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

Something attempted, something done, / Has 15 earned a night's repose. Longfellow.

Something between a hindrance and a help. Wordsworth.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Ham., i. 4.

Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised. Emerson.

Something of a person's character may be discovered by observing when and how he smiles. Some people never smile. They only grin. Bovee.

Sometimes from her eyes / I did receive fair 20 speechless messages. Mer. of Venice, i. 1.

Sometimes ideas are made flesh; they breathe upon us with warm breath; they touch us with soft responsive hands; they look upon us with sad, sincere eyes, and speak to us in appealing tones. George Eliot.

Sometimes the half is better than the whole, / And sometimes worse than none; the dubious soul / Suspects the secret there in what is hid, / And holds the rest but trash. Dr. Walter Smith.

Sometimes / 'Tis well to be bereft of promised good, / That we may lift the soul, and contemplate / With lively joy the joys we cannot share. Coleridge.

Somnus agrestium / Lenis virorum non humiles domos / Fastidit, umbrosamque ripam—The gentle sleep of rustic men disdains not humble dwellings and the shady bank. Hor.