Sive pium vis hoc, sive hoc muliebre vocari; / Confiteor misero molle cor esse mihi—Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish, I confess that to my misfortune it is soft. Ovid.
Six feet of earth make all men equal. Pr.
Six hours to sleep allot: to law be six addressed; 15 / Pray four: feast two: the Muses claim the rest. On the fly-leaf of an old lawbook from Coke. See Sex horas, &c.
[Greek: skias onar anthrôpoi]—Men are the dream of a shadow. Pindar.
Skilful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. Epicurus.
Skill is stronger than strength. Pr.
Skill is the united force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation on manual labour. Ruskin.
Skill to do comes of doing; knowledge comes 20 by eyes always open, and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power. Emerson.
Sky is the part of creation in which Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her. Ruskin.
Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, / Though he alight sometimes, still goeth on. George Herbert.