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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
Desire
Socrates

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They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.
Purpose
Socrates

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Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
Society
Valerie Solanis

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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
Wealth
Solon

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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
Lies and Lying
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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It takes 50000 nuts to put a car together, but only one to scatter them all over the road.
Idiots
Darryl Somers

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Indeed, you won the elections, but I won the count.
Elections
Anastasio Somoza

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It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
Suffering
Susan Sontag

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What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
Pornography
Susan Sontag

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.
Failure
Bishop Robert South

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If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong.
Punishment
South African Proverb

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.
Life and Living
Robert Southey

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Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.
Patience
Spanish Proverb

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It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.
Argument
Spanish Proverb

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.
Knowledge
Spanish Proverb

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
Time and Time Management
Herbert Spencer

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Fear God, yes, but don't be afraid of Him.
God
J. A. Spender

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But Justice, though her dome [doom] she doe prolong,Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
Uncategorised
Edmund Spenser

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I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.
Present
Mark Spitz

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Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
Worry
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Happiness
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.
Perseverance
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
Achievement
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
Desire
Germaine De Stael

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Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
Talent
Konstantin Stanislavisky

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun