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1402. A senior always feels like the university is going to the kids. --Tom Masson

1403. A sense of the value of time--that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities--is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry. --Arnold Bennett

1404. A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. --Oscar Wilde

1405. A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself. -- Don Marquis

1406. A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl. --Ernest Hemingway

1407. A seven pound baby arrived last night to frighten the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Caswell.

1408. A seventh of your life is wasted on Mondays

1409. A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.

1410. A shallow thinker never leaves a deep impression.

1411. A shamefaced man seldom acquires wealth

1412. A sharp blade is nothing without a sharp eye.

1413. A ship and a woman are ever repairing.

1414. A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.--William Shedd

1415. A ship in the harbor is safe. But that's not what ships are built for.

1416. A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea.

1417. A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

1418. A short horse is soon curried.

1419. A short life and a merry one.

1420. A short saying contains much wisdom.

1421. A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

1422. A short saying often contains much wisdom. Sophocles

1423. A short visit is best and that not too often

1424. A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.

1425. A shrew gets her wish but suffers in the getting

1426. A shut mouth catches no flies.

1427. A shy cat makes a proud mouse.

1428. A sick feeling of repugnance and apprehension grows in me as I near Australia. If only I could creep quietly into the bosom of my family and rest there. - Sir Robert Gordon Menzies Private diary entry (in Auckland, NZ)

1429. A sign of a celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.

1430. A signature always reveals a man's character -- and sometimes even his name.

1431. A silent mouth is musical

1432. A silent mouth is sweet to hear

1433. A silent mouth never did any harm

1434. A silly daughter teaches her mother how to bear children.

1435. A simple way to get votes: Find something the Australian people haven't got, tell them they have a right to it - an then promise to get it for them.

1436. A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. --Hosea Ballou

1437. A single bracelet does not jingle.

1438. A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. -- Chinese Proverb

1439. A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. Chinese Proverb

1440. A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

1441. A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is statistics.

1442. A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors. --Benjamin Franklin

1443. A single reason why you can do something is worth 100 reasons why you can't.

1444. A single rose can be my garden...a single friend, my world.-- Leo Buscaglia

1445. A single stick may smoke, but it will not burn.

1446. A sinner once a sinner twice, no need for confession now.

1447. A sinning man will stop praying. A praying man will stop sinning.

1448. A skillful commander is not overbearing. A skillful fighter does not become angry. A skillful conqueror does not compete with people. One who is skillful in using men puts himself below them. This is called the virtue of not-competing. This is called the strength to use men. This is called matching Heaven, The highest principle of old.

1449. A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead the first blow, better not strike at it.

1450. A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it. --Josh Billings

1451. A slave has but one master; the ambitious man has as many masters as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortune.

1452. A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. -- Logan P. Smith

1453. A sly rogue is often in good dress

1454. A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy. --Publilius Syrus

1455. A small good deed is better then the grandest intention.

1456. A small leak will sink a great ship. --Benjamin Franklin

1457. A small pack becomes a small pedlar.

1458. A small town is a place where there is little to see or do, but what you hear makes up for it. (Ivern Ball)

1459. A smart husband always buys his wife the finest china money can buy, that way she is always afraid to let him help drying the dishes.

1460. A smile confuses an approaching frown.

1461. A smile is a curve that can set a lot of things straight.

1462. A smile is a fortune, but you can't sell it, you can't buy it and you can't steal it, but it isn't good to anyone until it is given away.

1463. A smile is a powerful weapon - you can even break ice with it.

1464. A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks

1465. A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.

1466. A smile is the cheapest way to improve your looks, even if your teeth are crooked.

1467. A smile on your face can be felt on anothers heart. (Rhonda Marlow)

1468. A smile starts on the lips, A grin spreads to the eyes, A chuckle comes from the belly; But a good laugh burtsts forth from the soul, Overflows, and bubbles all around.

1469. A smiling boy seldom proves a good servant.

1470. A smokey cabin, a handful of spuds and a flea-filled bed

1471. A smooth and steadfast mind, Gentle thoughts and calm desires, Hearts with equal love combined, Kindle never-dying fires.

1472. A smooth sea never made a skilful sailor

1473. A snake deserves no pity. Yiddish Proverb

1474. A sneer is the weapon of the weak. --James Russell Lowell

1475. A snow year, a rich year.

1476. A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? Jane Wagner

1477. A society that loses its sense of outrage is doomed to extinction.

1478. A soft ANSWER turneth away wrath.

1479. A soft answer turns away anger.

1480. A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger Proverbs 15:1

1481. A soft dropping April brings milk to cows and sheep

1482. A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

1483. A solitary man is either a brute or an angel (or either a God or a beast).

1484. A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

1485. A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

1486. A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

1487. A sow to a fiddle.

1488. A sparrow in the hand is better than a pegion on the roof.

1489. A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.

1490. A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs. --Bernard M. Baruch

1491. A spender gets the property of the hoarder

1492. A spoken word gets wings, and never returns.

1493. 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

1494. A Stanford research group advertised for participants in a study of obsessive-compulsive disorder. They were looking for therapy clients who had been diagnosed with this disorder. The response was gratifying; they got , responses about three days after the ad came out. All from the same person.

1495. A state is better governed which has but few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

1496. A statesman is a politician ten or fifteen years after he's dead.

1497. A statesman is what politicians call themselves.

1498. A statesman shears the sheep. A politician skins them.

1499. A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.

1500. A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.--Richard Byrd