after a lot of hard work and a public consultation and the reluctant agreement of Ware residents to approve 70 homes, we are now being asked to approve another 30.

    They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head.

    Their silence is praise enough.


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