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

Se laisser prendre aux apparences—To let one's 40 self be imposed on by appearances. Fr. Pr.

Se moquer de la philosophie, c'est vraiment philosopher—To jest at the expense of philosophy is truly to philosophise. Pascal.

Se non è vero, è ben trovato—If it is not true, it is cleverly invented. It. Pr.

Se retirer dans un fromage de Hollande—To retire into a Dutch cheese, i.e., to be contented. La Fontaine.

Se tu segui tua stella—Follow thou thy own star. Dante.

Sea Islanders; but a real human heart, with 45 Divine love in it, beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes. Holmes.

Sea things that be / On the hot sand fainting long, / Revive with the kiss of the sea. Lewis Morris.

Seamen have a custom when they meet a whale to fling out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship. Swift.

Search not to find what lies too deeply hid; / Nor to know things whose knowledge is forbid. Denham.

Search others for their virtues, and thyself for thy vices. Fuller.