Sentiment
- Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
- Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
-- Graham Greene
- He who molds the public sentiment ... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.
-- Abraham Lincoln
- The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
-- Thomas Carlyle
- Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
-- James Russell Lowell
- Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine
- The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
-- Thomas Huxley
- A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
-- Oscar Wilde
Silence
- Sometimes silence is not golden--just yellow.
-- Anon.
- Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
-- George Eliot
- If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
-- Austin O'Malley
- A wise old owl sat on an oak;
The more he saw the less he spoke;
The less he spoke the more he heard;
Why aren't we like that wise old bird?
-- Edward H. Richards
- Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
-- Thomas Carlyle
- Still waters run deep.
-- English Proverb
- Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
-- Josh Billings
- Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
- If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
-- Calvin Coolidge
- He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith
- Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
-- Charles De Gaulle
- Great souls endure in silence.
-- Friedrich Schiller
- When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected.
-- Luc de Clapiers
- Simplicity is the glory of expression.
-- Walt Whitman
- Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein
- Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
-- Charles Dudley Warner
- The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.
-- Willard Gibbs
- Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
-- Henry David Thoreau
- Seek simplicity but distrust it.
-- A.N. Whitehead
Sin
- Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
-- Elbert Hubbard
- Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- Man-like it is to fall into sin; fiendlike it is to dwell therein.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- There is no sin except stupidity.
-- Oscar Wilde
- Every sin is the result of a collaboration.
-- Stephen Crane
- The wages of sin are sables.
-- Anon.
- Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache.
-- Hungarian Proverb
- He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
-- Thomas Fuller
- Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughed at.
-- Josh Billings
- He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.
-- John 8:7
Skepticism
- Skepticism is slow suicide.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.
-- George Santayana
- Skeptics are never deceived.
-- French Proverb
- The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
-- George Jean Nathan
- Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything.
-- Latin Proverb
- Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.
-- Romain Rolland
- Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
-- John Dewey
- Great intellects are skeptical.
-- Friederich Nietzsche
- An open mind, like an open window, should be screened to keep the bugs out.
-- Virginia Hutchinson
- It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn.
-- Isaac Asimov
- The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.
-- Hungarian Proverb
Slander
- A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it.
-- Josh Billings
- The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
-- Jonathan Swift
- Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
-- Samuel Johnson
- Slanders are like flies, that pass all over a man's good parts to light on his sores.
-- Anon.
- To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin.
-- Tryon Edwards
- Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; ere long she shall appear to vindicate thee.
-- Immanuel Kant
- Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you will have dirty hands.
-- Joseph Parker
- I hate the man who builds his name on the ruins of another's fame.
-- John Gay
Sleep
- Sleep is the twin of death.
-- Homer
- Sleep she as sound as careless infancy.
-- William Shakespeare
- Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Fatigue is the best pillow.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- Living is a disease from which sleep gives us relief eight hours a day.
-- Chamfort
- Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest,
Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings
Indifferent host to shepherds and kings,
&nbso;Sole comforter to minds with grief opprest.
-- William Drummond
Smile
- A lot of men think that if they smile for a second, somebody will take advantage of them, and they are right.
-- Don Herold
- There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater
- Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
-- Mark Twain
- A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.
-- Kin Hubbard
- Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth.
-- Andrei Gromyko
- Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?
-- George Eliot
Smoking
- Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.
-- George D. Prentice
- Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.
-- Bill Vaughan
- The best way to stop smoking is to carry wet matches.
-- Anon.
- I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn't want to smoke, but I didn't believe myself.
-- Barbara Kelly
- To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did, I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.
-- Mark Twain
Society
- The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom--they are the pillars of society.
-- Henrik Ibsen
- One great society alone on earth: the noble living and the noble dead.
-- William Wordsworth
- We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.
-- Winston Churchill
- Society is like air; very high up, it is sublimated--too low down, a perfect choke-damp.
-- Anon.
- Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface.
-- Washington Irving
- The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow--by the tilt of the social landscape.
-- Eric Hoffer
- Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.
-- August Strindberg
- To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.
-- Oscar Wilde
Soldier
- Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
-- Douglas MacArthur
- I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
-- Thornton Wilder
- I want to see you shoot the way you shout.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
- Theirs is not to make reply,
Theirs is not to reason why,
Theirs is but to do and die.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.
-- Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson
- A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
-- Abraham Lincoln
- So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
-- Tacitus
- Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
-- Thomas Jefferson
- It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
-- George S. Patton, Jr.
- I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.
-- Mark Twain
Solitude
- I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
-- Henry David Thoreau
- I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein
- Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.
-- Thomas De Quincey
- I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-- Henry David Thoreau
- The right to be alone--the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man.
-- Louis D. Brandeis
- It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
-- Henry David Thoreau
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