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Sometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you. — Scarlett Thomas

The hasty bitch bringeth forth blind welps — Thomas More

Inspiring conduct has so much more of an impact than coercing it. — Thomas Friedman

There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction. — Thomas Watson

Too much truth in the hands of a liar is more dangerous than a world of lies told to the truthful — Thomas R. Williams

Let them speak as lewdly as they list of me ... as long as they do not hit me, what am I the worse? — Thomas More

The other thing is I don't want to move any more. I have moved so many times in my life. — Thomas Dooley

In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them. — Thomas Friedman

I don't want my hair to be ridiculous. But in Texas I do wear a hat a lot, so I probably have hat-head more than I'm aware of. — Thomas Haden Church

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it. — Thomas A Kempis

Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers. — Thomas Sowell

Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. — Thomas Jefferson

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. — Thomas Jefferson

I've been writing about Vermont independence for nearly ten years ... and, more often than not, it was for an audience of one. — Thomas Naylor

The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves. — Thomas Jefferson

The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained. — Thomas Jefferson

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him. — Thomas Hobbes

The more wit the less courage. — Thomas Fuller

Of two evils, choose the more interesting. — Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

A friend is more concerned about helping people than getting credit. A friend cares. A friend loves. A friend listens. And a friend reaches out. — Thomas S. Monson

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first. — Thomas More

Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich - for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety? — Thomas More

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems. — Thomas Carlyle

Women accept their destiny more readily than men. — Thomas Hardy

Nothing is more helpful to reduce pride than the actual experience of self-knowledge. If we are discouraged by it, we have misunderstood its meaning. — Thomas Keating

The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture. — Thomas Paine

Movie music is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica. — Thomas Beecham

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best. — Thomas More

Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust? — Thomas More

There's more for us to think about in that one little hungry heart than in all the stars of the sky ... — Thomas Hardy

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else. — Thomas Carlyle

I worked all day in back ofa hot van snipping off dog balls, I can cut one more pair. (Dark City Lights) — Thomas Pluck

If I have things my way, over the next few years, I'm going to be doing a lot more directing and a lot less acting. That will be fun for a while. — Thomas Jane

Way of life in Australia focuses more on the outdoors. — Thomas Muster

Don't you love your mother, dear?"
"I guess so. A hard, sharp, thorny kind of love that might be pity more than anything else. — Dean Koontz

You never know yourself till you know more than your body. — Thomas Traherne

Even more reason to do what the note says," Thomas said. Brenda's face showed doubt. "I really think we should — James Dashner

The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is one more liar. — Helen Thomas

The servant may not look to be in better case than his master. — Thomas More

For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us. — Thomas Aquinas

The more they pay you the more they will respect you and enjoy your show. — Thomas Nelson Downs

Youth need less critics and more models. — Thomas S. Monson

All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers. — Thomas Swick

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. — Thomas Jefferson

Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy. — Thomas Aquinas

Strain your brain more than your eye. — Thomas Eakins

I agree with Sen. Rand Paul on issues more than I do Mitch McConnell. — Thomas Massie

Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived. — Thomas Paine

You're gonna need a lot more than prayers, kid. — Ashlan Thomas

The more humble a man is in himself, and the more obedient towards God, the wiser will he be in all things, and the more shall his soul be at peace. — Thomas A Kempis

I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts. — Thomas Jefferson

Greediness of getting more deprives ... the enjoyment of what it had got. — Thomas Sprat

It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less. — Thomas B. Macaulay

A small amount of good literature can often teach more about the inner life than volumes of psychology. — Thomas Moore

There is in true grace an infinite circle: a man by thirsting receives, and receiving thirsts for more. — Thomas Shepard

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. — Thomas Huxley

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness. — Thomas Fuller

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one. — Thomas Jefferson

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. — Thomas Jefferson

Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time. — Thomas Jefferson

He (Thomas) is our best post-up player and now we will have to be more active in the paint. I think we can hold it down, but we will miss him though. — Shawn Marion

The fate of Charles I has only made kings more subtle, not more just. — Thomas Paine

We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more. — Thomas Hardy

Call it no more free-will, but slavish lust; free to evil, but free from good, till regenerating grace loosens the bands of wickedness. — Thomas Boston

He might fast and pray during the whole interval, but the human was more powerful in him than the Divine. — Thomas Hardy

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money. — Thomas Steinbeck

I've probably given more speeches, been on TV more than any other member of the Court - or almost any other member of the Court. — Clarence Thomas

Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth. — Thomas Carlyle

If it seemeth to thee that thou knowest many things, and understandest them well, know also that there are many more things which thou knowest not. — Thomas A Kempis

Does a bibliophile ever have enough room on his shelves? The answer is obvious: get more shelves. — Will Thomas

The race cannot succeed, nor build strong citizens, until we have a race of women competent to do more than bear a brood of negative men. — Timothy Thomas Fortune

Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others. — Thomas More

Sometimes he thought his real goal wasn't to teach them to write better essays but to get them to think more about what it meant to be human. — Matthew Thomas

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy? — Thomas Jefferson

A person cannot make another happy, but he can make him unhappy. This is the main reason why there is more unhappiness than happiness in the world. — Thomas Szasz

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man. — Thomas Love Peacock

(...) there's a rule that no question affecting the general public may be finally decided until it has been debated for three days. — Thomas More

Never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word
Paraphrased — Thomas Jefferson

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. — Thomas Aquinas

As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it. — Thomas Browne

Sin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven. — Thomas Brooks

What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work. — Thomas Huxley

Memory. Symbol. Pattern. These are the three items that, more than any other, separate the professorial reader from the rest of the crowd. — Thomas C. Foster

The people who attacked Mr. Paul are much more concerned with staying in power than they are with protecting my family and yours. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

The poor love life as passionately as the rich do. Perhaps more, for the effort it takes to cling to it. — Joan Thomas

Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying — Thomas Paine

I extremely believe in luck, and I discovered more hard work, your luck as much — Thomas Jefferson

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore. — Thomas Campion

And weep the more, because I weep in vain. — Thomas Gray

Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason. — Thomas More

Don't thank me just yet. There is much more to come for us. You can thank me when we're old and grey. — Olivia L. Thomas

The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does. — Thomas A Kempis

He thinks, I remembered you, Thomas More, but you didn't remember me. You never even saw me coming. — Hilary Mantel

... the more emphatic the renunciation, the less absolute its character. — Thomas Hardy

The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason. — Thomas Hobbes

The Obama 'stimulus' plan is a $1 trillion dollar gamble more suited to Las Vegas than Washington. — Cal Thomas

No human wisdom is more reliable than the actual history in which God is omnipresent. — Thomas C. Oden

An education is a more surefire guarantee that you have possibilities opened to you. — Jonathan Taylor Thomas

I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. — Thomas Friedman

Some men may be snared by beauty alone, but none can be held except by virtue and compliance. — Thomas More