Loitering slow, the FUTURE creepeth-- Arrow-swift, the PRESENT sweepeth-- And motionless forever stands the PAST.

1915 SCHILLER: _Sentences of Confucius, Time._

=Tithes.=

This priest he merry is and blithe Three quarters of a year, But oh! it cuts him like a scythe, When tithing-time draws near.

1916 COWPER: _Yearly Distress,_ St. 2.

=Titles.=

We all are soldiers, and all venture lives; And where there is no difference in men's worth, Titles are jests.

1917 BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _King or No King,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

Titles are marks of honest men and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title, lies.

1918 YOUNG: _Love of Fame,_ Satire i., Line 137.

=Toad.=

Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve.

1919 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. iv., Line 800.

=Tobacco.=

Sublime tobacco! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labor or the Turkman's rest.

1920 BYRON: _The Island,_ Canto ii., St. 19.

=To-day.=

Happy the man and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own.

1921 DRYDEN: _Im. of Horace,_ Bk. iii., Ode 29, Line 65.

Our cares are all To-day, our joys are all To-day; And in one little word, our life, what is it but--To-day?

1922 TUPPER: _Proverbial Phil. of To-day_

=Toil.=

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

1923 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _A Glance Behind the Curtain._

_Tomb._

E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.

1924 GRAY: _Elegy,_ St. 23.

=To-morrow.=

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.

1925 SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act v., Sc. 5.

Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun on thee may never rise.

1926 CONGREVE: _Letter to Cobham._

To-morrow comes and we are where?

Then let us live to-day.

1927 SCHILLER: _The Victory Feast,_ St. 13.

Where art thou, beloved To-morrow?

Whom young and old, and strong and weak, Rich and poor, through joy and sorrow, Thy sweet smiles we ever seek-- In thy place--ah! well-a-day!

We find the thing we fled--To-day.

1928 SHELLEY: _To-morrow._

=Tongue.=

While thou livest, keep a good tongue in thy head.

1929 SHAKS.: _Tempest,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning.

1930 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

Sacred interpreter of human thought, How few respect or use thee as they ought!

But all shall give account of every wrong, Who dare dishonor or defile the tongue.

1931 COWPER: _Conversation,_ Line 23.

=Tools.=

For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools.

1932 BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. i., Canto i., Line 89.

=Toothache.=

There was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently.

1933 SHAKS.: _Much Ado,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

=Torrent.=

So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more.

1934 GOLDSMITH: _Traveller,_ Line 217.