Sei hochbeseligt oder leide! / Das Herz bedarf ein zweites Herz. / Geteilte Freud' ist doppelt Freude, / Geteilter Schmerz ist halber Schmerz.—Be joyful or sorrowful, the heart needs a second heart. Joy shared is joy doubled; pain shared is pain divided. Rückert.
Selbst erfinden ist schön; doch glücklich von andern Gefundnes, / Fröhlich erkannt und geschätzt, nennst du das weniger dein?—It is glorious to find out one's self, but call you that less yours which has been happily found out by others, and is with joy recognised and valued by you? Goethe.
Selbst gethan ist halb gethan—What you do 30 yourself is half done. Ger. Pr.
Seldom contented, often in the wrong, / Hard to be pleased at all, and never long. Dryden.
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. Bp. Hall.
Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort, / As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spirit, / That could be moved to smile at anything. Jul. Cæs., i. 2.
Seldom, in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want. Goethe.
Seldom is a life wholly wrecked but the cause 35 lies in some internal mal-arrangement, some want less of good fortune than of good guidance. Carlyle.
Self-complacence over the concealed destroys its concealment. Goethe.
Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness or a realisation of our duty and privilege as God's children. Phillips Brooks.
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. Johnson.
Self-deception is one of the most deadly of all dangers. Saying.
Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, 40 and the loftiest kind thereof comes only of a religious stock. Theo. Parker.
Self-denial is painful for a moment, but very agreeable in the end. Jane Taylor.
Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength there is strength, and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers. Bovee.
Self-interest, that leprosy of the age, attacks us from infancy, and we are startled to observe little heads calculate before knowing how to reflect. Mme. de Girardin.
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men. Goethe.
Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our 5 virtues. Goethe.
Self-love is a balloon inflated with wind, from which storms burst forth when one makes a puncture in it. Voltaire.
Self-love is not so vile a sin / As self-neglecting. Henry V., ii. 4.
Self-love is the instrument of our preservation. Voltaire.
Self-love may be, and as a fact often is, the first impulse that drives a man to seek to become morally and religiously better. J. C. Sharp.
Self loves itself best. Pr. 10
Self-murder! name it not; our island's shame! Blair.
Self-respect, the corner-stone of all virtue. Sir John Herschel.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, / These three alone lead life to sovereign power. / Yet not for power (power of herself / Would come uncall'd for), but to live by law, / Acting the law we live by without fear; / And, because right is right, to follow right, / Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence. Tennyson.
Self-trust is the essence of heroism. Emerson.
Self-trust is the first secret of success. Emerson. 15
Self-will is so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on. Cecil.
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself. Ward Beecher.
Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant. Mme. Roland.
Selig der, den er im Siegesglanze findet—Happy he whom he (Death) finds in battle's splendour. Goethe.
Selig wer sich vor der Welt, / Ohne Hass 20 verschliesst, / Einen Freund am Busen hält / Und mit dem geniesst—Happy he who without hatred shuts himself off from the world, holds a friend to his bosom, and enjoys life with him. Goethe.
Sell all thou hast, and give it to the poor, and follow me. Jesus.
Semel insanivimus omnes—We have all been at some time mad.
Semel malus, semper præsumitur esse malus—Once bad is to be presumed always bad. L.
Semen est sanguis Christianorum—The blood of us Christians is seed. Tertullian.
Semper ad eventum festinat—He always hastens 25 to the goal, or issue. M.
Semper Augustus—Always an enlarger of the empire. Symmachus.
Semper avarus eget; certum voto pete finem—The avaricious man is ever in want; let your desire aim at a fixed limit. Hor.
Semper bonus homo tiro—A good man is always green. Mart.
Semper eadem—Always the same. M.
Semper eris pauper, si pauper es, Æmiliane—If 30 you are poor, Emilian, you will always be poor. Mart.
Semper fidelis—Always faithful. M.
Semper habet lites alternaque jurgia lectus, / In quo nupta jacet; minimum dormitur in illo—The bed in which a wife lies is always the scene of quarrels and mutual recriminations; there is very little chance of sleep there. Juv.
Semper honos, nomenque tuum, laudesque manebunt—Thy honour, thy renown, and thy praises shall live for ever. Virg.
Semper idem—Always the same. M.
Semper inops, quicunque cupit—He who desires 35 more is always poor. Claud.
Semper paratus—Always ready. M.
Semper tibi pendeat hamus; / Quo minime credas gurgite, piscis erit—Have your hook always baited; in the pool where you least think it there will be a fish. Ovid.
Sempre il mal non vien per nuocere—Misfortune does not always result in harm. It. Pr.
Send a fool to France, and he'll come a fool back. Sc. Pr.
Send a fool to the market, and a fool he'll 40 return. Pr.
Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him. Pr.
Send your charity abroad wrapt in blankets. Pr.
Send your son to Ayr; if he did weel here, he'll do weel there. Sc. Pr.
Senilis stultitia, quæ deliratio appellari solet, senum levium est, non omnium—The foolishness of old age, which is termed dotage, does not characterise all who are old, but only those who are frivolous. Cic.
Seniores priores—The elder men first. 45
Sense can support herself handsomely, in most countries, for some eighteenpence a day; but for fantasy planets and solar systems will not suffice. Carlyle.
Sense hides shame. Gael. Pr.
Sense, shortness, and salt are the ingredients of a good proverb. Howell.
Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain. Colton.
Sensitive ears are good signs of health in 50 girls as in horses. Jean Paul.
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of ourselves. Bovee.
Sensuality is the grave of the soul. Channing.
Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memory. Diderot.
Sentiment has a kind of divine alchemy, rendering grief itself the source of tenderest thoughts and far-reaching desires, which the sufferer cherishes as sacred treasures. Talfourd.
Sentiment is intellectualised emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy. Lowell.
Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy. Mme. Delazy.
Sentimental literature, concerned with the analysis and description of emotion, headed by the poetry of Byron, is altogether of lower rank than the literature which merely describes what it saw. Ruskin.
Sentimentalism is that state in which a man 5 speaks deep and true, not because he feels things strongly, but because he perceives that they are beautiful, and touching and fine to say them—things that he fain would feel, and fancies that he does feel. F. W. Robertson.
Senza Cerere e Bacco, Venere e di ghiaccio—Without bread and wine love is cold (lit. without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus is of ice). It. Pr.
Septem convivium, novem convitium—Seven is a banquet, nine a brawl. Pr.
Septem horas dormisse sat est juvenique, senique—Seven hours of sleep is enough both for old and young. Pr.
Sepulchri / Mitte supervacuos honores—Discard the superfluous honours at the grave. Hor.
Sequiturque patrem non passibus æquis—And 10 he follows his father with unequal steps. Virg.
Sequor nec inferior—I follow, but am not inferior. M.
Sera in fundo parsimonia—Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse. Sen.
Serenity, health, and affluence attend the desire of rising by labour. Goldsmith.
Seriatim—In order; according to rank; in due course.
Series implexa causarum—The complicated 15 series of causes; fate. Sen.
Serit arbores quæ alteri sæculo prosint—He plants trees for the benefit of a future generation. From Statius.
Sermons in stones. As You Like It, ii. 1.
Sero clypeum post vulnera sumo—I am too late in taking my shield after being wounded. Pr.
Sero sapiunt Phryges—The Trojans became wise when too late. Pr.
Sero sed serio—Late, but seriously. M. 20
Sero venientibus ossa—The bones for those who come late. Pr.
Serpens ni edat serpentem, draco non fiet—Unless a serpent devour a serpent, it will not become a dragon, i.e., unless one power absorb another, it will not become great. Pr.
Serpentum major concordia; parcit / Cognatis maculis similis fera. Quando leoni / Fortior eripuit vitam leo?—There is greater concord among serpents than among men; a wild beast of a like kind spares kindred spots. When did a stronger lion deprive another of life? Juv.
Serum auxilium post prælium—Help comes too late when the fight is over. Pr.
Serus in cœlum redeas diuque / Lætus intersis 25 populo—May it be long before you return to the sky, and may you long move up and down gladly among your people. Hor. to Augustus.
Serva jugum—Preserve the yoke. M.
Servabo fidem—I will keep faith. M.
Servant of God, well done; well hast thou fought / The better fight. Milton.
Servants and houses should be suited to the situation. A gem should not be placed at the feet. The same is to be understood of an able man. Hitopadesa.
Servata fides cineri—Faithful to the memory of 30 my ancestors. M.
Serve the great; stick at no humiliation; grudge no office thou canst render; be the limb of their body, the breath of their mouth; compromise thy egotism. Emerson.
Servetur ad imum / Qualis ab incepto processerit, et sibi constet—Let the character be kept up to the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent. Hor.
Service is no inheritance. Fr. and It. Pr.
Serviet æternum, quia parvo nescit uti—He will be always a slave, because he knows not how to live upon little. Hor.
Servility and abjectness of humour is implicitly 35 involved in the charge of lying. Government of the Tongue.
Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery. Pr.
Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on servitude. Sen.
Ses rides sur son front ont gravé ses exploits—His furrows on his forehead testify to his exploits. Corn.
Sesquipedalia verba—Words a cubit long. Hor.
Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to 40 the devil. Pr.
Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop. Burton.
Set a stout heart to a stey (steep) brae. Sc. Pr.
Set a thief to catch a thief. Pr.
Set it down to thyself as well to create good precedents as to follow them. Bacon.
Set not your loaf in till the oven's hot. Pr. 45
Set out so / As all the day thou mayst hold out to go. George Herbert.
Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth. St. Paul.
Setz' dir Perrücken auf von Millionen Locken, / Setz' deinen Fuss auf ellenhohe Socken, / Du bleibst doch immer, was du bist—Clap on thee wigs with curls without number, set thy foot in ell-high socks, thou remainest notwithstanding ever what thou art. Goethe.
Seven cities warred for Homer being dead, / Who living had no roof to shroud his head. Heywood.
Seven Grecian cities vied for Homer dead, / 50 Through which the living Homer begged his bread. Leonidas.
Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, ten to the world allot, and all to heaven. Sir William Jones.
Seven times tried that judgment is / That did never choose amiss. Mer. of Ven., ii. 9.
Severæ Musa tragœdiæ—The Muse of solemn tragedy. Hor.
Severity breedeth fear, but roughness breedeth hate. Bacon.
Sewing at once a double thread, / A shroud as 55 well as a shirt. Hood.
Sex horas somno, totidem des legibus æquis: / Quatuor orabis, des epulisque duas. / Quod superest ultra, sacris largire Camenis—Give six hours to sleep, as many to the study of law; four hours you shall pray, and two give to meals: what is over devote to the sacred Muses. Coke.
Sexu fœmina, ingenio vir—In sex a woman, in natural ability a man. Epitaph of Maria Theresa.
Shadow owes its birth to light. Gay.
Shadows fall on brightest hours. Procter.
Shadows to-night / Have struck more terror 5 to the soul of Richard / Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers. Rich. III., v. 3.
Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, / And look on death itself. Macb., ii. 3.
Shakespeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity as to suggest a wealth that beggars his own; and we then feel that the splendid works which he has created, and which in other hours we extol as a sort of self-existent poetry, have no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing traveller on the rock. Emerson.
Shakespeare does not look at a thing merely, but into it, through it, so that he constructively comprehends it, can take it asunder and put it together again; the thing melts, as it were, into light under his eye, and anew creates itself before him. Carlyle.
Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they imagine they are producing themselves. Goethe.
Shakespeare is no sectarian; to all he deals 10 with equity and mercy; because he knows all, and his heart is wide enough for all. In his mind the world is a whole; he figures it as Providence governs it; and to him it is not strange that the sun should be caused to shine on the evil and the good, and the rain to fall on the just and the unjust. Carlyle.
Shakespeare is the greatest intellect who, in our recorded world, has left record of himself in the way of literature. I know not such power of vision, such faculty of thought in any other man, such calmness of depth; placid joyous strength; all things imaged in that great soul of his so true and clear, as in a tranquil unfathomable sea. A perfectly level mirror, that is to say withal, a man justly related to all things and men, a good man. Carlyle.
Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest. Emerson.
Shakespeare must have seemed a dull man at times, he was so flashingly brilliant at others. Bovee.
Shakespeare never permits a spirit to show itself but to men of the highest intellectual power. Ruskin.
Shakespeare says we are creatures that look 15 before and after; the more surprising that we do not look round a little and see what is passing under our very eyes. Carlyle.
Shakespeare stands alone. His want of erudition was a most happy and productive ignorance; it forced him back upon his own resources, which were exhaustless. Colton.
Shakespeare, the finest human figure, as I apprehend, that Nature has hitherto seen fit to make out of our widely-diffused Teutonic clay. I find no human soul so beautiful, these fifteen hundred known years—our supreme modern European man. Carlyle.
Shakespeare, the sage and seer of the human heart. H. Giles.
Shakespeare was forbidden of heaven to have any plans.... Not for him the founding of institutions, the preaching of doctrines, or the repression of abuses. Neither he, nor the sun, did on any morning that they rose together, receive charge from their Maker concerning such things. They were both of them to shine on the evil and good; both to behold unoffendingly all that was upon the earth, to burn unappalled upon the spears of kings, and undisdaining upon the reeds of the river. Ruskin.
Shakespeare (it is true) wrote perfect historical 20 plays on subjects belonging to the preceding centuries, (but) they are perfect plays just because there is no care about centuries in them, but a life which all men recognise for the human life of all time; ... a rogue in the fifteenth century being, at heart, what a rogue is in the nineteenth and was in the twelfth; and an honest or a knightly man being, in like manner, very similar to other such at any other time. Ruskin.
Shall horses run upon the rock? Will one plough there with oxen? Bible.
Shall we receive good at the hands of the Lord, and shall we not receive evil? Bible.
Shall we repine at a little misplaced charity, when an all-knowing, all-wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving? Atterbury.
Shall workmen just repeat the sin of kings and conquerors? / As the nations cease from battle, shall the classes rouse the fray, / And scatter wanton sorrow for a shilling more a day? Dr. Walter Smith.
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances.... 25 Strong men believe in cause and effect. Emerson.
Shallow streams make most din. Pr.
Shallow wits censure everything that is beyond their depth. Pr.
"Shalls" and "wills." Never trust a Scotch man or woman who does not come to grief among them. J. M. Barrie.
Shame is a feeling of profanation. Novalis.
Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks 30 in the web, it is wholly imperfect. Bulwer Lytton.
Shame is worse than death. Russ. Pr.
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. Sen.
Shame of poverty is almost as bad as pride of wealth. Pr.
Shapes that come not at an earthly call / Will not depart when mortal voices bid. Wordsworth.
Sharpness cuts slight things best; solid, nothing 35 cuts through but weight and strength; the same in the use of intellectuals. Sir W. Temple.
She bears a duke's revenues on her back. 2 Hen. VI., i. 3.
She (Wisdom) is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her. Bible.
She is a wife who is the soul of her husband. Hitopadesa.
She is a woman, therefore may be wooed; she is a woman, therefore may be won. Tit. Andron., ii. 1.
She is a woman who can command herself. Hitopadesa.
She is not worthy to be loved that hath not 5 some feeling of her own worthiness. Sir P. Sidney.
She lived unknown, and few could know / When Lucy ceased to be; / But she is in her grave, and oh / The difference to me! Wordsworth.
She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Bible.
She looks as if butter would not melt in her mouth. Swift.
She loved me for the dangers I had passed, / And I loved her that she did pity them. / This only is the witchcraft I have used. Othello, i. 3.
She never told her love, / But let concealment, 10 like a worm i' the bud, / Feed on her damask cheek. Twelfth Night, ii. 4.
She (i.e., Nature) only knows / How justly to proportion to the fault the punishment it merits. Shelley.
She pined in thought, / And with a green and yellow melancholy. / She sat like patience on a monument, / Smiling at grief. Twelfth Night, ii. 4.
She should be humble who would please, / And she must suffer who can love. Prior.
She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living with her; she would infect to the north star. Much Ado, ii. 1.
She that is ashamed to eat at table eats in 15 private. Pr.
She that is born handsome is born married. Pr.
She that rails ye into trembling / Only shows her fine dissembling; / But the fawner to abuse ye, / Thinks ye fools, and so will use ye. Dufrey.
She that takes gifts herself she sells, / And she that gives them does nothing else. Pr.
She that will not when she may, / When she will, she shall have nay. Murphy.
She watches him as a cat would watch a 20 mouse. Swift.
She wept to feel her life so desolate, / And wept still more because the world had made it / So desolate: yet was the world her all; / She loathed it, but she knew it was her all. Dr. Walter Smith.
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes. Goldsmith.
She's all my fancy painted her; / She's lovely, she's divine. William Mee.
She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd; / She's a woman, and therefore to be won. 1 Hen. VI., v. 3.
Sheathe thy impatience; throw cold water on 25 thy choler. Merry Wives, ii. 3.
Short allowance of victual, and plenty of nothing but Gospel! Longfellow.
Short boughs, long vintage. Pr.
Short lived is all rule but the rule of God. Gael. Pr.
Short-lived wits do wither as they grow. Love's L. Lost, ii. 1.
Short prayers reach heaven. Pr. 30
Short reckonings make long friends. Pr.
Short swallow-flights of song, that dip / Their wings in tears and skim away. Tennyson.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, / And never brought to mind? / Should auld acquaintance be forgot, / And days o' lang syne? Burns.
Should envious tongues some malice frame, / To soil and tarnish your good name, / Live it down. Dr. Henry Rink.
Should not the ruler have regard to the voice 35 of the people? Schiller.
Should one suffer what is intolerable? Schiller.
Show me one wicked man who has written poetry, and I will show you where his poetry is not poetry; or rather, I will show you in his poetry no poetry at all. Eliz. S. Shephard.
Show me the man who would go to heaven alone, and I will show you one who will never be admitted. Feltham.
Show me the man you honour; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be, and would thank the gods, with your whole soul, for being if you could. Carlyle.
"Show some pity?" "I show it most of all 40 when I show justice." Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.
Show the dullest clodpole, show the haughtiest featherhead, that a soul higher than himself is actually here; were his knees stiffened into brass, he must down and worship. Carlyle.
Shrine of the mighty! can it be / That this is all remains of thee? Byron.
Shrouded in baleful vapours, the genius of Burns was never seen in clear, azure splendour, enlightening the world; but some beams from it did, by fits, pierce through; and tinted those clouds with rainbow and orient colours into a glory and stern grandeur which men silently gazed on with wonder and tears. Carlyle.
Shun drugs and drinks which work the wit abuse: clear minds, clean bodies, need no Sôma juice. Sir Edwin Arnold.
Shut not thy purse-strings always against 45 painted distress. Lamb:.
Si ad naturam vivas, nunquam eris pauper; si ad opinionem, nunquam dives—If you live according to the dictates of Nature, you will never be poor; if according to the notions of men, you never will be rich. Sen.
Si antiquitatem spectes, est vetustissima; si dignitatem, est honoratissima; si jurisdictionem, est capacissima—If you consider its antiquity, it is most ancient; if its dignity, it is most honourable; if its jurisdiction, it is most extensive. Coke, of the English House of Commons.
Si bene commemini, causæ sunt quinque bibendi: / Hospitis adventus, præsens sitis, atque futura, / Aut vini bonitas, aut quælibet altera causa—If I remember right, there are five excuses for drinking: the visit of a guest, present thirst, thirst to come, the goodness of the wine, or any other excuse you choose. Père Sermond.
Si cadere necesse est, occurrendum discrimini—If we must fall, let us manfully face the danger. Tac.
Si caput dolet omnia, membra languent—If the head aches, all the members of the body become languid. Pr.
Si ce n'est pas là Dieu, c'est du moins son cousin-german—If that is not God, it is at least His cousin-german. Mirabeau, of the rising sun as he lay on his death-bed.
Si ce n'est toi, c'est ton frère—If you did 5 not do it, it was your brother. La Fontaine.
Si claudo cohabites, subclaudicare disces—If you live with a lame man you will learn to limp. Pr.
Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer—If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. Voltaire.
Si fecisti, nega; or nega, quod fecisti—If you did it, deny it. An old Jesuit maxim.
Si foret in terris, rideret Democritus—If Democritus were on earth now, he would laugh. Hor.
Si fortuna juvat, caveto tolli; / Si fortuna 10 tonat, caveto mergi—If fortune favours you, be not lifted up; if she fulminates, be not cast down. Auson.
Si fractus illabatur orbis, / Impavidum ferient ruinæ—If the world should fall in wreck about him, the ruins would crush him undaunted. Hor. of the upright man.
Si genus humanum, et mortalia temnitis arma; / At sperate Deos memores fandi atque nefandi—If you despise the human race and mortal arms, yet expect that the gods will not be forgetful of right and wrong. Virg.
Si gravis brevis, si longus levis—If severe, short; if long, light. Pr.
Si haces lo que estuviere de tu parte, / Pide al Cielo favor: ha de ayudarte—Hast thou done what was thy duty, trust Providence; He leaves thee not. Samaniego.
Si j'avais la main pleine de vérités, je me garderais 15 bien de l'ouvrir—If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it. Fontenelle.
Si j'avais le malheur d'être né prince—If I had had the misfortune of being born a prince. Rousseau, in the commencement of a letter to the Duke of Würtemberg, who had asked his advice about the education of his son.
Si je puis—If I can. M.
Si jeunesse savait! si vieillesse pouvait!—If youth knew; if age could! Pr.
Si judicas, cognosce; si regnas, jube—If you sit in judgment, investigate; if you possess supreme power, sit in command. Sen.
Si l'adversité te trouve toujours sur tes 20 pieds, la prospérité ne te fait pas aller plus vite—If adversity finds you always on foot, prosperity will not make you go faster. Fr. Pr.
Si la vie est misérable, elle est pénible à supporter; si elle est heureuse, il est horrible de la perdre. L'un revient à l'autre—If our life is unhappy, it is painful to bear, and if it is happy, it is horrible to lose it. Thus, the one is pretty equal to the other. La Bruyère.
Si leonina pellis non satis est, assuenda vulpina—If the lion's skin is not enough, we must sew on the fox's. Pr.
Si monumentum requiris, circumspice—If you seek his monument, look around. Inscription on St. Paul's, London, of Sir Christopher Wren.
Si natura negat, facit indignatio versum—If nature denies the power, indignation makes verses. Juv.
Si non errasset, fecerat ille minus—If he had 25 not committed an error, his glory would have been less. Mart.
Si nous n'avions point de défauts, nous ne prendrions pas tant de plaisir à en remarquer dans les autres—If we had no faults ourselves, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those of other people. La Roche.
Si nous ne nous flattions pas nous-mêmes, la flatterie des autres ne nous pourroit nuire—If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others would not harm us. Fr.
Si parva licet componere magnis—If I may be allowed to compare small things with great. Virg.
Si possis suaviter, si non quocunque modo—Gently if you can; if not, by some means or other.
Si qua voles apte nubere, nube pari—If you 30 wish to marry suitably, marry your equal. Ovid.
Si quid novisti rectius istis, / Candidus imperti; si non, his utere mecum—If you know anything better than these maxims, frankly impart them to me; if not, use these like me. Hor.
Si quis—If any one, i.e., has objections to offer.
Si, quoties homines peccant, sua fulmina mittat / Jupiter, exiguo tempore inermis erit—If, as oft as men sin, Jove were to hurl his thunderbolts, he would soon be without weapons to hurl. Ovid.
Si sit prudentia—If you are but guided by prudence. M. from Juv.
Si tibi deficiant medici, medici tibi fiant / Hæc 35 tria; mens hilaris, requies, moderata diæta—If you stand in need of medical advice, let these three things be your physician: a cheerful mind, relaxation from business, and a moderate diet. Schola Salern.
Si tibi vis omnia subjicere, te subjice rationi—If you wish to subject everything to yourself, subject yourself first to reason. Sen.
Si trovano più ladri que forche—There are more thieves than gibbets. It. Pr.
Si veut le roi, si veut la loi—So wills the king, so wills the law. Fr. L.
Si vis amari, ama—If you wish to be loved, love. Sen.
Si vis me flere, dolendum est / Primum ipsi tibi—If 40 you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself. Hor.
Si vis pacem, para bellum—If you wish for peace, be ready for war.
Sic ait, et dicto citius tumida æquora placat—So speaks the god, and quicker than he speaks he smoothes the swelling seas. Virg.
Sic erat in fatis—So stood it in the decrees of fate. Ovid.
Sic fac omnia ... tanquam spectet aliquis—Do everything as in the eye of another. Sen.
Sic itur ad astra—This is the way to the stars. Virg.
Sic leve, sic parvum est, animum quod laudis avarum / Subruit ac reficit—So light, so insignificant a thing is that which casts down or revives a soul that is greedy of praise. Hor.
Sic me servavit Apollo—Thus was I served by 5 Apollo. Hor.
Sic omnia fatis / In pejus ruere et retro sublapsa referri—Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde. Virg.
Sic præsentibus utaris voluptatibus, ut futuris non noceas—So enjoy present pleasures as not to mar those to come. Sen.
Sic transit gloria mundi—It is so the glory of the world passes away.
Sic utere tuo ut alienum non lædas—So use what is your own as not to injure what is another's. L.
Sic visum Veneri, cui placet impares / Formas, 10 atque animos sub juga ahenea / Sævo mittere cum joco—Such is the will of Venus, whose pleasure it is in cruel sport to subject to her brazen yoke persons and tempers ill-matched. Hor.
Sich mitzutheilen ist Natur; Mitgetheiltes aufnehmen, wie es gegeben wird, ist Bildung—It is characteristic to Nature to impart itself; to take up what is imparted as it is given is culture. Goethe.
Sich selbst bekämpfen ist der allerschwerste Krieg; / Sich selbst besiegen ist der allerschönste Sieg—To maintain a conflict with one's self is the hardest of all wars; to overcome one's self is the noblest of all victories. Logau.
Sich selbst hat niemand ausgelernt—No man ever yet completed his apprenticeship. Goethe.
Sich über das Höherstehende alles Urtheils zu enthalten, ist eine zu edle Eigenschaft, als das häufig sein könnte—To refrain from all criticism of what ranks above us is too noble a virtue to be of every-day occurrence. W. v. Humboldt.
Sickness is catching; Oh, were favour so, / 15 Yours would I catch, sweet Hernia, ere I go; / My ear would catch your voice, my eye your eye, / My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody. Mid. N.'s Dream, i. 1.
Sicut ante—As before.
Sicut columba—As a dove. M.
Sicut lilium—As a lily. M.
Sie glauben mit einander zu streiten, / Und fühlen das Unrecht von beiden Seiten—They think they are quarrelling with one another, and both sides feel they are in the wrong. Goethe.
Sie scheinen mir aus einem edeln Haus, / Sie 20 sehen stolz und zufrieden aus—They appear to me of a noble family; they look proud and contented. Goethe, Frosch in the witches' cellar in "Faust."
Sie sind voll Honig die Blumen; / Aber die Biene nur findet die Süssigkeit aus—The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness. Goethe.
Sie streiten um ein Ei, und lassen die Henne fliegen—They dispute about an egg, and let the hens fly away. Ger. Pr.
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more! / Men were deceivers ever; / One foot in sea and one on shore, / To one thing constant never. Percy.
Sight before hearsay. Dan. Pr.
Sight must be reinforced by insight before 25 souls can be discerned as well as manners, ideas as well as objects, realities and relations as well as appearances and accidental connections. Whipple.
Silence and discretion are specially becoming in a woman, and to remain quietly at home. Euripides.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. Plutarch.
Silence gives (or implies) consent. Pr.
Silence is a friend that will never betray. Confucius.
Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, 30 and gives us leave to be great and universal. Emerson.
Silence is better than unmeaning words. Pythagoras.
Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time. Carlyle.
Silence is more eloquent than words. Carlyle.
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. Cic.
Silence is the best resolve for him who distrusts 35 himself. La Roche.
Silence is the chaste blossom of love. Heine.
Silence is the consummate eloquence of sorrow. W. Winter.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule. Carlyle.
Silence is the eternal duty of man. He won't get to any real understanding of what is complex, and what is more than any other pertinent to his interests, without maintaining silence. Carlyle.
Silence is the mother of truth. Disraeli. 40
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy; I were but little happy, if I could say how much. Much Ado, ii. 1.
Silence is the sanctuary of discretion (Klugheit). It not only conceals secrets but also faults. Zachariä.
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. Bacon.
Silence is wisdom, when speaking is folly. Pr.
Silence often expresses more powerfully than 45 speech the verdict and judgment of society. Disraeli.
Silence, silence; and be distant, ye profane, with your jargonings and superficial babblements, when a man has anything to do. Carlyle.
Silent leges inter arma—Laws are silent in time of war. Cic.
Silent men, like still waters, are deep and dangerous. Pr.
Silver from the living / Is gold in the giving: / Gold from the dying / Is but silver a-flying. / Gold and silver from the dead / Turn too often into lead. Fuller.
Simel et simul—Once and together.
Simile gaudet simili—Like loves like. Pr.
Similia similibus curantur—Like things are cured by like.
Simpering is but a lay-hypocrisy: / Give it a corner and the clue undoes. George Herbert.
Simple as it seems, it was a great discovery 5 that the key of knowledge could turn both ways, that it could open, as well as lock, the door of power to the many. Lowell.
Simple gratitude, untinctured with love, is all the return an ingenuous mind can bestow for former benefits. Love for love is all the reward we expect or desire. Goldsmith.
Simplex sigillum veri—Simplicity is the seal of truth. M. of Boerhave.
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style: in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity. Longfellow.
Simplicity is in the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him. Thomas à Kempis.
Simplicity is Nature's first step, and the last 10 of art. P. J. Bailey.
Simplicity is, of all things, the hardest to be copied. Steele.
Simplicity is the straightforwardness of a soul which refuses to reflect on itself or its deeds. Many are sincere without being simple; they do not wish to be taken for other than they are, but they are always afraid of being taken for what they are not. Fénelon.
Sin every day takes out a patent for some new invention. Whipple.
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. Holmes.
Sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth 15 but a sting in its tail. H. Ballou.
Sin is not a monster to be mused on, but an impotence to be got rid of. Matthew Arnold.
Sin is too dull to see beyond himself. Tennyson.
Sin seen from the thought is a diminution or loss; seen from the conscience or will, it is a pravity or bad. Emerson.
Since every Jack became a gentleman, / There's many a gentle person made a Jack. Rich. III., i. 3.
Since grief but aggravates thy loss, / Grieve 20 not for what is past. Percy.
Since not only judgments have their awards, but mercies their commissions, snatch not at every favour, nor think thyself passed by if they fall upon thy neighbour. Sir T. Browne.
Since the invention of printing no state can now any longer be formed purely, slowly, and by degrees from itself. Jean Paul.
Since time is not a person we can overtake when he is past, let us honour him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing. Goethe.
Since trifles make the sum of human things, / And half our misery from our foibles springs. Hannah More.
Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for 25 cheesecakes. Cervantes.
Sincere wise speech (even) is but an imperfect corollary, and insignificant outer manifestation of sincere wise thought. Carlyle.
Sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic. Carlyle.
Sincerity gives wings to power. (?)
Sincerity is impossible unless it pervades the whole being; and the pretence saps the very foundations of character. Lowell.
Sincerity is the face of the soul, as dissimulation 30 is the mask. Daniel Dubay.
Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion. Kant.
Sincerity is the way to heaven. To think how to be sincere is the way of man. Confucius.
Sincerity is true wisdom. Tillotson.
Sincerity makes the least man to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. Spurgeon.
Sine amicitia vitam esse nullam—There is no 35 life without friendship. Cic.
Sine Cerere et Baccho, friget Venus—Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus will starve to death, i.e., without sustenance and good cheer, love can't last. Ter.
Sine cortica natare—To swim without bladders.
Sine cura—Without care, i.e., in receipt of a salary without a care or office.
Sine die—Without appointing a day.
Sine invidia—Without envy; from no invidious 40 feeling.
Sine ira et studio—Without aversion and without preference. Tac.
Sine nervis—Without force; weak.
Sine odio—Without hatred.
Sine prole—Without offspring.
Sine qua non—An indispensable condition, lit. 45 without which not.
Sine virtute esse amicitia nullo pacto potest—There cannot possibly be friendship without virtue. Sall.
Singing should enchant. Joubert.
Singula de nobis anni prædantur euntes—The years as they pass bereave us first of one thing and then another. Hor.
Singula quid referam? nil non mortale tenemus, / Pectoris exceptis ingeniique bonis—Why go I into details? we have nothing that is not perishable, except what our hearts and our intellects endow us with. Ovid.
Singularity shows something wrong in the 50 mind. Clarissa.
Sink not in spirit: who aimeth at the sky / Shoots higher much than he that means a tree. George Herbert.
Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart would be overboard. Ward Beecher.
Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, / while resignation gently slopes the way. Goldsmith.
Sins and debts are aye mair than we think them. Sc. Pr.
Sint ut sunt, aut non sint—Let them be as they 55 are, or not at all.
Sir, a well-placed dash makes half the wit of our writers of modern humour. Goldsmith.
Sir Fine-face, Sir Fair-hands; but see thou to it / That thine own fineness, Lancelot, some fine day / Undo thee not. Tennyson.
Sir, he hath fed of the dainties that are bred in a book. Love's L. Lost, iv. 2.
Sire, je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse—Your Majesty, I had no need of that hypothesis. Laplace's answer to Napoleon, who had asked why in his "Méchanique Céleste" he had made no mention of God.
Sirve a señor, y sabras que es dolor—Serve a great lord, and you will know what sorrow is. Sp. Pr.
Siste, viator—Stop, traveller. 5
Sit in your own place, and no man can make you rise. Pr.
Sit mihi quod nunc est, etiam minus; ut mihi vivam / Quod superest ævi, si quid superesse volunt Di—May I continue to possess what I have now, or even less; so I may live the remainder of my days after my own plan, if the gods will that any should remain. Hor.
Sit piger ad pœnas princeps, ad præmia velox—A prince should be slow to punish, prompt to reward. Ovid.
Sit sine labe decus—Let my honour be without stain. M.
Sit tibi terra levis—May earth lie light upon 10 thee.
Sit tua cura sequi; me duce tutus eris—Be it your care to follow; with me for your guide you will be safe. Ovid.
Sit venia verbis—Pardon my words.
Sive pium vis hoc, sive hoc muliebre vocari; / Confiteor misero molle cor esse mihi—Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish, I confess that to my misfortune it is soft. Ovid.
Six feet of earth make all men equal. Pr.
Six hours to sleep allot: to law be six addressed; 15 / Pray four: feast two: the Muses claim the rest. On the fly-leaf of an old lawbook from Coke. See Sex horas, &c.
[Greek: skias onar anthrôpoi]—Men are the dream of a shadow. Pindar.
Skilful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. Epicurus.
Skill is stronger than strength. Pr.
Skill is the united force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation on manual labour. Ruskin.
Skill to do comes of doing; knowledge comes 20 by eyes always open, and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power. Emerson.
Sky is the part of creation in which Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her. Ruskin.
Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, / Though he alight sometimes, still goeth on. George Herbert.
Slander and detraction can have no influence, can make no impression, upon the righteous Judge above. None to thy prejudice, but a sad and fatal one to their own. Thomas à Kempis.
Slander expires at a good woman's door. Dan. Pr.
Slander is a poison which extinguishes charity, 25 both in the slanderer and the person who listens to it. St. Bernard.
Slander lives upon succession; / For ever housed, where it once gets possession. Com. of Errors, iii. 1.
Slander, / Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue / Out-venoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath / Rides on the parting winds, and doth belie / All corners of the world. Cymbeline, iii. 4.
Slander's mark was ever yet the fair; / ... A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air. Shakespeare.
Slanderers do not hurt me, because they do not hit me. Socrates.
Slave or free is settled in heaven for a man. 30 Carlyle.
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, / But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. Pope.
Slave to silver's but a slave to smoke. Quarles.
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. Burke.
Slavery is an inherent inheritance of a large portion of the human race, to whom the more you give of their own free will, the more slaves they will make themselves. Ruskin.
Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their 35 lungs / Receive our air, that moment they are free; / They touch our country, and their shackles fall. Cowper.
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, / Ease after war, death after life, doth greatly please. Spenser.
Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, / Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace. Pope's Homer.
Sleep, gentle sleep, / Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, / That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, / And steep my senses in forgetfulness? 2 Hen. IV., iii. 1.
Sleep hath its own world, / A boundary between the things misnamed / Death and Existence. Byron.
Sleep is for the inhabitants of planets only; in 40 another time men will sleep and wake continually at once. The great part of our body, of our humanity, yet sleeps a deep sleep. (?)
Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles. Cervantes.
Sleep is the sole reviver (Labsal) of the afflicted. Platen.
Sleep is to a man what winding up is to a clock. Schopenhauer.
Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree. Emerson.
Sleep no more, / Macbeth does murder sleep. 45 Macb., ii. 2.
Sleep seldom visits sorrow; when it doth, / It is a comforter. Tempest, i. 1.
Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, / The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, / Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, / Chief nourisher in life's feast. Macb., ii. 2.
Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye. Mid. N.'s Dream, iii. 2.
Sleep, the antechamber of the grave. Jean Paul.
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, / Morn of toil, nor night of waking. Scott.
Slight not the smallest loss, whether it be / In love or honour; take account of all: / Shine like the sun in every corner: see / Whether thy stock of credit swell or fall. George Herbert.
Slippery is the flagstone at the great house door. Gael. Pr.
Sloth is the key to poverty. Pr. 5
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labour wears, while the used key is always bright. Ben. Franklin.
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy. Ben. Franklin.
Sloth never arrived at the attainment of a good wish. Cervantes.
Sloth turneth the edge of wit, study sharpeneth the mind; a thing, be it never so easy, is hard to the idle; a thing, be it never so hard, is easy to wit well employed. John Lily.
Slovenly (a) and negligent manner of writing 10 is a disobliging mark of want of respect. Blair.
Slow and steady wins the race. Lloyd.
Slow fire makes sweet malt. Pr.
Slow-footed counsel is most sure to gain; / Rashness still brings repentance in her train. Lucian.
Slow help is no help. Pr.
Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd. Johnson. 15
Slow to resolve, but in performance quick. Dryden.
Slowly and sadly we laid him down, / From the field of his fame fresh and gory: / We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, / But we left him alone with his glory. Wolfe.
Sma' fish are better than nane. Sc. Pr.
Small cheer and great welcome make a merry feast. Com. of Errors, iii. 1.
Small curs are not regarded when they grin; / 20 But great men tremble when the lion roars. 2 Hen. VI., iii. 1.
Small curses upon great occasions are but so much waste of our strength and soul's health to no manner of purpose; they are like sparrow-shot fired against a bastion. Sterne.
Small debts are like small shot—they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound. Great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but of little danger. Johnson.
Small draughts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger bring back to God. Bacon.
Small faults indulged let in greater. Pr.
Small have continued plodders ever won / Save 25 bare authority from others' books. Love's L. Lost, i. 1.
Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace. Rich. III., ii. 4.
Small is it that thou canst trample the earth with its injuries under thy foot, as old Greek Zeno trained thee: thou canst love the earth while it injures thee, and even because it injures thee; for this a Greater than Zeno was needed, and he too was sent. Carlyle.
Small Latin and less Greek. Ben Jonson of Shakespeare's knowledge.
Small-pot-soon-hot style of eloquence is what our county conventions often exhibit. Emerson.
Small profits and quick returns. Pr. 30
Small rain lays great dust. Pr.
Small service is true service while it lasts. / Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn not one: / The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, / Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun. Wordsworth, to a child.
Small thanks to the man for keeping his hands clean who would not touch the work but with gloves on. Carlyle.
Smallest of mortals, when mounted aloft by circumstances, come to seem great, smallest of phenomena connected with them are treated as important, and must be sedulously scanned, and commented on with loud emphasis. Carlyle.
Smelfungus in the grand portico of the Pantheon 35 says, "'Tis nothing but a huge cockpit." Sterne.
Smile (Fortune), and we smile, the lords of many lands; / Frown, and we smile, the lords of our own hands; / For man is man and master of his fate. Tennyson.
Smiles are the language of love. Hare.
Smiles form the channel of a future tear. Byron.
Smiles from reason flow, / To brute denied, and are of love the food. Milton.
Smooth runs the water where the brook is 40 deep; / And in his simple show he harbours treason. / The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb. 2 Henry VI., iii. 1.
Smooth waters run deep. Pr.
Smooth words make smooth ways. Pr.
Smuler ere og Bröd—Even crumbs are bread. Dan. Pr.
Snarl if you please, but you shall snarl without. Dryden.
Snatch from the ashes of your sires / The 45 embers of their former fires; / And he who in the strife expires / Will add to theirs a name of fear / That tyranny shall quake to hear, / And leave his sons a hope, a fame, / They too would rather die than shame. Byron.
So behave that the odour of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere. Thoreau.
So careful of the type she seems, / So careless of the single life. Tennyson.
So comes a reckoning when the banquet's o'er,—/ The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more. Gay.
So dawning day has brought relief—/ Fareweel our night o' sorrow. Burns.
So dress and so conduct yourself that persons 50 who have been in your company will not recollect what you had on. Rev. John Newton.
So far as a man thinks he is free. Emerson.
So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other. Johnson.
So full of shapes is fancy, that it alone is high-fantastical. Twelfth Night, i. 1.
So gieb mir auch die Zeiten wieder, / Da ich noch selbst im Werden war—Then give me back the time when I myself was still a-growing. Goethe.
So, here hath been dawning / Another blue day; / Think wilt thou let it / Slip useless away. / Out of Eternity / This new day is born; / Into Eternity / At night doth return. / Behold it aforetime / No eye ever did: / So soon it for ever / From all eyes is hid. / Here hath been dawning, &c. Carlyle on To-day.
So I do my part to others, let them think of me what they will or can.... If I should regard such things, it were in another's power to defeat my charity, and evil should be stronger than good. But difficulties are so far from cooling Christians that they whet them. George Herbert.
So lang man lebt, sei man lebendig—So long 5 as you live, be living. Goethe.
So live with men, as if God saw you; so speak to God, as if men heard you. Sen.
So lonely 'twas, that God himself / Scarce seeméd there to be. Coleridge.
So long as a man is capable of self-renewal he is a living being. Amiel.
So long as any Ideal (any soul of truth) does, in never so confused a manner, exist and work within the Actual, it is a tolerable business. Not so when the Ideal has wholly departed, and the Actual owns to no soul of truth any longer. Carlyle.
So long as the "Holy Place" in their souls 10 is left in possession of powerless opinions, men are practically without God in this world. Froude.