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| Sabbath: A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God
made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
Ambrose
Bierce |
| Sacred cows make great hamburgers. |
| "Sail," quoth the king; "Hold"
saith the wind.
--English proverb |
| Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
Ambrose Bierce |
| Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream.
George
Santayana |
| Santa's elves are just a bunch of subordinate Clauses. |
| Sarcasm: The last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when
the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
Fyodor
M. Dostoevsky |
| Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.
Charles Lamb |
| Save a thief from the gallows, and he'll cut your throat.
Proverb |
| Save energy: be apathetic. |
| Say nothing of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
English proverb |
| Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back
to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
H.L. Mencken |
| Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon
and the preacher distinctly and apart. Michel de Montaigne |
| Science is material. Religion is immaterial. |
| Science may never come up with a better office communications system
than the coffee break. Earl Wilson |
| Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom is not.
Laurence Sterne |
| Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.
Israel
Zangwill |
| Second marriage:
The triumph of hope over experience.
Samuel Johnson |
| Second thoughts are even wiser.
Euripides |
Securus iudicat orbis terrarum.
(The verdict of the world is
conclusive.) St. Augustine |
| SEDATIVE REFLECTION
How doth the hippie cure
insomnia?
By murmering AMOR VINCIT OMNIA.
Ogden Nash |
| See a pin and let it lie, you'll want a pin before you die.
French
proverb |
| Seeing is deceiving. It's eating that's believing.
James Thurber |
| Seeing's believing, but feeling's the truth.
Thomas Fuller, M.D. |
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Seldom has punishment, though lame of foot, failed to overtake a
villain. Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) |
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Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: the
lawyers didn't make it. Douglas Jerrold |
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Self-esteem is the most voluble of the emotions.
Frank M. Colby |
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Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
Francois, Duc de La
Rochefoucauld |
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Semiconductor:
Part-time band leader. |
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Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable
of a tune. Charles Lamb |
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Serendipity:
The process by which human knowledge is advanced. |
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Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm, I have dined
today. Sydney Smith |
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Set a stout heart to a steep hillside.
Scottish proverb |
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Sevareid's Law:
The chief cause of problems is solutions. |
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Seven days is the length of a guest's life.
Burmese proverb |
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Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writings things to
quote. Henry C. Bunner |
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Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still
preserves. Marcus Aurelius |
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Shared pain is lessened; shared joy is increased. |
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She had a lot of fat that did not fit.
H.G. Wells |
| She is chaste who was never asked the question. William Congreve |
| She is intolerable, but that is her only fault. Charles M. de
Talleyrand |
She looked as if she had been poured into her
clothes and had forgotten
to say "when." Pelham G. Wodehouse |
| She looks as if her soul had got the better of her. Samuel Butler |
| She still aims at youth, though she shot beyond it years ago. Charles
Dickens |
| She turned him down like a bedspread. Pelham G. Wodehouse |
| She was a brunette by birth but a blonde by habit. Arthur Baer |
| She was completely unmanned by the loss of her husband. James M.
Bailey |
| She was one of the early birds, and I was one of the worms. T.W.
Connor |
| She was permanently waved both as to hair and figure. Cornelia Otis
Skinner |
| She was short on intelligence but long on shape. George Ade |
| She was suffering from fallen archness. Franklin P. Adams |
| She was torn between love and booty. Faith Baldwin |
| She wavers, she hesitates: in a word, she is a woman. Jean B. Racine |
| She went up the Nile as far as the first crocodile. Samuel Butler |
| She who hesitates is won. Oscar Wilde |
| She wore a silk jersey that held fast going around curves. Channing
Pollock |
| She would rather fool with a bee than be with a fool. John K. Bangs |
| She's always in a triangle - like Napoleon's hat. Arthur Baer |
| She's generous to a fault - if it's her own. Arthur Baer |
| She's learned to say things with her eyes that others waste time
putting into words. Corey Ford |
| Show him death, and he'll be content with fever. Persian proverb |
| Show me a liar, and I'll show you a thief. George Herbert |
| Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who
is playing golf with his boss. Nebraska Smoke-Eater |
| Show me a man with head held high, and I'll show you a man who can't
get used to bifocals. Morse Telegraph Newsletter |
| Show me someone who says money can't buy happiness, and I'll show you a
poor moron. |
| Shun an angry man for a moment - your enemy forever. Publilius Syrus |
| Sickness comes on horseback and departs on foot. Dutch proverb |
| Silence cannot be misquoted. |
| Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not
silence. Samuel Butler |
| Silence is one great art of conversation. Willaim Hazlitt |
| Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. Josh Billings
(Henry Wheeler Shaw) |
| Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever
produced had nothing to say on the subject. Josh Billings (Henry
Wheeler Shaw) |
| Silence is the unbearable repartee. Gilbert K. Chesterton |
| Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex. Oscar Wilde |
| Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. |
| Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. |
| Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. Lord George Gordon Byron |
| Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. Italian proverb |
| Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven. Igor Stravinsky |
| Sit with your back to a draft and you face your coffin. Italian
proverb |
| Sixty-percent of all mammalians are rodents - does this include you? |
| Skill makes love unending. Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) |
| Slander always leaves a slur. James Kelly |
| Slander drives a wise man crazy and breaks a strong man's
spirit. Bible, Ecclesiastes 7:6 |
| Slander, like coal, will either dirty your hand or burn it. Russian
proverb |
| Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera. James Stephens |
| Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be
interrupted. Jean Paul Richter |
| Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far. Euripides |
| Slums may very well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class
suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. Cyril Connolly |
| Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors. Herbert Agar |
| So far as is known, no widow ever eloped. Edgar W. Howe |
| So justice, while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence
sometimes. Samuel Butler |
| So when any of the four pillars of government are mainly shaken or
weakened (which are Religion, Justice, Counsel and Treasure), men had
need to pray for fair weather. Francis Bacon |
| Soar not too high to fall, but stoop to rise. Philip Massinger |
| Society is a hospital of incurables. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners
than appetite, and those who had more appetite than dinner. Nicholas
Chamfort |
| Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the
Bores and Bored. Lord George Gordon Byron |
| Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the
dreamer. Oscar Wilde |
Socii mei socius, meus socius not est.
(The partner of my partner is
not my partner.) Legal maxim |
| Sodd's Second Law: Sooner or later, the worst possible set of
circumstances is bound to occur. |
| Soldiers win battles and generals get the credit. Napoleon Bonparte |
| Solemnity is a trick of the body to hide the faults of the
mind. Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld |
| Solitude vivifies; isolation kills. Joseph Roux |
| Solitude: A great place to visit, but a bad place to stay. |
| Solomon made a book of proverbs, but a book of proverbs never made a Solomon.
English proverb |
| Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be
chewed and digested. Francis Bacon |
| Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem
indispensable. Frank M. ("Kin") Hubbard |
| Some folks never begin to figure tell there's nothing to add. Frank M.
("Kin") Hubbard |
| Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for
it. Frank M. ("Kin") Hubbard |
Some for the Glories of This World; and some
Sigh for the Prophet's
Paradise to come;
Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go,
Nor heed
the rumble of a distant Drum! XIII, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (5th Ed.) |
| Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill
them. Edgar W. Howe |
| Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have
greatness thrust upon 'em. William Shakespeare [Twelfth Night] |
| Some men are discovered; others are found out. |
| Some men are like musical glasses: to produce their finest tones you
must keep them wet. Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. Lucan |
| Some men give their blood to their country; others their
spleen. Gelett Burgess |
| Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are. Gilbert
K. Chesterton |
| Some ministers would make good martyrs; they are so dry they would burn
well. Charles H. Spurgeon |
| Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church; they're afraid
God might recognized them and ask for autographs. Fred Allen |
| Some of us learn from other peoples' errors. The rest must be the other
people. |
| Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop
out, the more biting they get. George D. Prentice |
| Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am
thankful that thorns have roses. Alphonse Karr |
| Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet
it. Douglas Jerrold |
| Some people carve careers, others chisel them. |
| Some people never have anything except ideals. Edgar W. Howe |
| Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt. Frank M.
("Kin") Hubbard |
| Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their
folly. Jonathan Swift |
| Some people wouldn't recognize subtlety if it hit them on the head. |
| Some read to think, these are rare; some read to write, these are
common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority. Charles C. Colton |
| Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. William Shakespeare
[Measure for Measure] |
Somebody said that it couldn't be done -
But he, with a grin,
replied
He'd never be one to say it couldn't be done -
Leastways, not
'til he'd tried.
So he buckled right in, with a trace of a grin;
By
golly, he went right to it.
He tackled The Thing That
Couldn't Be Done!
And he couldn't do it. Anonymous |
| Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties pay for the copies I
give away. Clarence Darrow |
| Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest
inheritance. Ruth E. Renkel |
| Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma. Hendrik
W. van Loon |
| SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD I think that I shall never see
A billboard
lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a
tree at all.
Ogden Nash |
| Sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret. |
| Sour grapes can ne'er make sweet wine. Thomas Fuller, M.D. |
| Space is to place as eternity is to time. Joseph Joubert |
| Space tells matter how to move and matter tells space how to curve. Wheeler |
| Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh. Burmese
proverb |
| Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. Slovenian proverb |
| Speech is of time, silence is of eternity. Thomas Carlyle |
| Speech is the mirror of action. Solon |
| Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he. Publilius
Syrus |
| Speeches measured by the hour die with the hour. Thomas Jefferson |
| Spinster: A bachelor's wife. |
| Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's Party!" Robin Williams |
| Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of
slush. Doug Larson |
| Spring makes everything young again except man. Jean P. Richter |
| Square meals often make round people. E. Joseph Cossman |
| Stability itself is nothing else than a more sluggish motion. |
| Stalin's grave was a communist plot. |
| Statisticians do it with 95% confidence. |
| Stolen sweets are best. Colley Cibber |
| Stop searching forever. Happiness is unattainable. |
| Stop; look; listen. Ralph R. Upton |
Stories, like whiskey, must be
allowed to mature in the cask. Sean
O'Faolain |
Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who
Before us pass'd the door
of Darkness through,
Not one returns to tell us of the Road,
Which to
discover we must travel too. LXIV, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (5th Ed.) |
Strange to say what delight we married people have
to see these poor
fools decoyed into our condition. Samuel Pepys |
| Streakers repent! Your end is in sight. |
| Strip majesty of its exteriors (the first and last letters) and it
becomes a jest. Edmund Burke |
| Stubborness and stupidity are twins. Sophocles |
| Stupidity is without anxiety. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you. Phaedrus |
| Success can corrupt; usefulness can only exalt. Dmitri Mitropoulos |
| Success covers a multitude of blunders. George Bernard Shaw |
| Success has a thousand fathers, but failure is an orphan. |
| Success is a journey, not a destination. |
| Success means getting up just one more time than you've fallen down. |
| Successful crime goes by the name of virtue. Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| Such are the ways of fate in this harsh world: Today you are lifted
gently into the saddle, and tomorrow the saddle is placed on your
shoulders. Firdausi |
| Sue a beggar, and catch a louse. Thomas Fuller, M.D. |
| Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness. Fyodor M. Dostoevsky |
| Suicide is cheating the doctors out of a job. Josh Billings (Henry
Wheeler Shaw) |
| Suicide is the worst form of murder, because it leaves no opportunity
for repentance. John C. Collins |
| Suit the action to the word, the word to the action. William
Shakespeare [Hamlet] |
| Summom ius summa iniuria. (Extreme law, extreme injustice.) Legal
maxim |