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

Stultus semper incipit vivere—The fool is always beginning to live. Pr.

Stunden der Noth vergiss, doch was sie dich lehrten, vergiss nie—Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you. Gesser.

Stung by straitness of our life, made strait / On purpose to make sweet the life at large. Browning.

Stupid people and uneducated people do not 40 care for nice discriminations. They always have decided opinions. William Black.

Stupid people move like lay-figures, while every joint of an intelligent man is eloquent. Schopenhauer.

Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius. Wieland.

Stupidity is without anxiety. Goethe.

Sturm-und Drang-Periode—The storm-and-stress period. A literary period in Germany, the productions of which were inspired by a love of strong passion and violent action.

Style is the dress of thoughts. Chesterfield. 45

Style is the physiognomy of the mind. Schopenhauer.