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Proverbs Beginning with S

55 entries beginning with the letter S.

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S — Proverbs and Sayings

55 total

Safe bind, safe find

Salt water and absence wash away love.

Save us from our friends,

Saying and doing are two things.

Score twice before you cut once.

Scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings.

Scratch a Russian and you find a Tartar

Scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.

Second thoughts are best,

see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil

Seeing is believing

Seek and you shall find

Self done is soon done. Self done is well done.

Self done is well done.

Self is a bad counselor.

Self-praise is no recommendation.

Sending a baby on an errand

Set a beggar on horseback and he’ll ride to the devil.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Shallow streams make most din.

Short debts make long friends.

Shrouds have no pockets,

Sickness in the body brings sadness to the mind.

Silence gives consent.

Silence is a woman's best garment,

Since Adam was a boy.

sing before breakfast, cry before night

Six of one and half a dozen of the other.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Small choice is rotten apples

Smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.

So many countries, so many customs.

So many men, so many minds.

Soft beds make hard battles

Soft fire makes sweet malt.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark .

Soon learnt, soon forgotten.

Soon ripe, soon rotten.

Sooner begun, the sooner done

Sow a thought and you reap an action

Sow an act and you rip a habit.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Speak of the devil and he will appear.

Speech is silver but silence is gold.

Standers-by see more than gamesters.

Start is the half of everything.

Still waters run deep.

Stolen pleasures are sweetest.

Stretch your arm no further than your sleeve will reach.

Strike while the iron is hot.

Stuff today and starve tomorrow.

Such carpenters, such chips.

Sweep before your own door.

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