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.


Quotes

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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)