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

Short lived is all rule but the rule of God. Gael. Pr.

Short-lived wits do wither as they grow. Love's L. Lost, ii. 1.

Short prayers reach heaven. Pr. 30

Short reckonings make long friends. Pr.

Short swallow-flights of song, that dip / Their wings in tears and skim away. Tennyson.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, / And never brought to mind? / Should auld acquaintance be forgot, / And days o' lang syne? Burns.

Should envious tongues some malice frame, / To soil and tarnish your good name, / Live it down. Dr. Henry Rink.

Should not the ruler have regard to the voice 35 of the people? Schiller.

Should one suffer what is intolerable? Schiller.

Show me one wicked man who has written poetry, and I will show you where his poetry is not poetry; or rather, I will show you in his poetry no poetry at all. Eliz. S. Shephard.