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

Still swine eat all the draff. Pr.

Still the sight of too great beauty blinds us, 5 and we lose / The sense of earthly splendours, gaining heaven. Lewis Morris.

Still the skies are opened as of old / To the entrancèd gaze, ay, nearer far / And brighter than of yore. Lewis Morris.

Still they gazed, and still the wonder grew / That one small head could carry all he knew. Goldsmith.

Still to the lowly soul / He doth Himself impart, / And for His cradle and His throne / Chooseth the pure in heart. Keble.

Still und bewegt—Still and yet moved. M. of Rahel.

Still waters run deep. Pr. 10

Stillest streams oft water finest meadows, / And the bird that flutters least is longest on the wing. Cowper.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least they must work their limbs or features. Holmes.

Stirb, Götz, du hast dich selbst überlebt—Die, Gotz; thou hast outlived thyself. Goethe.