1378. Sack. It's a bad sack will abide no clouting.
1379. Sack. Nothing comes out of the sack but what was in it.
1380. Saddle. Set the saddle on the right horse.
1381. Sadness. Sadness and gladness succeed each other.
1382. St. David's day.
1383. St. Stephen.
Blessed be St. Stephen;
There's no fast upon his even.
1384. Sail. Make not your sail too large for your ship.
1385. Salmon. Salmon and sermon have their season in Lent.
1386. Salt. Catch a bird by putting salt on its tail.
1387. Sand. You can't make ropes of sand.
1388. Sauce. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
1389. Sauce. Sweet meat must have some sauce.
1390. Save.
If youth knew what age will crave,
It sure would strive to get and save.
1391. Save. Who will not save a penny, shall never have many.
1392. Saving. Saving is getting.
1393. Saving. It's useless saving at the spigot and spending at the bung-hole.
1394. Saving. Of saving cometh having.
1395. Say. Learn to say before you sing.
1396. Saying. Saying and doing are two things.
1397. Says. If a man says little he thinks the more.
1398. Say well.
"Say well," and "do well," end with one letter;
To say well, it is well, but to do well is better.
1399. Scabbed sheep. One scabbed sheep infects the whole flock.
1400. Scald. Scald not your lips in another man's pottage.
1401. Scalded cat. A scalded cat fears cold water.
1402. Sceptre. A sceptre is one thing, a ladle another.
1403. Scholar. A mere scholar a mere ass.
1404. Scholars. The greatest scholars are not always the wisest men.
1405. Scorning. Scorning is catching.
1406. Scotch mist. A Scotch mist will wet an Englishman through to the skin.
1407. Sea. On the sea sail; on the land settle.
1408. Season. Everything is good in its season.
1409. Season. To everything there is a season; and a time to every purpose under heaven.
1410. Second blow. 'Tis the second blow that makes a fray.
1411. Secret. He that revealeth his secret maketh himself a slave.
1412. Seeing. Seeing is believing.
1413. Seek. Seek till you find, and you'll lose no labour.
1414. Seldom seen. Seldom seen, soon forgotten.
1415. Self. Self do, self have.
1416. Self Love. Self love's a mote in every man's eye.
1417. Self praise. Self praise is no recommendation.
1418. September.
September blow soft,
Till the fruit's in the loft.
1419. Servants. Good servants make good masters.
1420. Shadow. Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance.
1421. Share. Share and share alike.
1422. Shaving. It's ill shaving against the wool.
1423. Shear.
Shear your sheep in May,
And shear them all away.
1424. Sheep. One sheep follows another.
1425. Ships. Ships fear fire more than water.
1426. Shoe. The finest shoe often hurts the foot.
1427. Shoe. To know where the shoe pinches.
1428. Shoot. Every man will shoot at the enemy, but few will go to fetch the shaft.
1429. Shop. Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.
1430. Shorn sheep. God tempers the wind to the shorn sheep.
1431. Short cuts. Short cuts are sometimes longest.
1432. Short reckonings. Short reckonings are soon cleared.
1433. Short and sweet. Short and sweet like a donkey's gallop.
1434. Shrew. Every one can tame a shrew but he that hath her.
1435. Sigh. Never sigh but send.
1436. Sight. Out of sight out of mind.
1437. Silence. Silence seldom doth harm.
1438. Silence. Silence is consent.
1439. Silence. Silence is the best ornament of a woman.
1440. Silver. White silver draws black lines.
1441. Silver spoon. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
1442. Sing. A bird that can sing and won't sing, must be made to sing.
1443. Sing. None but fools and fiddlers sing at their meat.
1444. Sings. Who sings drives away care.
1445. Sit still. As good sit still as rise up and fall.
1446. Slander. Few people are out of the reach of slander.
1447. Slander. Slander leaves a score behind it.
1448. Slavery.
Account not that work slavery
That brings in penny savoury.
1449. Sleep. One hour's sleep before midnight is worth two hours after.
1450. Sleeping. There is sleeping enough in the grave.
1451. Sleeping dog. Don't wake a sleeping dog.
1452. Slip. Better that the feet slip than the tongue.
1453. Sloth. Sloth turneth the edge of wit.
1454. Sloth. Sloth is the mother of poverty.
1455. Slow. Slow and sure.
1456. Sluggard's guise.
The sluggard's guise,
Loth to go to bed and loth to rise.
1457. Sluts. Sluts are good enough to make slovens' pottage.
1458. Small fish. Better are small fish than an empty dish.
1459. Small things. Small things affect light minds.
1460. Small things. He that despiseth small things shall fall by little and little.
1461. Smoke. Where there is smoke there is fire.
1462. Snake. Put a snake in your bosom, and when it is warm it will sting you.
1463. Snow. A snow year, a rich year.
1464. Softly. He that goes softly goes surely.
1465. Soft words. Soft words butter no parsnips.
1466. Soldiers. Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
1467. Son.
My son's my son till he hath got him a wife,
But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.
1468. Soon hot. Soon hot, soon cold.
1469. Sooner said. 'Tis sooner said than done.
1470. Sorrow. Sorrow and bad weather come unsent for.
1471. Sorrow. Sorrow will pay no debt.
1472. Sorrow. A fat sorrow is better than a lean one.
1473. Sorrow. Sorrow is good for nothing but sin.
1474. Sorrow. Sorrow will wear away in time.
1475. Sorrow. When sorrow is asleep, wake it not.
1476. Sorrow. Sorrow comes unsent for, and, like the unbidden guest, brings his own stool.
1477. Sorrowing. He goes a-sorrowing, who goes a-borrowing.
1478. Sound. As sound as a nut.
1479. Sour grapes. "Sour grapes," as the fox said when he could not reach them.
1480. Sow. Every sow to her own trough.
1481. Sows. Who sows in May gets little that way.
1482. Sows. What a man sows, that shall he also reap.
1483. Spare. 'Tis too late, to spare when the bottom is bare.
1484. Spare. It is better to spare at the brim than the bottom.
1485. Spare. Spare when young and spend when old.
1486. Spare. Spare to speak and spare to spend.
1487. Speak. There is a time to speak as well as to be silent.
1488. Speak. Speak well of the dead.
1489. Speak. Many speak much that cannot speak well.
1490. Speak. Speak fair and think what you will.
1491. Speaks.
He that speaks me fair and loves me not,
I'll speak him fair and trust him not.
1492. Speculation. Speculation completes what extravagance began.
1493. Speech. Speech is the picture of the mind.
1494. Spend. Spend not where you may save; spare not where you must spend.
1495. Spend. Carefully spend, and God will send.
1496. Spend. Spend and be free, but make no waste.
1497. Spender. To a good spender God is the treasurer.
1498. Spenders. Great spenders are bad lenders.
1499. Spends.
He who more than his worth doth spend,
Makes a rope his life to end;
He who spends more than he should,
Shall not have to spend when he would.
1500. Spends. You may know by a penny how a shilling spends.
1501. Spendthrift. It is the thrift of a spendthrift which ruins him most effectually.
1502. Spice. Who hath spice enough may season his meat as he pleaseth.
1503. Spite. Don't cut your nose off to spite your face.
1504. Spits. Who spits against the wind spits in his own face.
1505. Split. He would split a hair.
1506. Spoil. Too many cooks spoil the broth.
1507. Spoil. Spoil not the ship for a penn'orth of tar.
1508. Spoken of. Better be ill spoken of by one before all, than by all before one.
1509. Sport. It's poor sport that is not worth the candle.
1510. Sport. No sport, no pie.
1511. Spots. Rich men's spots are covered with money.
1512. Sprat. Throw a sprat to catch a whale.
1513. Spur. Do not spur a free horse.
1514. Stable. Being born in a stable does not make a man a horse.
1515. Stake. An ill stake standeth longest.
1516. Standers by. Standers by see more than the gamesters.
1517. Standing. The higher the standing the lower the fall.
1518. Standing pools. Standing pools gather filth.
1519. Stars. Stars are not seen during sunshine.
1520. Starve. He would starve in a cook-shop.
1521. Steal. He that will steal an egg will steal an ox.
1522. Steal. He that will steal a pin will steal a better thing.
1523. Steal. One man may better steal a horse than another look over the hedge.
1524. Steed. When the steed is stolen the stable door shall be shut.
1525. Step by step. Step by step the ladder is climbed.
1526. Sticks. Little sticks kindle the fire, but great ones put it out.
1527. Stile. He that will not go over the stile must be thrust through the gate.
1528. Still water. Trust not still water nor a silent man.
1529. Still water. Keep me from still water; from that which is rough I can keep myself.
1530. Still waters. Still waters run deep.
1531. Stinking fish. Never cry "Stinking fish."
1532. Stitch. A stitch in time saves nine.
1533. Stock. Whoso lacketh a stock, his gain's not worth a chip.
1534. Stolen kisses. Stolen kisses are sweet.
1535. Stomach. The full stomach loatheth the honeycomb, but to the hungry every bitter thing is sweet.
1536. Stomach. With stomach, wife, and conscience keep on good terms.
1537. Stone wall.
Hard upon hard makes a bad stone wall;
But soft upon soft makes none at all.
1538. Stools. Between two stools he comes to the ground.
1539. Stoop. He must stoop that hath a low door.
1540. Storm. After a storm comes a calm.
1541. Store. Store is no sore.
1542. Story. One story is good until another's told.
1543. Straight trees. Straight trees have crooked roots.
1544. Stratagem. By stratagem, not valour.
1545. Stream. No striving against the stream.
1546. Strife. Weight and measure take away strife.
1547. Strife. Haste makes waste, and waste makes want, and want makes strife between the good man and his wife.
1548. Strike. Strike while the iron is hot.
1549. Strokes. Little strokes fell great oaks.
1550. Study. Morning is the time for study.
1551. Stumbles. He that runs in the night stumbles.
1552. Stumbles. He that stumbles twice over the same stone, deserves to break his shins.
1553. Stumbles. 'Tis a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles.
1554. Subjects' love. The subjects' love is the king's lifeguard.
1555. Success. Nothing succeeds like success.
1556. Success.
'Tis not in mortals to command success,
But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.
1557. Suckers. The young suckers drain the old tree.
1558. Sufferance. Of sufferance comes ease.
1559. Sufficient. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.
1560. Suit. That suit is best that best fits me.
1561. Sunshine. No sunshine but hath some shadow.
1562. Supperless. Better go to bed supperless than to rise in debt.
1563. Suppers. Light suppers make long lives.
1564. Sure. Sure bind, sure find.
1565. Surgeon. A good surgeon must have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand.
1566. Swallow. One swallow does not make a summer.
1567. Swallow. One swallow makes not a spring, nor one woodcock a winter.
1568. Sweat. No sweat, no sweet.
1569. Sweep. Sweep before your own door.
1570. Sweep. They have need of a besom that sweep the house with a turf.
1571. Sweet. He deserves not the sweet that will not taste the sour.
1572. Swim. He must needs swim that's held up by the chin.
1573. Swim. Never trust yourself out of your depth till you can swim.
1574. Sword. He that strikes with the sword shall be beaten with the scabbard.
1575. Sword. Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.
