Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Sans les femmes les deux extrémités de la vie seroient sans secours, et le milieu sans plaisir—Without woman the two extremities of life would be destitute of succour, and the middle without pleasure. Fr.

Sans peur et sans reproche—Fearless and blameless. Surname of the Chevalier Bayard.

Sans phrase—Without phrase; without amplification; 20 simply. Fr.

Sans Souci—"No bother" here. Name given by Frederick the Great to his country-house at Potsdam.

Sans tache—Without stain. M.

Sanctio justa, jubens honesta, et prohibens contraria—A just decree, enforcing what is honourable and forbidding the contrary. Bracton.

Sanctum est vetus omne poema—Every old poem is sacred. Hor.

Sic vos non vobis—Thus do ye labour not for 25 yourselves. Virg.

Sanctum sanctorum—Holy of holies; a study; a private room.

Sanctus haberi / Justitiæque tenax, factis dictisque mereris? / Agnosco procerem—If you deserve to be held a man without blame, and tenacious of justice both in word and deed, then I recognise in you the nobleman. Juv.