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Sachs, A.
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
Saint Francis of Assisi
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
Saint Francis of Assisi
Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Saint Theresa of Avila
Pain is never permanent.
Saint Theresa of Avila
She who laughs, lasts.
Saint Edna Vincent Millay
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another&emdash;it's one damn thing over and over.
Saint Edna Vincent Millay
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.
Safire, William
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
Sandburg, Carl
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Sappho
Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
Saroyan, William
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
Sarton, May
The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
Sayers, Dorothy
The worst sin&emdash;perhaps the only sin&emdash;passion can commit, is to be joyless.
Sayers, Dorothy
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
Schabaker, Ruth Ann
Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.
Schachtel, Hyman Judah
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a person of talent tries to use it.
Schultz, Charles
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Schulz, Charles
I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.
Schulz, Charles M.
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
Schwab, Charles
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Schwartz, Elias
Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.
Schweitzer, Albert
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Schweitzer, Albert
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Schwenck Gilbert, Sir William
Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.
Scott, Sir Walter
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.
To which J.R. Pope added:
But when we've practiced quite a while, how vastly we improve our style.
Scottish Proverb
Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight.
Scully, Frank
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
Seinfeld, Jerry
Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV.
Seitz, Nick
The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition.
Seidler, Maren, American shot put champion
The dream of the typical American girl-next-door still doesn't include a good pair of quadriceps.
Seinfeld, Jerry
Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.
Seinfield, Jerry
The big advantage of a book is it's very easy to easy rewind. Close it and you're right back at the beginning.
Seitz, Nick
The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition.
Seneca
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful when your own self-love might impair your judgement.
Seneca
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca the Younger
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
Semenya, Caiphus
I've been stumbling and falling; I've got to get up and move on.
Serling, Rod
Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.
Service, Robert
Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out&emdash;it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Severn, Dave
Character is the ability to maintain a resolution, after the spirit in which it was made has passed.
Shakespeare, William
A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.
Shakespeare, William
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare, William
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
Shakespeare, William
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
Shakespeare, William
Suit the action to the word, word to action.
Shakespeare, William
What's done cannot be undone.
Shaw, George Bernard
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Shaw, George Bernard
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
Shaw, George Bernard
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage&emdash;it can be delightful.
Shaw, George Bernard
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
"Shawshank Redemption"
Get busy living, or get busy dying. Fear can hold you prisoner, hope can set you free.
"Shawshank Redemption"
Hope is a good thing; maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.
Shay, R.E.
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.
Sheehan, George
Happiness is different than pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
Shillinger, Lamont
Eschew obfuscation.
Shore, Dinah
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
Sigourney, Lydia
Whatever you would have your own children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.
Sills, Beverly
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Simon, Jose
In Mexico we have a word for sushi: Bait.
Sinise, Gary
Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working on the engines.
Sister Kenny
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
Smith, Anna Deavere
Each person has a literature inside them.
Smith, Antonio
Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Smith, Betty
I can never give a "yes" or "no." I don't believe everything in life can be settled by a monosyllable.
Smith, Betty
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
Smith, Logan Pearsall
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Smith, Margaret Chase
Freedom unexercised may become freedom forfeited.
Smith, Sydney
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
Smith, Sydney
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.
Smith, Will
Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
Smothers, Tommy
Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now blue-green meat, THAT'S bad for you!
Snead, Audrey
Some folks never exaggerate&emdash;they just remember big.
Sobel, Ben
Start writing a new chapter, for if you live by the book you'll never make history.
Sobran, Joseph
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means you recognize his superiority to yourself.
Solon
In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.
Solon
Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly.
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
Sophocles
It is easy to say no. To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows.
Sophocles
Life is, perhaps, after all, nothing more than the happiness that you get out of it.
Spanish Proverb
Life without a friend is death without a witness.
Spence, Gerry
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
Spencer, Charles
Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.
Spengler, Oswald
This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.
Spielberg, Steven
I dream for a living.
Spyri, Johanna
Anger makes us all stupid.
St. Johns, Adele Rogers
God made man, then said, I can do better than that and made woman.
Stafford, Jean
She did observe, with some dismay, that, far from conquering all, love lazily sidestepped practical problems.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
In a word, I am always busy, which is perhaps the reason I am always well.
Steffanson, Vilhjalmur
False modesty is better than none.
Steiger, Rod
The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.
Stein, Gertrude
No one is ahead of his time; it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept.
Steinem, Gloria
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
Steinem, Gloria
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
Steinem, Gloria
The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day . . . a movement is only people moving.
Steinem, Gloria
Writing . . . keeps me from believing everything I read.
Stevens, Cat
All I know is all I feel right now.
Stevens, Cat
Life is like a maze of doors.
Stevens, Earl Gary
Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all questions.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
Stevenson, Adlai Ewing Jr.
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
Stevenson, Robert Louis
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese&emdash;toasted, mostly.
Stevenson, Robert Louis
There is no duty we so much underrate than the duty of being happy.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
Streep, Meryl
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
Streisand, Barbra
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.
Stuart, Janet Erskine
In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life.
Stuart, Janet Erskine
We must never try to escape the obligation of living at our best.
Stewart, Maria
It is not the color of the skin that makes the man or the woman, but the principle formed in the soul. Brilliant wit will shine, come from whence it will; and genius and talent will not hide the brightness of its lustre.
Suyin, Han
Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
Swanson, Gloria
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
Swanson, Gloria
Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.
Swedish Proverb
Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.
Swedish proverb
Shared joy is doubled joy; shared sorrow is half sorrow.
Sweet, Ben
The greatest success is successful self-acceptance.
Swetchine, Anne-Sophie
We are only rich through what we give.
Swift, Jonathan
May you live all the days of your life.
Swift, Jonathan
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
Syrus, Publilius
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Szasz, Thomas
If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
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