| Author |
Quotes |
| Ruth Benedict | The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. |
| Saint Augustine | Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. |
| Samuel Hoffenstein | Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave. |
| Simeon Strunsky | Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. |
| Simone de Beauvoir | Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. |
| Sir Arthur Eddington | If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. - "In the Nature of the Physical World", 1928. |
| Sir Heneage Ogilvie | The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further. |
| Sir Laurence Olivier | Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult. |
| Sir Thomas More | And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others. |
| Sir Winston Churchill | A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. |
| Socrates | There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. |
| Socrates | If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. |
| Socrates | Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. |
| Socrates | He is richest who is content with the least. |
| Socrates | I know I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. |
| Socrates | He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. |
| Soren Aabye Kierkegaard | People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. |
| St Basil | He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. |
| Stanislaw Lec | The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper. - Unkempt Thoughts, 1962. |
| Stanley Garn | If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. |
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