TACT a) Knowing how far we may go too far.
b) Intelligence of the heart.
c) Art of handling people without bruising their eye..
d) One is said to have this quality when he has the art of talking to a woman as if he loved her and to every man as if he bored him.
TAILOR a) A man whose business is sew-sew.
b) Of the various types of social-beings inhabiting this earthly hell, it is only his type who behave sensibly. For they have the wisdom to take our measurements anew every time we go to them while all the others go on with old measurements and expect them to fit us.
TALENT Art of doing easily what others find difficult.
TASTE Finer impulse of our nature.
TATTOO Permanent proof of temporary insanity.
TAXES They are indeed very heavy. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our folly.
TEACHER One who is incapable of learning.
TEAR Dew of compassion.
TEARS a) Silent language of grief.
b) Summer showers of soul.
c) The telescope by which man sees far into heaven.
TECHNICIAN A man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its ultimate place in the order of the universe.
TECHNOLOGY Materialised fantasy.
TELEVISION A device which permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can.
TEMPER Something you can't get rid of by losing it.
TEMPERANCE One of the two best physicians of homo-sapiens, the other being labour.
TEMPTATION Something which when resisted gives happiness and when yielded to gives greater happiness.
TENDERNESS Passion in repose.
TENNIS A pastime where love all means nothing.
THRIFT Having an hen tomorrow rather than an egg today.
TIME a) The most valuable thing we can spend.
b) A mathematical puzzle which eludes solution.
c) Nature's way of keeping everything away from happening at once.
TOLERANCE Test of civilization.
TOMORROW a) The biggest labour saving device.
b) The easiest way of dealing with a problem.
TONGUE a) God's gift, Devil's toy.
b) A little member that boasteth great things. It defieth the whole body. An unruly devil full of deadly poison.
TOURIST A rich vagabond.
TRAFFIC-LIGHT A masterly device to get pedestrians half-way across the road safely.
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