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  • "I was homesick at the time. I didn’t have a home but that doesn’t keep you from being homesick sometimes."
    - James Taylor (US singer-songwriter. 1948– ) BBC broadcast, November 1970, referring to the time when he was in Spain and the UK writing the song Carolina in My Mind.
  • Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.
    - Teague's Paradox
  • "Always present, never there."
    - Denis Thatcher (Husband of Margaret Thatcher. 1915–2003) This was his motto as consort to the Prime Minister.
  • "The highest condition of art is artlessness."
    - Henry David Thoreau (US essayist and poet. 1817–62)
  • "Not till we are lost . . . do we begin to find ourselves."
    - Henry David Thoreau
  • "It is the greatest advantage to enjoy no advantage at all."
    - Henry David Thoreau
  • "Now I go a-fishing and a-hunting every day, but omit the fish and the game, which are the least important part."
    - Henry David Thoreau, The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, January 26, 1853. (See also Michael Baughman quote.)
  • "Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of civilisation."
    - G. M. Trevelyan (British historian. 1876–1962), English Social History, 1942.
  • "time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
    - Marthe Troly-Curtin , Phrynette Married, 1911.
    This quote has been misattributed to various people, including Bertrand Russell and John Lennon, and may predate Troly-Curtin.
  • "Old age is the most unexpected of all things that can happen to a man."
    - Leon Trotsky (Pseudonym of Lev Davidovich Bronstein, Russian revolutionary. 1879–1940)
  • "Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it."
    - Harry S. Truman (33rd President of the USA. 1884–1972)
  • "If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it."
    - J. M. W. Turner (English painter. 1775–1851), when a friend complained of the blackness of the sails in "Peace – burial at sea", 1844.
    Quoted in Dictionary of National Biography (1917–)
  • "A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes."
    - Mark Twain (Pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, US writer and journalist. 1835–1910)
  • "It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."
    - Mark Twain
  • Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint.
    - Mark Twain
  • The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
    - Mark Twain
  • I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
    - Mark Twain
  • "Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born—a hundred million years—and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together."
    - Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1924.

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