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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - See  Cervantes

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
Françoise Sagan

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.
Saki

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. It's only the middle-aged who are really conscious of their limitations.
Saki

He looked like the kind of a guy that wouldn't talk to you much unless he wanted something off you. He had a lousy personality.
J. D. Salinger

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty ... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
J. D. Salinger

John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on.
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
J. D. Salinger

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
Jonas Salk

Behind all its global responsibilities and impersonal style banking is still a people business ... it may be the most personal business of all for it always depends on the original concept of credit, meaning trust.
Anthony Sampson

Even children learn in growing up that both is not an admissible answer to a choice of which one?
Paul Samuelson

Profits are the lifeblood of the economic system, the magic elixir upon which progress and all good things depend ultimately. But one man's lifeblood is another man's cancer.
Paul Samuelson

The consumer, so it is said, is the king ... each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the things done that he wants done.
Paul Samuelson

Lean In.
Title of book published in 2013.
Sheryl Sandberg

Man is born with rainbows in his heart and you'll never read him unless you consider rainbows.
Carl Sandburg

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Carl Sandburg

The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails.
Bernie Sanders to Hillary Clinton, Democratic presidential debate, Las Vegas, October 13, 2015.
Bernie Sanders

The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.
Bernie Sanders

It's not a matter of life and death, it's more important than that!
Henry Russell Sanders

Men, I'll be honest. Winning isn't everything. Men, it's the only thing!
Version A.
Henry Russell Sanders

Sure, winning isn't every thing; it's the only thing.
Version B.
Henry Russell Sanders

The governor is hiking the Appalachian Trail.
Governor's spokesman regarding Sanford's disappearance on June 22, 2009.
Mark Sanford

England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors.
George Santayana

Fashion is something barbarous for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
George Santayana

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
George Santayana

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
George Santayana

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent

SARK - See  Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
Robert Sarnoff

There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!
Jean-Paul Sartre

When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything.
Jean-Paul Sartre

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
Jean-Paul Sartre

When I was young, I was told: You'll see, when you're fifty. I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing.
Erik Satie

A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
enough money within her control to move out
and rent a place of her own even if she never wants
to or needs to...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
something perfect to wear if the employer or date of her
dreams wants to see her in an hour...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ...
a youth she's content to leave behind....
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
a past juicy enough that she's looking forward to
retelling it in her old age....
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE .....
a set of screwdrivers, a cordless drill, and a black
lace bra...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
one friend who always makes her laugh... and one who
lets her cry...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
a good piece of furniture not previously owned by anyone
else in her family...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
eight matching plates, wine glasses with stems, and a
recipe for a meal that will make her guests feel honored...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
a feeling of control over her destiny...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
how to fall in love without losing herself..
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
HOW TO QUIT A JOB,
BREAK UP WITH A LOVER,
AND CONFRONT A FRIEND WITHOUT RUINING THE FRIENDSHIP...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
when to try harder... and WHEN TO WALK AWAY...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
that she can't change the length of her calves,
the width of her hips, or the nature of her parents..
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
that her childhood may not have been perfect...but it's over...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
what she would and wouldn't do for love or more...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
how to live alone... even if she doesn't like it...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
whom she can trust,
whom she can't,
and why she shouldn't
take it personally...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
where to go...
be it to her best friend's kitchen table...
or a charming inn in the woods...
when her soul needs soothing...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
what she can and can't accomplish in a day...
a month...and a year...

Pamela Redmond Satran

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn vos Savant

You can never be an entrepreneur if you're afraid to lose money. It's like being a pilot who is afraid of bad weather.
Peter de Savary

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
George Savile

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.
George Savile

Contract: an agreement that is binding on the weaker party.*
*Attribution questionable.
Frederick Sawyer

As I grow older and older
And totter towards the tomb,
I find that I care less and less
Who goes to bed with whom.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.
Dorothy L. Sayers

Scarface - See  Al Capone

Ronald Schatt - See  Ronnie Scott

You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, You know what? I'm giving up, I don't care. And then you go to bed and you wake up and it's a brand new day, and you pick yourself back up again.
Nicole Scherzinger

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
Friedrich Schiller

Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
Mary Schmich

Father's Day was comical in part because fathers seemed so out of place or uncomfortable in this holiday world of sentimental gifts and domestic flattery. The little remembrances of flowers, cards, and novelties became funny when showered on Father; they opened up a line of humor that played on the gendered incongruities of holiday gift giving. As one editorial writer on the holiday put the matter in 1925, fathers have 'no talent for the fribbles and frabbles and furbelows with which Mother signalizes well-being.
Leigh Eric Schmidt

Aron Ettore Schmitz - See  Italo Svevo

Hektor Aaron Schmitz - See  Italo Svevo

Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; the same is true of fame.
Arthur Schopenhauer

People who are successful simply want it more than people who are not.
Ian Schrager

Crying is almost a ritual that male politicians must do to prove they are compassionate, but women are supposed to wear iron britches.
Pat Schroeder

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Robert Schuller

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Robert Schuller

Happiness is a warm puppy.
Charles M. Schulz

I do not go to church anymore... I guess you might say I've come around to secular humanism, an obligation I believe all humans have to others and the world we live in.
Charles M. Schulz

The term that best describes me now is secular humanist.
1999 Interview in MetroActive.
Charles M. Schulz

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.
E. F. Schumacher

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
Chuck Schumer

American people ... will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: Our country - when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right.
Carl Schurz

One can't say that figures lie. But figures, as used in financial arguments, seem to have the bad habit of expressing a small part of the truth forcibly, and neglecting the other part, as do some people we know.
Fred Schwed

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer

The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
Albert Schweitzer

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
Angela Schwindt

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.
Hazel Scott

The secret of staying young is mixing with older people.
Ronnie Scott

O, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive!
Walter Scott

Please return this book; I find that though many of my friends are poor arithmeticians, they are nearly all good bookkeepers.
Walter Scott

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Walter Scott

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
Florida Scott-Maxwell

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
Florida Scott-Maxwell

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott-Maxwell

Sec - See  Marya Mannes

Charles-Louis de Secondat - See  Montesquieu

Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration - of oneself and of others. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes. Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.
Lance Secretan

Gaius Plinius Secundus - See  Pliny

They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist....
John Sedgwick

Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
Pete Seeger

Love means never having to say you're sorry.
Erich Segal

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
Erich Segal

For a long time, I thought when you do a box set, you're giving up; you're saying, OK, I don't have anything left. But now I've listened to some of the old stuff I haven't heard in 20 to 40 years with fresh ears. It's like, Oh yeah, I can see where people might want to to hear some of this stuff that didn't make it onto the records.
Bob Seger

Instead of giving contracts to strangers, we decided we could just as well give contracts to our own employees. We would encourage them to leave ... and start their own satellite enterprises.
Ricardo Semler

All art is but imitation of nature.
Seneca

He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.
Seneca

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Seneca

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Seneca

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Seneca

Lack of confidence is not the result of difficulty; the difficulty comes from lack of confidence.
Seneca

Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.
Seneca

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
Seneca

Quality control was treated as a fad here, but it's been part of the Japanese business philosophy for decades. That's why they laugh at us.
Peter Senge

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Dr. Seuss

Marcus Annius Catilius Severus - See  Marcus Aurelius

In a dream you are never eighty.
Anne Sexton

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
Anne Sexton

The joy that isn't shared dies young.
Anne Sexton

Moishe Shagal - See  Marc Chagall

A peace above all earthly dignities,
A still and quiet conscience.

Henry VIII
William Shakespeare

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.

As You Like It
William Shakespeare

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
William Shakespeare

At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel,
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.

As You Like It
William Shakespeare

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:
Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care;
Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather;
Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare.

The Passionate Pilgrim
William Shakespeare

Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare

Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.

Hamlet
William Shakespeare

Fathers that wear rags
Do make their children blind,
But fathers that bear bags
Shall see their children kind.

King Lear
William Shakespeare

He that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends.
As You Like It
William Shakespeare

I am your wife, if you will marry me;
If not, I'll die your maid, To be your fellow
You may deny me, but I'll be your servant,
Whether you will or no.

The Tempest
William Shakespeare

I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul remembering my good friends.

Richard II
William Shakespeare

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
for grief is proud and makes his owner stoop.
To me and to the state of my great grief
let kings assemble; for my grief's so great
that no supporter but the huge firm earth
Can hold it up:

King John
William Shakespeare

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
As You Like It
William Shakespeare

Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.
Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare

O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.
The Merry Wives of Windsor
William Shakespeare

O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.

Othello
William Shakespeare

O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day,

The Two Gentlemen of Verona
William Shakespeare

Oh! how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
As You Like It
William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare

So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition,
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;
So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart.

A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare

Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare

Then, must you speak
Of one that loved not wisely but too well.

Othello
William Shakespeare

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
William Shakespeare

This England never did, nor never shall,
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.

King John
William Shakespeare

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?

Hamlet
William Shakespeare

Tomorrow is Saint Valentine's day,
All in the morning betime,
And I a maid at your window,
To be your Valentine.

Hamlet
William Shakespeare

When the sea was calm, all boats alike
Show'd mastership in floating.

Coriolanus
William Shakespeare

When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools:

King Lear
William Shakespeare

Why, 'tis a happy thing
To be the father unto many sons.

Henry VI
William Shakespeare

Information is like an oyster. It has its greatest value when it is fresh.
Carl Shapiro

Positive feedback makes the strong grow stronger and the weak grow weaker.
Carl Shapiro

Alfred Hitchcock: One look at you, Mr Shaw, and I know there's famine in the land.
Bernard Shaw: One look at you, Mr Hitchcock, and I know who caused it.

George Bernard Shaw

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
George Bernard Shaw

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
George Bernard Shaw

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
George Bernard Shaw

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw

He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
George Bernard Shaw

I have nothing to offer you but my strength for your defence, my honesty for your surety, my ability and industry for your livelihood, and my authority and position for your dignity. That is all it becomes a man to offer to a woman.
George Bernard Shaw

I think the most ridiculous sight in the world is a man on a bicycle, working away with his feet as hard as he possibly can, and believing that his horse is carrying him, instead of, as anyone can see, he carrying the horse.
George Bernard Shaw

I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.
George Bernard Shaw

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the truly great in favour of equality.
George Bernard Shaw

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
George Bernard Shaw

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.
George Bernard Shaw

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
George Bernard Shaw

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
George Bernard Shaw

Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.
George Bernard Shaw

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.
George Bernard Shaw

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
George Bernard Shaw

The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.
George Bernard Shaw

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
George Bernard Shaw

What God hath joined together no man shall ever put asunder; God will take care of that.
George Bernard Shaw

What if the child inherits my beauty and your brains?
George Bernard Shaw

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
George Bernard Shaw

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity.
George Bernard Shaw

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
George Bernard Shaw

You see things as they are and ask, Why? I dream things as they never were and ask, Why not?
George Bernard Shaw

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw

Youth is wasted on the young.
George Bernard Shaw

Henry Wheeler Shaw - See  Josh Billings

I have a message for you. You are not welcome here. You have blood on your hands.
To President George W. Bush, in Crawford, Texas.
Cindy Sheehan

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
Gail Sheehy

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Gail Sheehy

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
Gail Sheehy

I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen. It's not available because if you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body.
ABC News interview in February, 2011.
Charlie Sheen

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one another's being mingle;
Why not I with thine?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family.
Sara Shepard

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
Spoken to a young lady.
Richard Sheridan

It's better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a cow.
Stan Shih

Leadership is the process of achieving a dream together, especially when that dream seems impossible to achieve.
Stan Shih

For lots of big companies, their brand is worth so much to them that they can't endanger their reputation for being a quality company without really endangering their business performance.
Clare Short

Whenever we have compromised on our principles, we and our customers have been the losers.
Marcus Sieff

Who am I? I'm just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure, I sink the boat of love, but that comes later. And yes, I swallow glass, but that comes later.
Richard Siken

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.
Igor Sikorsky

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
Beverly Sills

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills

For every year of life we light
A candle on your cake
To mark the simple sort of progress
Anyone can make,
And then, to test your nerve or give
A proper view of death,
You're asked to blow each light, each year,
Out with your own breath.

James Simmons

A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted.
Herbert Simon

I can't stand whispering. Every time a doctor whispers in the hospital, next day there's a funeral.
Neil Simon

The only thing that endures is character. Fame and wealth - all that is illusion.
O. J. Simpson

I'm losing.
Possible last words A.
Frank Sinatra

I'm losing it.
Possible last words B. According to his daughter.
Frank Sinatra

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Those who are not giving up their nefarious activities even in the holy month of Ramzan, should their activities not be called unholy?
Rajnath Singh

Money isn't what motivates entrepreneurs; it is acknowledgement - a craving for your ideas to be acknowledged.
Reuben Singh

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner

I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people.
Jennifer Sky

Of all business activities, 99% are routine ... The entire 100% can be handled by managing the 1% of exceptions.
Alfred P. Sloan

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Samuel Smiles

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Adam Smith

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape.
Dodie Smith

F. E. Smith:
He was drunk as a judge.
Judge:
The expression as I have always understood it is sober as a judge. Perhaps you mean as drunk as a lord?
F. E. Smith:
Yes, my lord.

F. E. Smith

The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.
F. E. Smith

Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.
Horace Smith

James Todd Smith - See  LL Cool J

Gentlemen, you are now about to embark on a course of studies which will occupy you for two years. Together, they form a noble adventure. But I would like to remind you of an important point. Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education.
John Alexander Smith

Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life - save only this - that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education.
John Alexander Smith

Well, the Lord is going to get another one.
John Eldon Smith

Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
Logan Pearsall Smith

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan Pearsall Smith

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
Logan Pearsall Smith

Administrators are cheap and easy to find and cheap to keep. Leaders - risk takers: they are in very short supply. And ones with vision are pure gold.
Raymond W. Smith

Richard Timothy Smith - See  Richard O'Brien

Going to marry her! Impossible! You mean a part of her; he could not marry her all himself ... There is enough of her to furnish wives for a whole parish ... You might people a colony with her; or give an assembly with her; or perhaps take your morning's walk round her, always provided there were frequent resting-places, and you were in rude health.
Sydney Smith

One evil in old age is that as your time is come you think every little illness is the beginning of the end. When a man expects to be arrested every knock at the door is an alarm.
Sydney Smith

I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.
Interview published June 9, 2013.
Edward Snowden

When history calls, history calls.
Olympia Snowe

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Jane Somers - See  Doris Lessing

I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom and data is the knowledge.
Masayoshi Son

As an anonymous participant in financial markets, I never had to weigh the social consequences of my actions ... I felt justified in ignoring them on the grounds that I was playing by the rules.
George Soros

Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really tough the authorities will step in.
George Soros

I am cautious about going against the herd. I am liable to be trampled on.
George Soros

The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.
George Soros

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Robert Southey

I think giving up people is a difficult thing.
Sissy Spacek

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
Muriel Spark

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Muriel Spark

Sparky - See  Charles M. Schulz

It depends entirely upon the image of you that people have in their minds whether you will climb the ladder slowly, painfully, or with a rapidity that will surprise - and appall - your friends.
Gerald Sparrow

That indefatigable and unsavoury engine of pollution.
Describing the dog.
John Sparrow

To age and imbecility resigned, I watch the struggles of my failing mind: Lumbering along the all-too-well-worn grooves. The poor old thing moves slowly - but it moves!
John Sparrow

If men had to have babies they would only ever have one each.
Diana Spencer

My God. What's happened?
Diana Spencer

You see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well, and people make a lot of money out of you.
Diana Spencer

We often say a speaker needs no introduction: what most of them need is a conclusion. In my view, an after-dinner speech - and I've experienced 40,000 of them - needs a good beginning, a good ending, and not much space in between.
Ivor Spencer

Capital punishment: them without the capital get the punishment.
John Spenkelink

Posh Spice - See  Victoria Beckham

I dream for a living.
Steven Spielberg

I'm happy 'bout life. Still trying. I ain't giving up on life.
Leon Spinks

Fear cannot be without some hope nor hope without some fear.
Baruch Spinoza

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
Benjamin Spock

John Hector St. John - See  Jean de Crèvecoeur

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Philip Stanhope

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of.
Philip Stanhope

I recommend you to take care of the minutes for the hours will take care of themselves.
Philip Stanhope

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments add lustre, and many more people see than weigh.
Philip Stanhope

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Philip Stanhope

The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
Philip Stanhope

I am because my little dog knows me.
Gertrude Stein

Never make concessions.
Gertrude Stein

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck

Planning ahead is a matter of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
Gloria Steinem

All I ask is that you bust your heiny on that field.
Casey Stengel

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
Casey Stengel

Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
Casey Stengel

Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.
Casey Stengel

Ever think of introducing yourself? Y.T. says.
Nah, he says, people always forget names. You can just think of me as that one guy, y'know?

Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson

The trick is growing up without growing old.
Casey Stengel

It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people.
In a remark to V. Stiviano on an audio recording quoted in Los Angeles Times, April 27, 2014.
Donald Sterling

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
Laurence Sterne

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.
Laurence Sterne

Writing, when properly managed (as you may be sure, I think mine is), is but a different name for conversation.
Laurence Sterne

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
Adlai Stevenson

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Adlai Stevenson

Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy; but good administration can never save bad policy.
Adlai Stevenson

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai Stevenson

I suppose flattery hurts no one - that is, if he doesn't inhale.
Adlai Stevenson

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Adlai Stevenson

The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
Adlai Stevenson

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
Adlai Stevenson

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
Robert Louis Stevenson

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.
Robert Louis Stevenson

It was totally a coincidence!
Martha Stewart

Intelligence becomes an asset when some useful order is created out of free-floating brainpower.
Thomas A. Stewart

A huge problem we face when we're in need is giving up our intuition and blindly following instruction. Letting go works when we are following our hearts, but not so well when we are following a leader.
Tara Stiles

A diplomat ... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
Caskie Stinnett

I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.
Caskie Stinnett

The thought of owning an island is perhaps the most romantic concept left to humankind in the 20th Century.
Caskie Stinnett

The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.
Caskie Stinnett

Working for a federal agency was like trying to dislodge a prune skin from the roof of the mouth. More enterprise went into the job than could be justified by the results.
Caskie Stinnett

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
Clifford Stoll

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
Clifford Stoll

Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?
Clifford Stoll

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
W. Clement Stone

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Tom Stoppard

Underneath runs the main current of preoccupation, which is keeping one's nose clean at all times. This means that when things go wrong you have to pass the blame along the line, like pass-the-parcel, till the music stops.
Tom Stoppard

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
Rex Stout

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
Harriet Beecher Stowe

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Women are the real architects of society.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Mr. Strategy - See  Kenichi Ohmae

Tomáš Straussler - See  Tom Stoppard

One's belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one's conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same twenty years ago and today we know we weren't always right.
Igor Stravinsky

The only people who never make mistakes are those who have never taken a decision.
Jack Straw

Family! ... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
August Strindberg

I am a devilish fellow, who has mastered many arts.
August Strindberg

I have no wish at all to be a great writer, let alone a great man. It would just embarrass me and betray a false position. I want to go in nightgown and underwear and be known as a scandal-writer, that wouldn't embarrass me.
August Strindberg

I loathe people who keep dogs. They're cowards who have not got the guts to bite people themselves.
August Strindberg

The accountants have told me that I can have one foot in Jersey, my left earlobe in the Isle of Man, and my right foot in Zurich and pay little or no tax, but ... I will not be running away to the South of France.
Alan Sugar

The priority in life is to keep an eye on the business and not to get lured into the high social life with groupie-type poseurs who wish to be seen with the new blue-eyed boy.
Alan Sugar

There should be some professional exam for these analysts. Most of the time they talk through their backsides.
Alan Sugar

We're going to be in the Hudson.
Responding to air traffic controllers before he landed in the Hudson River on January 15, 2009.
Chesley Sullenberger

John Florence Sullivan - See  Fred Allen

Sultan of Swat - See  Babe Ruth

Winning is fun... Sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you've done is the point.
Pat Summitt

Sun King - See  Louis XIV

Sunzi - See  Sun Tzu

There are three things I always forget. Names, faces, and - the third I can't remember.
Italo Svevo

Freedom of the press in Britain means freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to.
Hannen Swaffer

If you don't understand what makes people tick, they won't tick.
Robert Swan

What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.
Patrick Swayze

'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That Vanity's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men of wit
Will condescend to taste a bit.

Jonathan Swift

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
Jonathan Swift

Every man desires to live long but no man would be old.
Jonathan Swift

He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.
Jonathan Swift

I shall be like that tree, I shall die at the top.
Jonathan Swift

May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
Jonathan Swift

A beautiful face is a mute recommendation.
Publilius Syrus

A friendship that can end, never really began.
Publilius Syrus

A gift in season is a double favour to the needy.
Publilius Syrus

A good reputation is more valuable than money.
Publilius Syrus

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.
Publilius Syrus

A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.
Publilius Syrus

A wise man will be the master of his mind. A fool will be it's slave.
Publilius Syrus

A woman either loves or hates; there is no third.
Publilius Syrus

A woman, when she thinks alone, thinks badly.
Publilius Syrus

A wound born in victory is a wound without pain.
Publilius Syrus

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
Publilius Syrus

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
Publilius Syrus

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
Publilius Syrus

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
Publilius Syrus

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.
Publilius Syrus

Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence.
Publilius Syrus

Confidence, like the soul, never returns, whence it has departed.
Publilius Syrus

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
Publilius Syrus

Courage comes by being brave; fear comes by holding back.
Publilius Syrus

Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
Publilius Syrus

Debt is the slavery of the free.
Publilius Syrus

Delay is hateful, but it gives wisdom.
Publilius Syrus

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Publilius Syrus

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
Publilius Syrus

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.
Publilius Syrus

Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time.
Publilius Syrus

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.
Publilius Syrus

Familiarity breeds contempt.
Extensive knowledge of or close association with someone or something leads to a loss of respect for them or it.
Attributed to numerous authors.
Publilius Syrus

Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.
Publilius Syrus

Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
Publilius Syrus

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.
Publilius Syrus

Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.
Publilius Syrus

He gets through too late who goes too fast.
Publilius Syrus

He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.
Publilius Syrus

He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.
Publilius Syrus

He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
Publilius Syrus

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.
Publilius Syrus

He who spares the bad injures the good.
Publilius Syrus

He who yields to his times acts wisely.
Publilius Syrus

He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.
Publilius Syrus

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Publilius Syrus

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
Publilius Syrus

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
Publilius Syrus

In quarreling the truth is always lost.
Publilius Syrus

It is a bad plan that cannot be changed.
Publilius Syrus

It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
Publilius Syrus

It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
Publilius Syrus

It is bad advice that cannot be altered.
Publilius Syrus

It is better to learn late than never.
Publilius Syrus

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
Publilius Syrus

It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.
Publilius Syrus

It is not every question that deserves an answer.
Publilius Syrus

It is only the ignorant who despise education.
Publilius Syrus

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
Publilius Syrus

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
Publilius Syrus

Let those love now, who never loved before; let those who always loved, now love all the more.
Publilius Syrus

Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself.
Publilius Syrus

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Publilius Syrus

Money alone sets all the world in motion.
Publilius Syrus

Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
Publilius Syrus

Never promise more than you can perform.
Publilius Syrus

No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Publilius Syrus

No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.
Publilius Syrus

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.
Publilius Syrus

One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid.
Publilius Syrus

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
Publilius Syrus

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.
Publilius Syrus

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
Publilius Syrus

Practice is the best of all instructors.
Publilius Syrus

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Publilius Syrus

Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.
Publilius Syrus

Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.
Publilius Syrus

Successful guilt is the bane of society.
Publilius Syrus

Take care that no one hates you justly.
Publilius Syrus

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.
Publilius Syrus

The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.
Publilius Syrus

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
Publilius Syrus

The fear of death is more to be dreaded then fear itself.
Publilius Syrus

The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.
Publilius Syrus

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
Publilius Syrus

The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted.
Publilius Syrus

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
Publilius Syrus

The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.
Publilius Syrus

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.
Publilius Syrus

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
Publilius Syrus

The person who receives the most favours is the one who knows how to return them.
Publilius Syrus

The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.
Publilius Syrus

The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.
Publilius Syrus

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
Publilius Syrus

The things which belong to others please us more, and that which is ours, is more pleasing to others.
Publilius Syrus

The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
Publilius Syrus

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.
Publilius Syrus

The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.
Publilius Syrus

The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.
Publilius Syrus

There are some remedies worse than the disease.
Publilius Syrus

There is a great difference between being born wise and only looking it.
Publilius Syrus

There is always victory when there is agreement.
Publilius Syrus

They live ill who expect to live always.
Publilius Syrus

Those who have never tried the experiment of a holy life measure the laws of God, not by their intrinsical goodness, but by the reluctancy and opposition which they find in their hearts.
Publilius Syrus

To accept a favour is to sell one's freedom.
Publilius Syrus

To do two things at once is to do neither.
Publilius Syrus

To refuse graciously is to confer a favour.
Publilius Syrus

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
Publilius Syrus

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
Publilius Syrus

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
Publilius Syrus

We die as often as we lose a friend.
Publilius Syrus

What is left when honour is lost?
Publilius Syrus

When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favour on all.
Publilius Syrus

When reason rules, money is a blessing.
Publilius Syrus

Where there is unity there is always victory.
Publilius Syrus

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
Publilius Syrus

You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.
Publilius Syrus

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
Publilius Syrus

You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.
Publilius Syrus

You should make a woman angry if you wish her to love.
Publilius Syrus

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Thomas Szasz

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Albert Szent-Györgyi

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