| S |
| Saying - Author |
|
| 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-help is the best help. - 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, it's too little, too late. - unknown |
| Sometimes, less is more. - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Sometimes the remedy is worse than the disease. - Francis Bacon (1561-1626) |
| 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) |
