Quotations Page 'S'

The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.

- New Testament -

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Sunday is the golden clasp the binds together the volume of the week.

- Longfellow -

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Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice, and therefore not violance.

- M. Gandhi -

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A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art and is full of true joy.

- M. Gandhi -

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Take my word for it, the saddest thing under the sky is a soul incapable of sadness.

- Countess De Gasparin -

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The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.

- Emarson, English Traits -

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....out of the nette, danger, we pluck this flower safety.There are many (questionless) canonised on earth that shall never be Saints in Heaven.

- Sir T. Browne -

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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

- Oscar Wilde -

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A saint is a man of convictions who has been dead a hundred years, canonized now but canonaded while living.

- H.L. Wayland -

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....a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

- Carvantes, Don Quixote -

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Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover every face but their own.

- Swift, battle of Books -

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With pleasure drugged, he almost longed for woe.

- Byron -

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How awful to reflect that people say of us true is true.

- L.P. Smith -

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Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise.

- Pope -

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In scandal, as in robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.

- Lord Chesterfield -

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A woman smells of nothing.

- Plautu -

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Scepticism is slow suicide.

- Emerson -

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The world's great men have not commonly great scholars, nor its great scholars, great men.

- O.W. Holmens, Autocrat -

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Science moves but slowly creeping on from point to point.

- Tennyson, Locksley Hall -

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