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- The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
- Saki (1870 - 1916)
- Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
- Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), The People, Yes (1936)
- For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn--much.
- W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman, And Now All This (1932) introduction
- If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.
- Christina Stead (1903 - 1983), House of All Nations (1938) "Credo"
- I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign
- In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech in Indianapolis, 26 Sept. 1952
- A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
- Caskie Stinnett, Out of the Red (1960)
- Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?
- Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)
- Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
- Simeon Strunsky (1879 - 1948), No Mean City (1944)
- A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Childhood"
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