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

The Satanic school. Southey. 25

"The savans and the asses in the middle." Order of Napoleon on the eve of a cavalry charge in Egypt.

The scholar without good-breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic; the soldier, a brute; and every man disagreeable. Chesterfield.

The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married. Addison.

The schoolmaster is abroad. Brougham.

The sea belongs to eternity, and not time, 30 and of that it sings its monotonous song for ever and ever. Holmes.

The sea complains upon a thousand shores. Alex. Smith.

The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not enclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom. Saadi.

The sea moans over dead men's bones. T. B. Aldrich.

The sea that bares her bosom to the moon. Wordsworth.