Terence Quotes
"You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time."
- Terence
(Related: Time, Chance, Man)
"While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse."
- Terence
(Related: Doubt, Mind)
"Where there's life, there's hope."
- Terence
(Related: Life, Hope)
"What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!"
- Terence
(Related: Fathers, Judges)
"We are all of us the worse for too much liberty."
- Terence
(Related: Liberty)
"Too much liberty corrupts us all."
- Terence
(Related: Liberty)
"To touch a sore is to renew one's grief."
- Terence
(Related: Grief)
"This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess."
- Terence
(Related: Excess)
"They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head."
- Terence
(Related: Love, Dancing, Feet)
"What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense."
- Terence
(Related: Common sense)
"You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it."
- Terence
(Related: Attention, Needs)
"Moderation in all things."
- Terence
(Related: Moderation)
"In fact nothing is said that has not been said before."
- Terence
(Related: Fact, Nothing)
"Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up."
- Terence
(Related: Time, Beginning)
"I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing."
- Terence
(Related: Life)
"I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me."
- Terence
(Related: Humanity, Interest)
"Nothing is said that has not been said before."
- Terence
(Related: Nothing)
"Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong."
- Terence
(Related: Right, Wrong)
"Of my friends I am the only one left."
- Terence
(Related: Friends)
"Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love."
- Terence
(Related: Love, Lovers, Quarrels)
"Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist."
- Terence
(Related: Design, God)
"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."
- Terence
(Related: Blessings, Mind, Value)
"She ne'er was really charming till she died."
- Terence
"Extreme law is often extreme injustice."
- Terence
(Related: Extreme, Injustice, Law)
"I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me."
- Terence
(Related: Being, Nothing)
"I hold this as a rule of life: too much of anything is bad."
- Terence
"How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy."
- Terence
(Related: Fate)
"Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion."
- Terence
(Related: Children, Persuasion, Right)
"Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own."
- Terence
(Related: Men, Nature, Human nature)
"For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness."
- Terence
(Related: Love, Advice, Madness, Rules)
"Fortune favors the brave."
- Terence
(Related: Favors, Fortune)
"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."
- Terence
(Related: Mistake, Affection, Authority, Force)
"I am human and let nothing human be alien to me."
- Terence
(Related: Nothing)
"I do not give money for just mere hopes."
- Terence
(Related: Money)
"How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for."
- Terence
(Related: Hope, Chance)
"There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right."
- Terence
(Related: Men, Right, Wrong)
"So many men, so many opinions."
- Terence
(Related: Men, Opinions)
"Their silence is praise enough."
- Terence
(Related: Praise, Silence)
"The anger of lovers renews their love."
- Terence
(Related: Anger, Love, Lovers)
"They are so knowing, that they know nothing."
- Terence
(Related: Nothing)