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

Silent men, like still waters, are deep and dangerous. Pr.

Silver from the living / Is gold in the giving: / Gold from the dying / Is but silver a-flying. / Gold and silver from the dead / Turn too often into lead. Fuller.

Simel et simul—Once and together.

Simile gaudet simili—Like loves like. Pr.

Similia similibus curantur—Like things are cured by like.

Simpering is but a lay-hypocrisy: / Give it a corner and the clue undoes. George Herbert.

Simple as it seems, it was a great discovery 5 that the key of knowledge could turn both ways, that it could open, as well as lock, the door of power to the many. Lowell.

Simple gratitude, untinctured with love, is all the return an ingenuous mind can bestow for former benefits. Love for love is all the reward we expect or desire. Goldsmith.

Simplex sigillum veri—Simplicity is the seal of truth. M. of Boerhave.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style: in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity. Longfellow.