Gabriela Sabatini
When I lose a match, I know that I lose on the court and not in life.
A. Sachs
Everyone dies, but not everyone lives.
Anwar Sadat
Peace is more precious than a piece of land.
Marquis de Sade
Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
He is a most fortunate person who has the means to satisfy his every whim.
Neither wickedness nor virtue per se bring happiness, but only the way you look at those and then make your choice entirely according to your own nature.
How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! ... The means to every crime are ours, and we apply them all and multiply the horror a hundred times..
Have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?
Evil is a moral entity and not an invented one. It is an eternal entity and won't go away. It existed before the world existed. It installed the monstrous and awful being who then went about to create such a hideous world. Hence, it will continue to exist after the creatures which populate this world.
Every principle is a judgement and every judgement is the sum of experience, and experience results only from the employment of our senses. From this follows that religious principles have no base whatever and are not at all inherent. Ignorance and fear - repeat: ignorance and fear are every religion's twin bases.
William Safire
Clean words can mask dirty deeds.
Carl Sagan
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about
science and technology.
Françoise Sagan
Who is sad without a reason has reason to be sad.
People who are bedded on roses will whine about thorns all the time.
Mort Sahl (American comedian)
A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Man's salvation is to take a step. Then another step.
To see clearly it often needs only a change of angle.
Accept the day as it comes instead of battling the inevitable.
We only see well with our heart. The essential remains invisible to the eye.
Love doesn't just mean looking at each other, it means looking in the same direction.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, from the zest of creating things new.
To be human means to be responsible. ... It is to feel, when setting one's stone, to do one's share in the building of the world.
Charity never humiliated those who gained from it, nor tied them down by chains of gratitude, because it was not to them but to God the gift was offered.
Yves Saint- Laurent
Fashions fade, but style is eternal.
I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity -- all I hope for in my clothes.
Enric Sala
The more nature we have, the more nature will be able to absorb our impacts.
J.D.Salinger
The sun only comes out when it feels like coming out. (‘The Catcher in the Rye')
Sallust
Who is angry about everything will also be angry about nothing.
Paul Samuelson (economist)
The stockmarket has predicted nine of the past five recessions.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
Poetry is the journal, of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.
George Santayana
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.
The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.
The little word "is" has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.
Marilyn dos Santos
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Nicolas Sarkozy
We can only save capitalism by rebuilding it, by restoring its moral dimension.
Laissez-faire is finished. The all-powerful market that always knows best is finished.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Hell is other people.
Maybe there are better times, but this one is our's.
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
A political system devoted to decline instinctively does much to speed up the process.
We only become what we are by the radical ... refusal of that which others have made of us.
The sensitive person doesn't suffer from this or that, but simply because nothing in the whole wide world can ever quench his longing.
Mosche Lob von Sasow
A person who doesn't own at least one hour every day is not human.
Ryunosuke Satoro
Individually, we are a drop. Together we are an ocean.
Sameera Savarala
Just a reminder that a better world is possible.
Rabbi H. Schachtel
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Simon Schama
Feelings of inadequacy are the sine qua non of good work.
Historians are ... forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot.
Friedrich von Schiller
Man grows as his ambitions grow.
United even the powerless gain power.
Stay faithful to the dreams of your youth.
Love is the ladder we climb to something God-like.
How poor you have become since you don't love anybody but yourself.
Fabian von Schlabrendorff
The moral value of a person only begins when he is prepared to give his life for his convictions.
One of the preconditions for the rise of a charismatic politician is an existential crisis that disrupts conventional thinking.
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
Literature is the immortality of speech.
Eric Schmidt
The Google policy on a lot of things is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it.
Helmut Schmidt (former German Chancellor)
Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must get there in small steps.
The trouble is: the dumb ones are so self-assured and the intelligent ones so full of doubt.
Arthur Schnitzler
It is not politeness if you insist to carry the stick of the lame.
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
Olaf Scholz
The first rule for a politician is to be yourself.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Loneliness is the fate of genius.
Fate shuffles the cards, we play.
Sleep is winding-up of the clock.
Every evening we are one day poorer.
History is the continuation of zoology.
Even chance is necessity arrived via a detour.
To the vain even a puddle is a welcome mirror.
Our fear of loneliness is the source of all misery.
If God created the world, I would not care to be God.
To forgive and forget is to throw away valuable experience.
To read means to think with an additional head to your own.
Money is like seawater. The more you drink the thirstier you get.
The only man who can't live without a woman is the gynocologist.
One learns things now and then, but one forgets the whole day long.
Even within the same surroundings everyone lives in a different world.
We rarely think of what we have, but constantly of what we don't have.
The new is rarely the good, because the good is new only for a short time.
To place too much importance on the opinion of others is a general stupidity.
People of wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
The first 40 years of our lives write the text; the next 30 write the commentary.
The closing years of life are like the end of a masked ball, when the masks are dropped.
Everything is entirely in nature, and nature is entirely in everything. She has her centre in every brute.
Common sense can substitute almost any degree of education; but no education can substitute common sense.
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
Bill Schorten
Climate change isn't waiting for the government to work it out.
Paul Schrader
Good things happen while you wait.
Robert H. Schuller
All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation.
Anna K.Schwartz
Love is the one word that we use every day, and the one word that words cannot define.
Albert SchweitzerThe little you can do weighs a lot.
Lets dare to see things as they are.
Wisdom is to know how to tackle disappointments.
A good example is the only possibility to influence other people.
Man rules over nature before he has learned to rule over himself.
Ethic is responsibility without limits towards everything that lives.
Humility is the ability to look up to even the smallest things in life.
The most important thing in life are the touches of love we leave behind.
The best monument a man can wish for stands in the hearts of his friends.
I am interested above all in the future, because that is the time in which I shall live.
In their hopes of reaching the Moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
The shame of our culture is that it has developed materially much stronger than spiritually.
Science, correctly understood, heals man of his arrogance, because it shows him his limitations.
At age 20 you've got the face God gave you, at 40 the face life gave you and at 60 the face you deserve.
To think one is a Christian just because one goes to church is wrong: one doesn't become a car by standing in a garage.
Sir Walter Scott
Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
Chief Seattle
The Earth does not belong to us. We belong to the Earth.
Alice Sebold
So much in life is about almosts, not quites. (‘The Almost Moon')
Harry Seidler
Assume you will live forever, and keep winding up the string.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Life is warfare.
Time discovers truth.
Fate leads the willing.
A great fortune is a great slavery.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.
The strongest is who has himself in hand.
Who scorns his own life is master of yours.
Every brutality has its source in a weakness.
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Authority based on injustice will never last long.
Nobody is good by accident. Virtue has to be learnt.
We never reflect just how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
Constant exposure to danger will result in contempt for it.
To have a free soul you must be poor or live like a pauper.
A happy life is one which is in harmony with its own nature.
Nothing is more contemptible than the sentiment of the masses.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour strengthens the body.
Thrift comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse.
It is not that we have so little time. - We have plenty of time we don't use.
Long is the way through rules and regulations, but it is short through examples.
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who doesn't know it will never be rich.
Who seeks wisdom is a wise man. But who believes to have found wisdom is a fool.
We don't dare it because it is too difficult; but it is too difficult because we don't dare.
Fresh grief finds consolation. But when it becomes chronic, it will be ridiculed - and rightly so.
Without aim plans fail. If you don't know the harbour you are heading for, no wind is the right wind.
Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. Who has endured such trials with equanimity, has robbed misfortune of its power.
Vikram Seth
God save us from people who mean well. ('A Suitable Boy')
Beppe Severgnini
Berlusconi is not only Italy's head of government, but the nation's autobiography.
Nicholas Shakespeare
They failed because they did not start with a dream (‘The Vision of Elena Silves’)
William Shakespeare
Our doubts are traitors. ("Measure for Measure")
What's past is prologue.
Men have what the time is. (‘King Lear')
In delay there lies no plenty.
Nothing can come of nothing.
Journeys end in lovers meeting.
'Tis better to be brief than tedious. ("Richard III")
Love all, trust few, do wrong none. ("All's Well That Ends Well")
Such as we are made of, such we be.
Kindness, nobler ever than revenge. ("As You Like It")
To be or not to be, that is the question. ("Hamlet")
Security is the chief enemy of mortals.
The king's name is a tower of strength. ("Richard III")
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
To be wise and love exceeds man's might.
Men at some time are masters of their fate. ("Julius Caesar")
The devil can cite scripture for his purpose. ("The Merchant of Venice")
All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws. ("Macbeth")
The course of true love never did run smooth. ("Midsummer Night's Dream")
Time is the justice that examines all offenders. ("As You Like")
So wise so young, they say, do never live long. ("Richard III")
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. ("The Merchant of Venice")
Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind. ("Midsummer Nights's Dream")
O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me! ("Richard III")
Never shame to hear what you have nobly done. ("Coriolanus")
One touch of Nature makes the whole world kin.
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
He is mad who trusts in the tameness of a wolf,
A horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath. ('King Lear')
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings;
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. ("Richard III")
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love.
Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. ('Twelfth Night')
Tupac Shakur
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
Volodymyr Shalkivskyi
You cannot win a war against a free people determined to fight for their freedom.
Rushir Sharma
In economic life, happiness is a function not of what you have but what you have relative to others.
George Bernard Shaw
Better never than late.
Success covers a multitude of blunders.
He who has never hoped can never despair.
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part which makes illness worthwhile.
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
A lifetime of happiness: no man could bear it. It would be hell on earth.
As long as I have a want I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
We have not lost faith; but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end to the race.
Some see things as they are and say 'why?'. I dream of things that never were and say 'why not?'
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions.
I cannot think of another edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.
Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.
Happiness is not the object of life. Life has no object, it is an end in itself. Courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.
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.
The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor. He took my measurements every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected me to fit them.
Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honour, generosity and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness and ugliness.
I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
("Mrs. Warren's Profession")
Merlin Sheldrake
Crisis is the crucible of new relationships.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
Thaksin Shinawatra
If you want to be a good leader you have to be a master at story-telling.
Robert Short
The church is the great lost and found department.
Bill Shorten
Optimism comes from knowing we can do better.
Arun Shourie
...when all is said and done, more is said than done.
Simon Shuster
Horrors have a way of making us close our eyes.
Werner von Siemens
I won't sell the future for a momentary gain.
Joseph Silk
Humility in the face of the persistent great unknowns is the true philosophy that modern physics has to offer.
Charles Simic
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Georg Simmel
He is educated who knows where to find out what he doesn't know.
Andrew Simms
Governments are there to compensate for market failure.
Bill Simon (Australian Pastor)
Inequality always breeds contempt.
Herbert Simon
Information … consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
Upton Sinclair
The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
Kindness, I discovered, is everything in life.
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of non-knowledge.
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
I did not become a vegetarian for my health. I did it for the health of the chickens.
We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
In relation to them (animals), all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise.... Because that is how life is - full of surprises.
If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures, there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony. Slaughter and justice
cannot dwell together.
I don't invent characters because the Almighty has already invented millions.... Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.
Peter Singer
National sovereignty has no intrinsic moral weight.
We should give equal weight to similar amounts of pain and pleasure, irrespective of species. It's just as bad if pain is inflicted on a human or a dog or a pig.
Ralph Smart
There is no WIFI in the forest, but I promise you will find a better connection.
Big Mama Smiley
You can't start out wrong and end up right.
George Smilovici
I am so tough I eat the bubbles in my mineral water.
Half the world is starving, while the other half is on a diet. Why don't they just swap?
Adam Smith
The chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this.
The propensity to exchange one thing for another is an intrinsic characteristic of human nature.
With the great part of rich people, the chief employment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
By persuing his own interest, he frequently promotes that of society more effectually than when he intends to promote it.
All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.
Richard Norton Smith (TIME Magazine)
The life jacket of one generation can become the straightjacket of the next.
Sydney Smith
What you don't know would make a great book.
Wilbur Smith
We are what we eat. The table is the centre of the family.
Power is like strong drink, it is intoxicating and addictive.
You can have too much food, but you can never have too much sex.
Love is the only pure passion. It blesses both the giver and the receiver.
Enjoy the moment to the full, but remember that you cannot hold on to it, so do not even try.
The body is the vehicle that carries you through life. Enjoy it. Treat it with care and respect, or it will not carry you the full journey.
Regrets are a baggage that will only slow you down. You cannot go back to rectify your mistakes. Learn from them, and then leave them where they fell. The road runs ahead of you, not behind you.
George Smoot (Physicist)
Society hungers for both science and mythology.
Gary Snyder
Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.
Socrates
Speak, that I can see you.
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
The unexamined mind is not worth living.
How many things there are which I don't need!
There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.
We don't dare it because it is difficult, but it is difficult because we don't dare.
The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
Man must rise above the Earth... for only then can he fully understand the world in which he lives.
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Solomon (15:8)
Each one makes God after his own image.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Environment determined consciousness.
Fear of death is fear of suffering after death.
If you are in trouble listen to the dance music.
A fool would not know what to do with eternity.
You don't drown in the sea, you drown in the puddle. (all above: 'The First Circle')
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
Falsehood can hold out against much in this world, but not against art.
The highest criteria of good and evil are our own feeling of pleasure and displeasure. ('The First Circle')
Margaret Somerville
There is more to knowing than mere reason.
Susan Sontag
Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
Heartlessness and amnesia seem to go together.
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
Time exists in order that everything does not happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn't all happen to you.
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is the most beautiful in feminine women is something
masculine.
Sophocles
Success depends on effort.
Deserve respect by doing what you are able to do.
George Soros
The best donors are silent donors; not talking is good.
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
John Philip Sousa
Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
Tim Soutphommasane
The state has the moral duty to intervene in markets and to protect the common interest.
Muriel Spark
I like purple passages in my life.
Reality is very alarming at first and then it becomes interesting.
(‘Doctors of Philosophy')
Henry Spencer
Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better.
Baruch Benedict de Spinoza
To understand is to be free.
All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare.
Look at the world through the perspective of eternity.
Hate grows through counter-hate, but love can eliminate it.
In nature there is no Good or Bad; everything happens out of necessity.
The first and chief endeavour of the mind is to affirm the existence of the body.
The greatest pride, as well as the greatest despondency, is the result of ignorance of one's self.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and means of the individual. Care of the poor is a job for society as a whole.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Carve your name on hearts and not marble.
Stalin
Ideas are more powerful than guns.
Death solves all problems. No man – no problem.
Fiona Stanley
To actually approve new coal and gas now, is actually like writing a death certificate for the planet.
St. Augustine
Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
Mario Stefani
Loneliness is not being alone - it's loving others to no avail.
Gertrude Stein
Money is always there but the pockets change.
Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to go shopping.
It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Herbert Stein (economist)
If something cannot go on forever – it will stop.
Stein's Law
If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.
John Steinbeck
To be alive at all is to have scars. ('The Winter of our Discontent')
I guess there are never enough books.
All great and precious things are lonely. ('East of Eden')
Anything that just costs money is cheap.
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good. ('East of Eden')
I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.
There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
I guess a man is the only varmint who sets his own trap, baits it, and then steps in it.
Lord, how the day passes!... so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.
It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone. ('The Winter of our Discontent')
The poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leprous. (‘Tortilla Flats')
Gloria Steinem
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step towards changing it.
Stendhal
By how we live, we show the way.
Richard Stengel (TIME Magazine)
All social media involve a mixture of narcissism and voyeurism. Most of us display a combination of the two.
Lawrence Sterne
We don't love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them.
Wallace Stevens
Money is a kind of poetry.
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
After the last no comes the yes. And on that yes the future world depends.
After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.
Adlai Stevenson
Laws are never as effective as habits.
We have confused the free with the free and easy.
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
It's not the years in your life, but the life in your years that count.
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
In America any boy may become president - and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
Ben Stevenson
Communists make the best capitalists.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Everyone lives by selling something.
A friend is a present you give to yourself.
There is no foreign land; it is the traveller that is foreign.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared listener.
We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
Jackie Stewart
To go faster you have to go slower.
Roger Stone
Politics is not about uniting people; it's about dividing people. And getting your 51%.
Sharon Stone
I can turn a gay man straight in five minutes.
Tom Stoppard
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe. ('Night and Day')
If you live without history, you throw no shadow.
It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
It is better to know useless things than to know nothing.
Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean: where's it going to end?
Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
Theodor Storm
As a leaf falls from a tree so ends a life, yet the birds keep singing.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Richard Strauss
I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
August Strindberg
Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
Douglas Stuart
Sometimes you don't even want a thing. You just can't bear anyone else to have it. ('Shuggie Bain')
Sun Tzu
Pretend inferiority and encourage their arrogance. ('The Art of War')
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
David Sussman
Things are looking up for looking down on people.
Terri Swearingen
We are living on this planet as if we had another to go to.
Jonathan Swift
May you live all the days of your life.
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it.
Vision is the art of seeing what's invisible to others.
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
We have just religion enough to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
Publilius Syrus
Today is the pupil of yesterday.
No sense to fear the unavoidable.
In a heated argument truth gets lost.
Unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Where there is unity there is always victory.
Don't live one way in private, and another way in public.
Admonish your friends in secret, but praise them openly.
Everything is worth exactly what the buyer is willing to pay.
Don't punish your neighbour with fire oif you live next door.
Thomas Szasz
Sex is body-contact sport. It is safe to watch but more fun to play.
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
George Szell
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.
Wislawa Szymborska
There is no life that couldn't be immortal, if only for a moment.