Strength was the virtue of Paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity. Hare.
Strenua nos exercet inertia; navibus atque / 35 Quadrigis petimus bene vivere; quod petis hic est—Strenuous idleness gives us plenty to do; we seek to live aright by yachting and chariot-driving. What you are seeking for is here. Hor.
Strict laws are like steel bodices, good for growing limbs; but when the joints are knit, they are not helps, but burdens. Sir Francis Fane.
Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character. J. F. Boyes.
Strictly speaking, the imagination is never governed; it is always the ruling and divine power, and the rest of the man is to it only as an instrument which it sounds, or a tablet on which it writes; clearly and sublimely if the wax be smooth and the strings true, grotesquely and wildly if they are stained and broken. Ruskin.
Strike, but hear me. Themistocles to Eurybiades before battle of Salamis.
Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! / 40 Crack Nature's moulds, all germens spill at once, / That make ungrateful man! Lear, iii. 2.
Strike those that hurt, and hurt not those that help. 1 Hen. VI., iii. 3.
Strike while the iron is hot. Pr.
Striking manners are bad manners. Robert Hall.