Quotes starting with S
Below you will find our collection of inspirational quotes and sayings starting with the letter S, collected over the years from a variety of sources.
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Sacrificing means more. -- unknown
Save for a rainy day. -- Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
Save money and money will save you. -- Jamaican (on thrift)
Scatter with one hand; gather with two. -- Welsh (on thrift)
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
See life through an artist's eye. -- unknown
Seeing is believing. -- unknown
Seek advice but use your own common sense. -- Yiddish (on advice)
Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Seize the day. -- unknown
Self conceit may lead to self destruction. -- Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
Self praise is no recommendation. -- Romanian (on flattery and praise)
Send a thief to catch a thief. -- unknown
Shrouds are made without pockets. -- Yiddish (on basic truths)
Silence is golden. -- unknown
Silence is often misinterpreted but never misquoted. -- unknown
Silence is sometimes the answer. -- Estonian (on discretion)
Silence is the hardest argument to refute. -- unknown
Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden but it is forbidden because it is hurtful -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get. -- Spanish Proverb
Sing away sorrow, cast away care. -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
Six feet of earth makes us all equal. -- Italian (on death and dying)
Sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite. -- Colonial American Saying
Sleeping people can't fall down. -- Japanese (on caution and care)
Slow and steady wins the race. -- Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
Small children give you a headache, big children a heartache. -- Russian Proverb
Smiles open many doors. -- unknown
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. -- African Proverb
Some things are better left unsaid. -- unknown
Sometimes the remedy is worse than the disease. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Sometimes, it's too little, too late. -- unknown
Sometimes, less is more. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Sorrow doesn't kill, reckless joy does. -- Yoruba (West African (on joy and sorrow)
Sorrow is to the soul, as worm is to wood. -- Turkish (on joy and sorrow)
Spare your breath to cool your porridge. -- Francis Robelias
Spending is quick; earning is slow. -- Russian (on thrift)
Spring is in the air. -- unknown
Stick to your guns. -- unknown
Stick to your knitting. -- unknown
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names can never hurt me. -- unknown
Stones decay, words last. -- Samoan (on discretion)
Stop and smell the roses. -- unknown
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. -- unknown
Strike while the iron is hot. -- Chaucer (c.1343-1400)
Stupid is as stupid does. -- Eric Roth
Success has many parents but failure is an orphan. -- American (on success and failure)
Success has ruined many a man. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Sum up at night what thou hast done by day. -- George Herbert (1593-1633)
Sun is good for cucumbers, rain for rice. -- Vietnamese (on appropriateness)
Sweet are the slumbers of a virtuous man. -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719)