Quotes Se-Sh
"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist-" -- General John Sedgewick's
last words
"If an ordinary person is silent it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is
silent, he is lying." -- Jaroslav Seifert
"The phrase 'working mother' is redundant." -- Jane Sellman
"The best cure for anger is delay." -- Seneca
"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage." -- Seneca
"non schol� sed vit� discimus" ("we do not learn for school, but for
life") -- Seneca
"It takes courage and skill to be unambiguous and clear." -- Peter Senge
"I like nonsense. It wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary
ingredient in living." -- Dr. Seuss
"It's a troublesome world. All the people who're in it are troubled with
troubles almost every minute. You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot,
for the places and people you're lucky you're not!" -- Dr. Seuss
"Be who you are, say what you want, because those who mind don't matter,
and those who matter don't mind." -- Dr. Seuss
"The man that hath no music in himself
Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils;
The motions of his spirit are dull as night
And his affections dark as Erebus
Let no such man be trusted." -- William Shakespeare
"O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it
like a giant." -- William Shakespeare
"Our doubts are traitors,
and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt." -- William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, I. iv
"If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you
cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?" -- Shantideva
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food." -- George Bernard Shaw
"The English are not a very spiritual people, so that invented cricket to
give them some idea of eternity." -- George Bernard Shaw
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."
-- William Shedd
"Nothing in this world is single;
All things by a law divine in each other's being mingle."
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Love's Philosophy"
"The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words
return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy." -- Florence Shinn
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