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

Summæ opes inopia cupiditatum—He is richest 35 who is poorest in his desires. Sen.

Summam nec metuas diem, nec optes—Neither fear nor wish for your last day. Mart.

Summum bonum—The chief good.

Summum crede nefas animam præferre pudori, / Et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas—Consider it to be the height of impiety to prefer life to honour, and, for the sake of merely living, to sacrifice the objects of living. Juv.

Summum jus sæpe summa injuria est—The strictest justice is often grossest injustice. Cic.

[Greek: syn d' ananka pan kalon]—Whatever is beautiful 40 is beautiful by an inner necessity. Pindar.

Sunbeams pour alike their glorious tide / To light up worlds or wake an insect's mirth. Keble.

Sunday is the core of our civilisation, dedicated to thought and reverence. Emerson.

Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, / 'Tis angels' music, therefore come not late. George Herbert.

Sunlight is painting. Hawthorne.