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 shortest and the surest way to prove a work possible is strenuously to set about it; and no wonder if that proves it possible that for the most part makes it so. South.

The shortest answer is doing. Pr.

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once. Samuel Smiles.

The showy lives its little hour; the true / To after times bears rapture ever new. Goethe.

The shrine is that which thou dost venerate, / 30 And not the beast that bears it on his back. George Herbert.

The sight of you is good for sore eyes. Swift.

The sign of health is unconsciousness. Carlyle.

The sign of the poet is that he announces what no man foretold. Emerson.

The significance of life is doing something. Carlyle.

The signs of the times. Jesus. 35