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

Suer sang et eau—To toil and moil (lit. sweat 5 blood and water). Fr. Phr.

Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven. Jesus.

Suffer no hour to slide by without its due improvement. Thomas à Kempis.

Suffer thyself to be led in everything but feeling and thinking. Sallet.

Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. Mer. of Ven., i. 3.

Suffering in human life is very widely vicarious. 10 Ward Beecher.

Suffering is part of the divine idea. Ward Beecher.

Suffering is the mother of fools, reason of wise men. (?)

Suffering which falls to our lot in the course of nature, or by chance or fate, does not, "ceteris paribus," seem so painful as suffering which is inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another. Schopenhauer.

Suffice unto thy good, though it be small, / For hoard hath hate, and climbing tickleness; (uncertainty) / Praise hath envie, and weal is blent o'er all. Chaucer.