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

Sorrow seems sent for our instruction, as we darken the cages of birds when we would teach them to sing. Jean Paul.

Sorrow that is couched in seeming gladness / 10 Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness. Troil. and Cress., i. 1.

Sorrow will pay no debt. Pr.

Sorrows are like thunder-clouds—in the distance they look black, over our heads hardly gray. Jean Paul.

Sorrows are often evolved from good fortune. Goethe.

Sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Tennyson.

Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy. 15 R. Pollok.

Sors tua mortalis; non est mortale quod optas—Thy lot is mortal, and thou wishest what no mortal may. Ovid.

Sort thy heart to patience; / These few days' wonder will be quickly worn. 2 Henry VI., ii. 4.

Sotto voce—In an undertone. It.