Alphabetical List. Proverbs and Quotes starting from S

Sadness and gladness succeed each other.

Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

Saying is one thing, doing is another.

Saying is one thing; doing another.

Second place is first loser.

See a pin and pick it up, all the day you will have good luck; see a pin and let it lay, bad luck you will have all day

See Naples and die.

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil

See nothing, say nothing, know nothing.

Seeing is believing.

Seek and ye shall find.

Seize the day.

Seldom seen, soon forgotten.

Self praise is no recommendation.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Set a wolf to watch the sheep. Set a fox to watch the geese.

Set your sail according to the wind.

Seven-fifths of all people do not understand fractions

Shake the hand before you plough the field.

Share and share alike!

Shedding crocodile tears.

Shiny are the distant hills.

Shoemakers’ children go barefooted.

Shopping is a therapy.

Short reckonings make long friends.

Show a clean pair of heels.

Shrouds have no pockets.

Shut up and sit down.

Sickness in the body brings sadness to the mind.

Sign on the dotted line.

Silence gives consent.

Silence is an excellent remedy against slander.

Silence is golden.

Silence is less injurious than a bad reply.

Silence is the fence around wisdom.

Since before cocky was an egg.

Six of one and half a dozen of the other. Two of a kind.

Size matters.

Sleep is better than medicine.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Slow but sure.

Small faults indulged let in greater.

Small talk.

Small time crook

Smile and the world smiles with you, snore and you sleep alone.

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Snug as a bug in a rug.

So long as you do your best in life, whatever happens will be for the best.

So many men, so many minds.

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

Some are wise and some are otherwise.

Some of the best gifts come in small packages.

Sometimes the majority only means all the fools are on the same side

Sound as a bell.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Speak as you find.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

Speak when you are spoken to.

Split second timing.

Spots before the eyes.

St Swithins Day, if thou does rain, for forty days it will remain, St Swithins day if thou be fair for forty days twill rain no more

Star turn.

Step by step one goes far.

Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me.

Sticks and stones will break my bones but names.

Still waters are the deepest.

Still waters run deep.

Stir With a Knife, Stir Up Strife.

Stolen fruit is the sweetest.

Stone is heavy and sand a burden, but provocation by a fool is heavier than both

Stop beating around the bush.

Strangers are just friends you have not met yet.

Strike while the iron is hot.

Strong men of arms become like soft putty in the arms of women.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

Sunlight penetrates even the thinnest crack

Suspicion breeds phantoms.Suspicion has double eyes.

Sympathy without relief is like mustard without beef.