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

Supple knees feed arrogance. Pr. 20

Suppose a neighbour should desire / To light a candle at your fire, / Would it deprive your flame of light / Because another profits by't. Lloyd.

Suppressing love is but opposing the natural dictates of the heart. Goldsmith.

Suppressio veri—Suppression of what is true.

Supra vires—Beyond one's powers. Hor.

Supremum vale—A last farewell. Ovid. 25

Sur esperance—In hope. M.

Surdo fabulam narras—You tell your story to a deaf man.

Sure as night follows day, / Death treads in pleasure's footsteps round the world, / When pleasure treads the path which reason shuns. Young.

Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, / Looking before and after, gave us not / That capability and godlike reason / To fust in us unused. Ham., iv. 4.