Strange cozenage! none would live past years again; / Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; / And from the dregs of life think to receive / What the first sprightly running could not give. Dryden.
Strange is the life of man, and fatal or fated 25 are moments, / Whereupon turn, as on hinges, the gates of the wall adamantine! Longfellow.
Strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift, hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale; will either blow out a pestilent scoundrel's brains, or the scoundrel's salutary sheriff's officer's (in a sense), as you please to choose, for your guinea. Carlyle.
Stranger or countryman to me / Welcome alike shall ever be. / To ask of any guest his name, / Or whose he is, or whence he came, / I hold can never be his part / Who owns a hospitable heart. Macedonius.
Straws show which way the wind blows. Pr.
Strength alone knows conflict; weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished. Mme. Swetchine.
Strength, instead of being the lusty child of 30 passions, grows by grappling with and throwing them. J. M. Barrie.
Strength needs support far more than weakness. A feather sustains itself long in the air. Mme. Swetchine.
Strength of mind is exercise, not rest. Pope.
Strength of mind rests in sobriety, for this keeps the reason unclouded by passion. Pythagoras.