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 seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence consisting of two or three words. South.

The "seventeenth" century is worthless to us except precisely in so far as it can be made the "nineteenth." Carlyle.

The severe and restrictive virtues are almost too costly for humanity. Burke.

The severity of laws impedes their execution. Montesquieu.

The shadowed livery of the burnished sun. 20 Mer. of Venice, ii. 1.

The sheep slips and is up again; the sow lies down and wallows. Saying.

The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Johnson.

The ship that carries most sail is most buffeted by the winds and storms. John Burroughs.

The short and simple annals of the poor. Gray.

The shorter life, less count I find, / The less 25 account the sooner made, / The account soon made, the merrier mind, / The merrier mind doth thought evade. Sir T. Wyatt.