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

Steep regions cannot be surmounted except by winding paths. Goethe.

Stemmata quid faciunt? Quid prodest, Pontice, longo / Sanguine censeri?—What do pedigrees avail? Of what advantage, Ponticus, is it to be rated by the antiquity of your race? Juv.

Step by step one goes far. Pr. 35

Steps vary as much as the human face. J. M. Barrie.

Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in expounding and filling up, these are the two pinions on which history soars—or flutters and wabbles. Carlyle.

Stern daughter of the voice of God. Wordsworth, of Duty.

Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate / Full on thy bloom. Burns.

Stet—Let it stand. 40

Stet fortuna domus—May the fortune of the house stand. M.

Stets ist die Sprache kecker als die That—Speech is always bolder than action. Schiller.