Proverbs starting with "S"

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• S1 No SABBATH without sun, nor young wench without love, nor an old body without grief or ache
• S2 Bind the SACK before it be full
• S3 A broken SACK (bag) will hold no corn (meal)
• S4 Everyone thinks his SACK (pack) heaviest
• S5 A full SACK will take a clout on the side
• S6 It is a bad SACK (case) that will abide no clouting
• S7 Let every SACK stand upon its own bottom
• S8 An old SACK asks (craves) much patching (clouting)
• S9 An old SACK is aye skailing¹
• S10 A short SACK has a wide mouth
• S11 To cover oneself with a wet SACK
• S12 More SACKS to the mill
• S13 To mourn in SACK and claret
• S14 I am SAD because I cannot be glad
• S15 Better to lose the SADDLE than the horse
• S16 Set (Lay, Put) the SADDLE on the right horse
• S17 To have a SADDLE for all horses
• S18 To set one beside the SADDLE
• S19 Where SADDLES lack, better ride on a pad than. on the horse bareback
• S20 He SADDLES today and goes tomorrow
• S21 SADNESS and gladness succeed each other
• S22 He that would live for aye must eat SAGE in May
• S23 Hoist your SAIL when the wind is fair
• S24 Make not your SAIL too big for the ballast (the boat)
• S25 To set up his SAIL to (To sail with) every wind
• S26 What SAILS are to a ship the passions are to the spirits
• S27 It is not good SAILING in the top of masts
• S28 Enough to make a SAINT swear
• S29 Every SAINT will have his candle (feast, shrine)
• S30 He looks like a SAINT but the devil he is
• S31 A SAINT abroad and a devil at home
• S32 Such a SAINT such an offering (shrine)
• S33 Young SAINT old devil
• S34 Let him alone with the SAINT's bell and give him rope enough
• S35 To follow one like a SAINT ANTHONY's PIG
• S36 At SAINT BARNABAS¹ the scythe in the meadow
• S37 SAINT BARTHOLOMEW¹ brings cold dew
• S38 SAINT BENEDICT¹ sow thy peas or keep them in thy rick
• S39 Before SAINT CHAD¹ every goose lays, both good and bad
• S40 Upon SAINT DAVID's DAY¹ put oats and barley in the clay
• S41 On SAINT DISTAFF's DAY¹ partly work and partly play
• S42 Like SAINT GEORGE, who is ever on horseback yet never rides
• S43 As lame as SAINT GILES of Cripplegate¹
• S44 SAINT HUGH's bones
• S45 Till SAINT JAMES's DAY¹ be come and gone you may have hops or you may have none
• S46 Go ride upon SAINT LEONARD's saddle
• S47 SAINT LUKE was a saint and a physician and yet he died
• S48 SAINT MARTIN's ware (rings)
• S49 At SAINT MATTHEW¹ (Matthee) shut up the bee
• S50 SAINT MATTHIAS¹ (Matthie) all the year goes by
• S51 SAINT MATTHIAS¹ both leaf and grass
• S52 SAINT MATTHIAS¹ (Matthie) sends sap into the tree
• S53 SAINT MATTHIAS¹ (Mattho) take thy hopper² and sow
• S54 SAINT NICHOLAS's clerks
• S55 If SAINT PAUL¹ be fair and clear then betides a happy year
• S56 Give not SAINT PETER so much to leave Saint Paul nothing
• S57 Who praises SAINT PETER does not blame Saint Paul
• S58 SAINT PETER's in the Poor,¹ where no tavern, ale-house, or sign at the door
• S59 As freely as SAINT ROBERT gave his cow
• S60 To go to SAINT SAVIOR's
• S61 Blessed be SAINT STEPHEN, there's no fast on his even
• S62 If it rain on SAINT SWITHIN's DAY¹ expect 'twill do so forty days after more or less
• S63 SAINT THOMAS A WATERINGS
• S64 SAINT VALENTINE¹ set thy hopper² by mine
• S65 To SAINT VALENTINE¹ the spring is a neighbor
• S66 On SAINT VALENTINE's DAY¹ all the birds in couples do join
• S67 On SAINT VALENTINE's DAY¹ cast beans in clay but on Saint Chad¹ sow good and bad
• S68 Would I were young for your SAKE
• S69 A good SALAD is the beginning (prologue) of an ill (bad) supper
• S70 He picked this SALAD out of more than one garden
• S71 Better good SALE than good ale
• S72 Soking SALE is best
• S73 SALISBURY PLAIN is seldom (never) without a thief or twain
• S74 SALMON and sermon have their season in Lent
• S75 Better eat SALT with philosophers of Greece than sugar with courtesans (courtiers) of Italy
• S76 Cast brine SALT into the sea
• S77 He carries SALT to Dysart
• S78 He could eat me without SALT (garlic)
• S79 If you take away the SALT you may throw the flesh to the dogs
• S80 SALT seasons all things
• S81 It is a strange SALT FISH that no water can make fresh
• S82 He has but one SALVE for all sores
• S83 Seek your SALVE where you got your sore
• S84 There is a SALVE for every sore
• S85 As strong as SAMPSON
• S86 SAMPSON was a strong man and Solomon was a wise man but neither of them both could pay money before they had it
• S87 He sows the SAND
• S88 To build on SAND
• S89 To plow the SAND (shore)
• S90 When the SAND does feed the clay England woe and well-a-day, but when the clay does feed the sand then it is well with England
• S91 As difficult as to number the SANDS in the sea
• S92 Many SANDS will sink a ship
• S93 There is little SAP in dry pea hulls
• S94 SATURDAY is the working day and Monday the holiday of preachers
• S95 More SAUCE than meat (pig)
• S96 Simondsall SAUCE
• S97 Sweet SAUCE begins to wax sour
• S98 Though the SAUCE be good yet you need not for-sake the meat for it
• S99 To be served with the same SAUCE
• S100 To eat SAUCE
• S101 To pay SAUCE worth
• S102 What is SAUCE for a goose is sauce for a gander
• S103 Better SAUGHT¹ with little aught nor care with many cow
• S104 Is SAUL also among the prophets?
• S105 A good SAVER is a good server
• S106 Some SAVERS in a house do well
• S107 Of SAVING comes having
• S108 He that smells the first SAVOR is the fault's first father
• S109 Better SAY here it is than here it was
• S110 Do not SAY go, but gaw
• S111 SAY I told you so
• S112 SAY well or be still
• S113 SAY you saw me not
• S114 Though I SAY it that should not say it
• S115 He who SAYS (does) what he would he would not
• S116 It is sooner (easier, better) SAID than done
• S117 No sooner SAID than done (So said so done)
• S118 That is better SAID nor banned
• S119 SAYING and doing are two things
• S120 SAYING goes good cheap
• S121 SAYING is one thing and doing another
• S122 SAY WELL and do well end with one letter, say well is good but do well is better
• S123 SAY WELL is good but do well is better
• S124 It will prove (breed) a SCAB in the end
• S125 He lay in his SCABBARD, as many a good sword has done
• S126 He lay in his SCABBARD, as many a good sword has done
• S127 SCANDERBEG's sword must have Scanderbeg's arm
• S128 SCARBOROUGH WARNING¹
• S129 One does the SCATHE and another has the scorn
• S130 Better two SCATHES¹ (seils¹) than one sorrow
• S131 A SCEPTER is one thing and a ladle another
• S132 As good a SCHOLAR as my horse Ball
• S133 A diligent SCHOLAR and the master's paid
• S134 He that robs a SCHOLAR robs twenty men
• S135 A mere SCHOLAR is a mere ass
• S136 The SCHOLAR may be better than the master by a time
• S137 A SCHOLAR may be gulled thrice, a soldier owl'd¹ but once
• S138 The SCHOLAR teaches his master
• S139 SCHOOLBOYS are the reasonablest people in the world, they care not how little they have for their money
• S140 To taste of SCHOOLBUTTER
• S141 Much SCIENCE¹ much sorrow
• S142 SCIENCE¹ has no enemy but of the ignorant
• S143 SCIENCE¹ is nought worth without conscience
• S144 A SCOFF is the reward of bashfulness
• S145 Who has a SCOLD has sorrow to his sops
• S146 SCOLDS and infants never lin¹ bawling
• S147 Pay the old SCORE and fetch on the new
• S148 To cast up old SCORES
• S149 SCORE twice before you cut once
• S150 SCORN at first makes afterlove the more
• S151 SCORN comes commonly with scathe
• S152 SCORNING (Mocking) is catching
• S153 Those that are stung by the SCORPION are healed by the scorpion
• S154 As false as a SCOT
• S155 As hardhearted as a SCOT of Scotland
• S156 A SCOT on Scot's bank
• S157 We will not lose a SCOT
• S158 SCOT's vessel holds not heap
• S159 To pay SCOT AND LOT
• S160 Out of all SCOTCH AND NOTCH
• S161 The SCOTCH ORDINARY
• S162 SCOTSMEN reckon aye from an ill hour
• S163 He has escaped a SCOURING
• S164 It is brave SCRAMBLING at a rich man's dole
• S165 By SCRATCHING and biting cats and dogs come together
• S166 SCRATCHING and eating wants but a beginning
• S167 Too much SCRATCHING pains, too much talking plagues
• S168 Who expounds SCRIPTURE upon his own warrant lays together hot brands with his fingers
• S169 Between SCYLLA and Charybdis
• S170 As mad as the troubled SEA
• S171 Being on the SEA, sail; being on land, settle
• S172 He complains wrongfully on the SEA that twice suffers shipwreck
• S173 He that will learn to pray let him go to SEA
• S174 In a calm SEA every man may be a pilot
• S175 It is hard to sail over the SEA in an eggshell
• S176 Let the SEA swell and rise as high as he will, yet hath God appointed how far he shall go
• S177 Praise (Commend) the SEA but keep on land (ashore)
• S178 The SEA and the gallows refuse none
• S179 The SEA complains it wants water
• S180 The SEA has fish for every man
• S181 The SEA refuses no river (is never full)
• S182 Send him to the SEA and he will not get water
• S183 To laue (empty) the SEA with a nutshell (cockle-shell, spoon)
• S184 To plow the SEA
• S185 Who goes not by SEA knows not what the fear of God is
• S186 The greatest SEAS have the sorest storms
• S187 He promises SEAS and mountains
• S188 Many SEAMS¹ many beans
• S189 A SEAMAN, if he carries a millstone, will have a quart¹ out of it
• S190 Everything is good in its SEASON
• S191 You have not got the first SEAT on the midding¹ today
• S192 He that tells his SECRET is another's servant (slave)
• S193 A SECRET is too little for one, enough for two, too much for three
• S194 A SECRET ought to be hidden
• S195 Thy SECRET is thy prisoner, if thou let it go thou art a prisoner to it
• S196 Trust no SECRET with a woman
• S197 If you would know SECRETS look them in grief or pleasure
• S198 It is done SECUNDUM USUM SARUM
• S199 He that means to pay gives good SECURITY
• S200 Better to be blind than to SEE ill
• S201 I may SEE him need but I'll not see him bleed
• S202 It is easy to SEE, hard to foresee
• S203 SEE me and see me not
• S204 To SEE it rain is better than to be in it
• S205 We SEE sleeping that which we wish for waking
• S206 Who so blind as he that will not SEE?
• S207 I have SEEN as far come as nigh
• S208 Seldom SEEN soon forgotten
• S209 He that sows good SEED shall reap good corn
• S210 Such SEED such harvest
• S211 Of little SEEDS grow great cedars (trees)
• S212 SEEING is believing
• S213 He that SEEKS finds
• S214 Be what thou would SEEM to be
• S215 SEGGING¹ is good cope²
• S216 SEIL¹ comes not while (till) sorrow be gone (over)
• S217 SELF do self have
• S218 SELF-LOVE is a mote in every man's eye
• S219 SELF-PRESERVATION is nature's first law
• S220 Rather SELL than be poor
• S221 Better SOLD than bought
• S222 The SELVAGE shows the cloth
• S223 SEND and fetch
• S224 SEPTEMBER, blow soft till the fruit is in the loft
• S225 Whited SEPULCHERS (Women are whited sepulchers)
• S226 A SERGEANT is the spawn of some decayed shop-keeper
• S227 He that has been bitten by a SERPENT is afraid of a rope
• S228 A SERPENT must eat another serpent before he can become a dragon
• S229 When the SERPENT is dead the poison will not hurt
• S230 Choose none for thy SERVANT who has served thy betters
• S231 A common SERVANT is no man's servant
• S232 A good SERVANT must come when you call him, go when you bid him, and shut the door after him
• S233 A good SERVANT should have the back of an ass, the tongue of a sheep, and the snout of a swine
• S234 He that has one SERVANT has two, he that has two has but half a one, and he that has three has none at all
• S235 An ill SERVANT will never be a good master
• S236 Never keep a SERVANT against his will, nor kinsman, nor friend, if you intend to be well served
• S237 One must be a SERVANT before he can be a master
• S238 A SERVANT is known in the absence of his master
• S239 The SERVANT of a king is a king
• S240 A SERVANT that is diligent, honest, and good must sing at his work like a bird in the wood
• S241 To the SERVANT the bit of good manners
• S242 So many SERVANTS so many enemies (foes)
• S243 He is not free that SERVES others
• S244 He that SERVES everybody is paid by nobody
• S245 He that SERVES must serve
• S246 He that has not SERVED knows not how to command
• S247 He that will be SERVED must be patient
• S248 If you would be well SERVED serve yourself
• S249 The first SERVICE a child does his father is to make him foolish
• S250 Good SERVICE is a great enchantment
• S251 No SERVICE to the king's
• S252 Proffered SERVICE (ware) stinks
• S253 SERVICE is no inheritance (heritage)
• S254 SERVICE without reward is punishment
• S255 An old SERVINGMAN a young beggar
• S256 A young SERVINGMAN an old beggar
• S257 SEVEN at a feast, nine at a fray
• S258 Sometimes SEVERITY is better than gentleness
• S259 You may as soon sip up the SEVERN and swallow Mavern¹
• S260 The SEXTON is a fatal musician
• S261 To be afraid of his own (a) SHADOW
• S262 To fight with one's own SHADOW
• S263 To follow one like his SHADOW
• S264 To make a SHAFT (bolt) or a bolt (shaft) of it
• S265 You can never made a good SHAFT (arrow) of a pig's (sow's) tail
• S266 He that borrows must pay again with SHAME or loss
• S267 He that deceives me once SHAME fall him, if he deceives me twice shame fall me
• S268 He that wants SHAME shall never much credit win
• S269 It is a SHAME to steal (to steal a horse) but a worse to carry (bring him) home
• S270 No greater SHAME to a man than to be a cuckold
• S271 Past SHAME past amendment (Shame once found is lost)
• S272 SHAME fall the couple, quoth the crow to her feet
• S273 SHAME in a kindred cannot be avoided
• S274 SHAME is as it is taken
• S275 SHAME is past the shed of your hair
• S276 SHAME shall fall them that shame think to do themselves a good turn
• S277 SHAME take (Evil to) him that shame (evil) thinks
• S278 Single long, SHAME at length
• S279 Some thinking to redeem their SHAME redouble it
• S280 To have eaten SHAME and drunk after it
• S281 Where no SHAME is there is no fear
• S282 He that SHAMES shall be shent
• S283 The SHAPE of a good greyhound: a head like a snake, a neck like a drake, a back like a beam, a belly like a bream, a foot like a cat, a tail like a rat
• S284 To lick into SHAPE
• S285 As many SHAPES as Proteus
• S286 SHARE and share alike
• S287 It is ill SHAVING against the wool
• S288 I have taken the SHEAF from the mare
• S289 I will take as falls in the SHEAF wherever it fall
• S290 An ill SHEARER never got a good hook
• S291 To be proud (To make much) of one's painted SHEATH
• S292 As savage as a SHE-BEAR when she is robbed of her whelps
• S293 As good be hanged for an old SHEEP as a young lamb
• S294 As hasty as a SHEEP
• S295 As rich as a new-shorn SHEEP
• S296 A black SHEEP is a biting (perilous) beast
• S297 A bleating SHEEP loses her bit
• S298 The glorious SHEEP said to the goat, Give me some of your wool
• S299 He is as bare as a new-shorn SHEEP
• S300 He that makes himself a SHEEP shall be eaten by the wolf
• S301 If SHEEP run willfully among wolves they shall lose either life or fell
• S302 If you cannot tell,¹ you are nought to keep SHEEP
• S303 It is a foolish SHEEP that makes the wolf her confessor
• S304 It is a SHEEP of Berry, it is marked on the nose
• S305 Let the black SHEEP keep the white
• S306 The lone SHEEP is in danger of the wolf
• S307 Now I have a SHEEP and a cow everybody bids me good morrow
• S308 One scabbed SHEEP mars (infects) a whole flock
• S309 One SHEEP follows another
• S310 Shear SHEEP that has them
• S311 Shear your SHEEP in May and shear them all away
• S312 A SHEEP often strays if the shepherd is away
• S313 Some good, some bad, as SHEEP come to the fold
• S314 They are but SHEEP that flock together
• S315 To a close-shorn SHEEP God gives wind by measure
• S316 To know one from a black SHEEP
• S317 To run at (after) SHEEP
• S318 To seek in a SHEEP five feet where there is but four
• S319 To steal a SHEEP and give away the trotters for God's sake
• S320 Where SHEEP are wool is
• S321 Whoso keeps well SHEEP and bees, sleep or wake their thrift comes in
• S322 You have no more SHEEP to shear
• S323 He casts a SHEEP's EYE at her
• S324 I will gar¹ you girn² like a SHEEPSHEAD on a tongs
• S325 When SHEFFIELD PARK is plowed and sown then little England hold thine own
• S326 It is good to have a SHELTER against every storm
• S327 It is good SHELTERING under an old hedge
• S328 As the SHEPHERD is such is the flock (sheep)
• S329 A good SHEPHERD must fleece his sheep but not flay them
• S330 When the SHEPHERD is angry with his sheep he sends them a blind guide
• S331 A SHERIFF had he been and a countor,¹ was nowhere such a vavasor²
• S332 Cover yourself with your SHIELD and care not for cries
• S333 A good SHIFT may serve long but it will not serve ever
• S334 He went out with SHIFT and came home with shame
• S335 Hang him that has no SHIFTS
• S336 Hang him that has no SHIFTS and hang him that has too many
• S337 He is put to his SHIFTS
• S338 Better give a SHILLING (penny) than lend and lose half a crown
• S339 You will follow him long ere five SHILLINGS fall from him
• S340 Shropshire sharp SHINS
• S341 Swear by your burnt SHINS
• S342 That goes against the SHINS
• S343 He is only bright that SHINES by himself
• S344 As broken a SHIP has come to land
• S345 A dear SHIP stands long in the haven
• S346 A great SHIP asks deep waters
• S347 Like a SHIP without a helm (stern, steersman, ballast)
• S348 A little SHIP needs not but a little sail
• S349 A SHIP, a man, a bird, and a snake go an uncertain way
• S350 A SHIP and a woman are ever repairing
• S351 A SHIP under sail, a man in complete armor, a woman with a great belly are three of the handsomest sights
• S352 The SHIP which is large on the river is small on the sea
• S353 To a crazy (broken) SHIP all winds are contrary (ill)
• S354 SHIPS fear fire more than water
• S355 Let another's SHIPWRECK be your seamark
• S356 Close fits (sits) my SHIRT (coat) but closer my skin
• S357 If my SHIRT knew my secrets I would burn it
• S358 SHITTEN COME SHITES is the beginning of love
• S359 A SHIVE¹ of my own loaf
• S360 To cut a large SHIVE¹ of another man's loaf
• S361 Go fiddle for SHIVES¹ among goodwives (old wives)
• S362 The SHOATS overgo the old swine
• S363 A black SHOE makes a blithe (merry) heart
• S364 Every (One) SHOE fits not every foot
• S365 The finest SHOE often hurts the foot
• S366 A great (Hercules') SHOE will not fit a little (a child's) foot
• S367 He knows not whether his SHOE goes awry
• S368 He that makes the SHOE cannot tan the leather
• S369 If it will not be a good SHOE let it go down in the heel
• S370 Like SHOE like soles (last)
• S371 The SHOE will hold with the sole
• S372 To cast an old SHOE after one for luck
• S373 To tread one's SHOE awry
• S374 He is over SHOES at first step
• S375 He should wear iron SHOES that bides his neighbor's dead¹.
• S376 His SHOES are made of running leather
• S377 Meddle with your old SHOES
• S378 Not worthy to wipe his SHOES
• S379 Over SHOES over boots
• S380 To be over SHOES
• S381 To die in one's SHOES
• S382 Not worth SHOE BUCKLES
• S383 We play not for SHOE BUCKLES
• S384 Though SHOEING-HORNS be out of date yet horns are as plentiful as ever
• S385 In the SHOEMAKER's stocks
• S386 A SHOEMAKER's son is a prince born
• S387 Who is worse shod than the SHOEMAKER's wife (the shoemaker's wife and the smith's mare)?
• S388 He that's always SHOOTING must sometime hit
• S389 Far SHOOTING never killed bird
• S390 Short SHOOTING loses the game
• S391 He that keeps SHOP must speak to everyone
• S392 Keep thy SHOP and thy shop will keep thee
• S393 Let him set up SHOP on Goodwin's Sands
• S394 He has shut up SHOPWINDOWS
• S395 Ye lean to the wrong SHORE
• S396 SHORT and sweet
• S397 She is SHORT-HEELED
• S398 To pay the SHOT (scot)
• S399 As fit as a SHOULDER of mutton for a sick horse
• S400 He could have sung well before he broke his left SHOULDER with whistling
• S401 In a SHOULDER of veal there are twenty and two good bits
• S402 One SHOULDER of mutton draws (drives) down another
• S403 Put your SHOULDER to the wheel
• S404 SHOULDER of mutton and English beer make the Flemmings tarry here
• S405 To get over the left SHOULDER
• S406 When the SHOULDER of mutton is going it is good to take a slice
• S407 To have good broad SHOULDERS
• S408 More SHOW than substance
• S409 To make a fair SHOW in a country church
• S410 He is like an April SHOWER, that wets the stone nine times in an hour
• S411 April SHOWERS bring May flowers
• S412 It is better to be a SHREW than a sheep
• S413 One SHREW is worth two sheep
• S414 A SHREW profitable may serve a man reasonable
• S415 He has been at SHRIFT
• S416 At SHROVETIDE it will be known who has the fat hen
• S417 To give one the Neapolitan SHRUG
• S418 SICHEM marries the wife and Mifgaeus is circumcised
• S419 Seldom SICK sore sick
• S420 Put not thy SICKLE in another man's corn (harvest)
• S421 The SICKLE and the scythe, that love I not to see, but the good ale tankard, happy might it be
• S422 Who marries between the SICKLE and the scythe will never thrive
• S423 The SICKNESS of the body is the health of the soul
• S424 SICKNESS soaks the purse
• S425 He knows on which SIDE his bread is buttered
• S426 He rose on his right (wrong, left) SIDE
• S427 I will not take from my left SIDE (hand) to give to my right
• S428 To be on the safer (better) SIDE of the hedge
• S429 To have a blind SIDE
• S430 To laugh but of one SIDE (on the other side, on the wrong side) of the mouth
• S431 To set the fair (best) SIDE forward (outward)
• S432 You make the better SIDE the worse
• S433 Both SIDES are losers
• S434 As much sibbed¹ as SIEVE² and ridder³ that grew both in a wood together
• S435 To be like a SIEVE
• S436 SIGH not but send, he will come if he be unhanged
• S437 Out of SIGHT out of languor¹
• S438 Out of SIGHT out of mind
• S439 The SIGHT of a man has the force of a lion
• S440 To play least in SIGHT
• S441 He lives under the SIGN of the cat's foot
• S442 It is an ill SIGN to see a fox lick a lamb
• S443 Ecce SIGNUM
• S444 No SILENCE was ever written
• S445 SILENCE does seldom harm
• S446 SILENCE is (gives) consent
• S447 SILENCE is the best ornament of a woman
• S448 Better SILENT than saucy
• S449 As soft as SILK
• S450 The fairest SILK is soonest soiled
• S451 SILK and satin (Fine clothes) make not a gentleman
• S452 SILKS and satins put out the fire in the chimney (kitchen)
• S453 As bright (white) as SILVER
• S454 Bonny SILVER is soon spent
• S455 He that has no SILVER (money) in his purse should have silver (silk, honey) on his tongue
• S456 No SILVER no servant
• S457 No SILVER (gold) without his dross
• S458 SILVER has a silver sound
• S459 White SILVER draws black lines
• S460 No SIMILITUDE (metaphor) walks (runs) upon all four (on four wheels)
• S461 Sup, SIMON, the best is at the bottom (here is good broth)
• S462 SIMPER DE COCKET
• S463 To be cut for (of) the SIMPLES
• S464 To be sick of the SIMPLES
• S465 As ugly as SIN
• S466 Dissembled SIN is double wickedness
• S467 Every SIN brings its punishment with it
• S468 He shall sink in his own SIN
• S469 It is a SIN against hospitality to open your doors and shut up your countenance
• S470 It is a SIN to belie the devil
• S471 Old SIN breeds (makes) new shame (repentance)
• S472 A SIN unseen is half pardoned
• S473 Successful (Prosperous) SIN passes for virtue
• S474 Who swims in SIN (vice) shall drown in it (in vanity)
• S475 Compelled SINS are no sins
• S476 Our SINS and our debts (years) are often more than we think
• S477 SINS are not known till they be acted
• S478 The SINS of the offenders are the strength of the tyrants
• S479 When all SINS grow old covetousness grows young
• S480 Today we SING tomorrow we weep
• S481 Many a one SINGS that is full sorry
• S482 All good SINGERS have colds
• S483 February SINGING never stints stinging
• S484 Better be still SINGLE than ill married
• S485 SINK or swim
• S486 To call one SIR and something else
• S487 SIR JOHN BARLEYCORN is nobody with him
• S488 SIR JOHN BARLEYCORN is the strongest knight
• S489 She is a SISTER of the charterhouse¹
• S490 The three SISTERS
• S491 Better (As good) SIT still than (as) rise and fall
• S492 Poorly (Lowly) SIT richly warm
• S493 He SITS not sure that sits too high
• S494 He that SITS well thinks ill
• S495 It is as cheap SITTING as standing
• S496 If SIZE CINQUE will not and deuce ace cannot, then quatre trey must
• S497 If SKIDDAW has a cap Scruffel wots full well of that
• S498 SKIDDAW, Lauvellin, and Casticand are the highest hills in all England
• S499 He hath good SKILL in horseflesh, to buy a goose to ride on
• S500 SKILL and confidence are an unconquered army
• S501 Try your SKILL in gilt first and then in gold
• S502 You have good SKILL of roasted wool, when it stinks it is enough
• S503 The SKILLFULEST wanting money is scorned
• S504 To ride SKIMMINGTON
• S505 As near to one as one's SKIN
• S506 As true (honest) as the SKIN between your brows
• S507 He is ready to leap out of his SKIN for joy
• S508 It will be long enough ere you wish your SKIN full of holes (eyelet holes)
• S509 Pull off the SKIN in the streets and receive thy wages
• S510 To escape with the SKIN of one's teeth
• S511 Ware SKINS (shins), quoth Grubber when he flung the louse into the fire
• S512 Not worth three SKIPS of a louse (pie¹)
• S513 I will sit on your SKIRTS
• S514 Who has SKIRTS of straw needs fear the fire
• S515 A red SKY in the evening is a sign of a fair day
• S516 What if the SKY fall?
• S517 When (If) the SKY (heaven) falls we shall have (catch) larks
• S518 To praise (extol) one to the SKIES
• S519 Thou wilt strip it as SLACK stripped the cat when he pulled her out of the churn
• S520 It may be a SLANDER but it is no lie
• S521 SLANDER is a shipwreck by a dry tempest
• S522 SLANDER leaves a score¹ (scar) behind it
• S523 Base is the SLAVE that pays (is commanded)
• S524 Give a SLAVE a rod and he'll beat his master
• S525 He that SLAYS shall be slain
• S526 SLEEP is the brother (kinsman, cousin) of death
• S527 SLEEP is the image of death
• S528 SLEEP lasts half a man's life
• S529 She is never quiet but when she is SLEEPING
• S530 It is good SLEEPING in a whole skin
• S531 A broken SLEEVE holds the arm back
• S532 They had thought to have put others into a SLEEVE and they are put in themselves
• S533 To hang on one's SLEEVE
• S534 To have in one's SLEEVE
• S535 To laugh in one's SLEVE
• S536 You spit on your own SLEEVE
• S537 Three SLIPS for a tester
• S538 A SLIP of the tongue is wont to tell the truth
• S539 As black as a SLOE¹
• S540 When the SLOETREE is as white as a sheet sow your barley whether it be dry or wet
• S541 SLOTH (Idleness) breeds a scab
• S542 SLOTH turns the edge of wit
• S543 The SLOTHFUL is the servant of the counters¹
• S544 SLOW but sure
• S545 The SLUGGARD loves alife¹ things done to his hands
• S546 The SLUGGARD must be clad in rags
• S547 The SLUGGARD's guise, loath to go to bed and loath to rise
• S548 With SLUGGARDS every day is holiday
• S549 One SLUMBER (sleep) invites another
• S550 A foul SLUT under a black hat seems somewhat
• S551 A SLUT will poison thy gut
• S552 There was never a SLUT but had a slit, there was never a daw but had twa
• S553 SLUTS are good enough to make slovens' pot-tage (porridge)
• S554 Many SMALLS make a great
• S555 The best SMELL is bread, the best savor salt, the best love that of children
• S556 The SMELL of garlic takes away the stink of dunghills
• S557 Of all SMELLS bread, of all tastes salt
• S558 I SMELL him out
• S559 To go westward for SMELTS
• S560 Better is the last SMILE than the first laughter
• S561 The SMITH and his penny both are black
• S562 The SMITH has always a spark in his throat
• S563 Like the SMITH's dog, that sleeps at the noise of the hammers and wakes at the crashing of teeth
• S564 A SMITHFIELD BARGAIN¹
• S565 The little SMITH OF NOTTINGHAM, who does the work that no man can
• S566 You been like SMITHWICK, either clemmed¹ or borsten²
• S567 He that has more SMOCKS than shirts in a bucking¹ had need be a man of good forelooking
• S568 Much SMOKE little fire
• S569 No SMOKE without some fire
• S570 Shunning the SMOKE he fell into the fire
• S571 The SMOKE follows the fair
• S572 The SMOKE of a man's own house (country) is better than the fire of another's
• S573 SMOKE of Charren
• S574 SMOKE, rain, and a very curst wife make a man weary of house and life
• S575 To feed oneself with SMOKE
• S576 To sell (buy) SMOKE
• S577 I will SMOKE you
• S578 To go SNACKS
• S579 As slow as a SNAIL
• S580 Like a SNAIL, he keeps his house on his back (head)
• S581 The SNAIL in time climbs up the castle's tower
• S582 You drive a SNAIL to Rome
• S583 To go a SNAIL's gallop
• S584 He has eaten a SNAKE
• S585 SNAKE in the grass
• S586 SNAPPING so short makes you look so lean
• S587 A SNATCH and away
• S588 The SNITE need not the woodcock betwit
• S589 To throw SNOT about
• S590 As seasonable (welcome) as SNOW in summer (harvest)
• S591 As white as the driven SNOW
• S592 The SNOW for eight days is a mother to the earth, but after a stepmother
• S593 SNOW is white and lies in the dike and every man lets it lie; pepper is black and has a good smack and every man does it buy
• S594 Whether you boil SNOW or pound it you can have but water of it
• S595 Like a SNOWBALL, that rolling becomes bigger
• S596 Cease your SNOWBALLS casting
• S597 SNOWDON (Eriry) will yield sufficient pasture for all the cattle of Wales put together
• S598 To take in SNUFF
• S599 It works like SOAP (wax) in a sow's tail (ear)
• S600 What SOBERNNESS conceals drunkenness reveals
• S601 SOFT AND FAIR goes far
• S602 It is a bad SOIL (ground) where no flowers will grow
• S603 An excellent SOLDIER, he lacks nothing but a heart and a feather
• S604 A SOLDIER in a pair of sheets
• S605 SOLDIERS in peace are like chimneys in summer
• S606 SOLENESS brings sadness
• S607 To make one sing SOL-FA
• S608 She is chaste whom no one has SOLICITED (who has withstood temptation)
• S609 As wise as SOLOMON
• S610 Says SOLOMON the wise, A good wife's a goodly prize
• S611 Here SOME and there some
• S612 SOME are wise and some are otherwise
• S613 SOME wiser than some
• S614 SOME AND SOME is honest play
• S615 A SOMERTON ENDING
• S616 Give SOMETHING of thine own to the devil and turn him away
• S617 He that rises betimes has SOMETHING in his head
• S618 It is good to be doing SOMETHING
• S619 Save SOMETHING for the man that rides on the white horse
• S620 SOMETHING (Somewhat) has some savor
• S621 There is SOMETHING (somewhat) in the wind
• S622 Where SOMETHING is found, there look again
• S623 SOMEWHAT (Something) is better than nothing
• S624 Everyone is the SON of his own works
• S625 I am not sorry that my SON loses at play but that he will have a revenge
• S626 Marry your SON when you will, your daughter when you can
• S627 My SON, buy no stocks
• S628 My SON is my son till he has got him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life
• S629 The SON full and tattered, the daughter empty and fine
• S630 The SON of a bachelor
• S631 A SON of a whore never did well
• S632 A SON of the white hen
• S633 His evening SONG and morning song are not (are) both alike
• S634 Let him that begins the SONG make an end
• S635 Let him that begins the SONG make an end
• S636 To sell (buy) it for a SONG
• S637 To sing another SONG
• S638 To sing the same (one) SONG
• S639 He makes two SONS-IN-LAW of one daughter
• S640 SOON enough if well enough
• S641 The SOONER the better
• S642 As black as SOOT
• S643 To give a SOP to Cerberus
• S644 Good SOPS may be made in an old pot
• S645 Good SOPS may be made in an old pot
• S646 A small SORE wants not a great plaster
• S647 SORE upon sore is not a salve
• S648 Where the SORE is there is the hand
• S649 To rip up (rub) old SORES
• S650 Fat SORROW is better than lean sorrow
• S651 He is well worth SORROW that buys it with his silver
• S652 SORROW and an evil life make soon an old wife
• S653 SORROW be in the house that you're beguiled in
• S654 SORROW comes unsent for
• S655 SORROW gars¹ websters spin
• S656 SORROW is dry
• S657 SORROW is good for nothing but sin
• S658 SORROW is laughter's daughter
• S659 SORROW is soon enough when it comes
• S660 SORROW will pay no debt
• S661 To have SORROW to his sops
• S662 When SORROW is asleep wake it not
• S663 Make not two SORROWS of one
• S664 Small SORROWS (griefs) speak, great ones are silent
• S665 Who sings does scare away his SORROWS
• S666 There must be all SORTS in the world
• S667 She dares not say her SOUL is her own
• S668 The SOUL needs few things, the body many
• S669 You put a silly SOUL to be a keeper for the devil's good grace
• S670 A SOULCAKE,¹ a soulcake, have mercy on all Christian souls for a soulcake
• S671 He was born within the SOUND of Bow bell
• S672 As meet as a SOW to bear a saddle
• S673 As necessary as a SOW among young children
• S674 As the SOW fills, the draff sours
• S675 Every SOW to her own trough
• S676 Little knows the fat SOW (man) what the lean does mean
• S677 A SOW does sooner than a cow bring an ox to the plow
• S678 A SOW in a feather bed
• S679 A SOW to a fiddle
• S680 A SOW (swine) to teach Minerva
• S681 The still SOW eats up all the draff
• S682 To grease a fat SOW in the tail
• S683 A yeld¹ SOW was never good to grices²
• S684 You have the SOW by the right (wrong) ear
• S685 You take the wrong SOW by the ear
• S686 To come sailing in a SOW's ear
• S687 As they SOW so let them reap
• S688 Early SOW early mow
• S689 SOW dry and set wet
• S690 SOW thin (little) mow thin (little)
• S691 One SOWS, another reaps
• S692 Thick SOWN and (but) thin comes up
• S693 The rath¹ (early) SOWER never borrows of the late
• S694 Forbear not SOWING because of birds
• S695 It is good SOWING in a fruitful ground
• S696 It is good SOWING in a fruitful ground
• S697 In SPACE comes grace
• S698 In SPACE comes grace
• S699 To call a SPADE a spade
• S700 Would you make me trow that SPADE SHAFTS bear plums?
• S701 He that trusts much obliges much, says the SPANIARD
• S702 The SPANIARD is a bad servant but a worse master
• S703 Talk much and err much, says the SPANIARD
• S704 As flattering (fawning) as a SPANIEL
• S705 The SPANIEL, that fawns when he is beaten, will never forsake his master
• S706 Ever SPARE and ever bare
• S707 SPARE and spend
• S708 SPARE not to spend but spare to go thither
• S709 SPARE to speak spare to speed
• S710 He that SPARES when he is young may the better spend when he is old
• S711 Better SPARED than ill spent
• S712 SPARING is the first gaining (getting)
• S713 Any small SPARK shines in the dark
• S714 Of a little SPARK a great fire
• S715 As lustful as SPARROWS
• S716 Old SPARROWS are ill to tame
• S717 Two SPARROWS on one ear of corn cannot agree
• S718 Many Sᴘᴇᴀᴋ much who cannot SPEAK well
• S719 SPEAK and speed, ask and have
• S720 SPEAK fair and think what you will
• S721 SPEAK fitly or be silent wisely
• S722 SPEAK of what you understand
• S723 SPEAK when you are spoken to, come when you are called
• S724 To SPEAK as one finds
• S725 To SPEAK (Not to speak) as one thinks
• S726 He that SPEAKS lavishly shall hear as knavishly
• S727 He that SPEAKS me fair and loves me not, I'll SPEAK him fair and trust him not
• S728 He that SPEAKS much is much mistaken
• S729 Who SPEAKS not errs not
• S730 That is well SPOKEN (There is nothing ill said) that is well taken
• S731 The SPEAR of Achilles could both wound and heal
• S732 Who has a good SPEAR let him prove it against a wall
• S733 SPECTACLES are death's arquebus
• S734 He is but daft that has to do and spares for every SPEECH
• S735 SPEECH is the picture (index) of the mind
• S736 All the SPEED is in the spurs
• S737 They are as wise that SPEER¹ not
• S738 SPEND as you get
• S739 SPEND not where you may save, spare not where you must spend
• S740 Who SPENDS before he thrives will beg before he thinks
• S741 Better SPENT than spared
• S742 What we SPENT we had, what we gave we have, what we lent we lost
• S743 To a good SPENDER God is the treasurer
• S744 Great SPENDERS are bad lenders
• S745 In SPENDING lies the advantage
• S746 If you beat (pound) SPICE it will smell the sweeter
• S747 Who has SPICE enough may season his meat as he pleases
• S748 SPICK-AND-SPAN-NEW (Spick-and-span)
• S749 He has swallowed a SPIDER
• S750 Spare at the SPIGOT and let it out at the bung-hole
• S751 He SPILLS unspoken to
• S752 To go to SPILSBY
• S753 Get thy SPINDLE and distaff ready and God will send thee flax
• S754 The SPINDLE is miserable when a beard¹ is not above it
• S755 That which will not be spun let it not come between the SPINDLE and the distaff
• S756 To make a SPINDLE of a spar (spear)
• S757 The diligent SPINNER has a large shift
• S758 SPINNING out of time never made good cloth
• S759 A poor SPIRIT is poorer than a poor purse
• S760 The SPIRIT is willing but the flesh is weak
• S761 The SPIRIT of building is come upon him
• S762 Well-bred SPIRITS seldom degenerate
• S763 A SPIT and a stride
• S764 In SPITE of one's teeth (nose, heart)
• S765 I will not be your SPITTING-PLACE
• S766 To rob the SPITTLE¹
• S767 You must SPOIL before you spin
• S768 The highest SPOKE in fortune's wheel may soon turn lowest
• S769 To set (put) a SPOKE in one's cart (wheel)
• S770 The worst SPOKE in a cart breaks first
• S771 He must have a long SPOON that will eat with the devil
• S772 He was born with a silver SPOON (a penny) in his mouth
• S773 To feed with a SPOON
• S774 A SPOONFUL of skitter¹ will spill² a potful of skink³
• S775 He that cannot make SPORT should mar none
• S776 It is a poor SPORT (play) that is not worth the candle
• S777 No SPORT no pie
• S778 Some SPORT is sauce to pains
• S779 SPORT is sweetest when there be no spectators
• S780 In SPORTS and journeys men are known
• S781 A SPOT is most seen upon the finest cloth
• S782 There are SPOTS even on the sun
• S783 Yellow SPOTS on the hand (nails) presage death
• S784 That which doth blossom in the SPRING will bring forth fruit in the autumn
• S785 When there is a SPRING in winter and a winter in spring the year is never good
• S786 He has a SPRING at his elbow
• S787 Old SPRINGS give no price
• S788 A SPRINGE¹ to catch a woodcock²
• S789 He is all on the SPUR
• S790 A SPUR and a whip for a dull horse
• S791 A SPUR in the head is worth two in the heel
• S792 He has won his SPURS
• S793 Seldom rides tines¹ the SPURS
• S794 Untimeous¹ SPURRING spills² the steed
• S795 SPIES are the ears and eyes of princes
• S796 To play upon the SQUARE
• S797 As nimble as a SQUIRREL
• S798 Cast your STAFF into the air and it will fall upon its root or heavy end
• S799 He is come to the STAFF and the wallet
• S800 He that has a STAFF may beat away a knave
• S801 If the STAFF be crooked the shadow cannot be straight
• S802 To be beaten with one's own STAFF
• S803 To be not sure of his STAFF
• S804 To set up one's STAFF
• S805 Trust (Lean) not to a broken STAFF
• S806 Your STAFF stands next to the door
• S807 To hold one at STAFF's (stave's) end
• S808 STAFFORD¹ LAW
• S809 As stiff (still) as a STAKE (staff)
• S810 He has eaten (swallowed) a STAKE
• S811 An ill (poor) STAKE that cannot stand one year in a hedge (the ground)
• S812 The loath (ill, loose) STAKE stands long (longest)
• S813 The low STAKE stands long
• S814 To water a STAKE (post)
• S815 Small STAKES make cold play
• S816 To make one a STALKING-HORSE
• S817 He is at a STAND
• S818 As true as you STAND there
• S819 To STAND buff
• S820 He STANDS not surely that never slips
• S821 Long STANDERS are but short doers
• S822 STANDERS-BY (Lookers-on) see more than gamesters (players)
• S823 The higher STANDING (up) the lower (greater) fall
• S824 Long STANDING and small (little) offering makes poor parsons (priests, a poor price)
• S825 One may point (look) at a STAR but not pull (reach) at it
• S826 STARS are not seen by sunshine (at midday)
• S827 To look at the STARS and fall into a ditch
• S828 He has gotten the START of him
• S829 The greater STATE the more wisdom
• S830 The greatest STATE is the less sure
• S831 He takes STATE on him
• S832 STATES have their conversions and periods as well as natural bodies
• S833 Talk not too much of STATE AFFAIRS
• S834 As mute as a STATUE
• S835 He that can STAY obtains
• S836 It stands one in as much STEAD as a looking glass does a blind man
• S837 It is ill (hard) STEALING from a thief
• S838 When the STEED (horse) is stolen shut the stable door
• S839 As hard (stiff, strong, tough) as STEEL
• S840 As true (trusty, sure) as STEEL
• S841 As true STEEL as Ripon rowels
• S842 He is STEEL (metal) to the back
• S843 STEEL cuts steel
• S844 There is STEEL in my needle's eye though there be little of it
• S845 With a little STEEL a little man's armed
• S846 The greatest (hardest) STEP is that out of doors (over the threshold)
• S847 STEP after step goes far
• S848 STEP after step the ladder is ascended
• S849 Dress up a STICK and it does not seem to be a stick
• S850 A straight STICK is crooked in the water
• S851 Little STICKS kindle the fire but great ones put it out
• S852 Two dry STICKS will kindle a green one
• S853 He that is truly hungry will not STICK to eat anything
• S854 STICKING¹ goes not by strength but by guiding of the gully²
• S855 He that will not go over the STILE must be thrust through the gate
• S856 You would be (leap) over the STILE before you come at it
• S857 Essex STILES, Kentish miles, Norfolk wiles, many men beguiles
• S858 The STING is in the tail
• S859 There is a STING in the tail of all unlawful pleasures
• S860 He keeps a STIR but is no constable
• S861 I would I might never STIR else
• S862 The more you STIR the more (worse) you stink
• S863 There is great STIRRING in the North when old wives ride scout
• S864 As good holds the STIRRUP as he that loups¹ on
• S865 To have (take) a STITCH¹ against someone
• S866 Who lacks a STOCK his gain is not worth a chip
• S867 To beat one like a STOCKFISH¹
• S868 To wear yellow STOCKINGS and cross garters
• S869 A full STOMACH is a windmill
• S870 A good STOMACH (appetite) is the best sauce (needs no sauce)
• S871 An ill STOMACH makes all the meat bitter
• S872 My STOMACH (belly) has struck twelve (rung noon)
• S873 A sharp STOMACH makes short devotion
• S874 To go against one's STOMACH
• S875 To have a STOMACH and lack meat, to have meat and lack a stomach, to lie in bed and cannot rest are great miseries
• S876 As cold as a STONE (whetstone)
• S877 As deaf as a STONE
• S878 As hard as a STONE (flint, rock)
• S879 As still as a STONE
• S880 He has not a STONE (bone) to cast (throw) at a dog
• S881 He is twice fain¹ that sits on a STONE
• S882 He that stumbles twice at the same STONE deserves to have his shins broke
• S883 If I had not lifted up the STONE you had not found the jewel
• S884 A little STONE in the way overturns a great wain
• S885 A rolling STONE gathers no moss
• S886 A rugged STONE grows smooth from hand to hand
• S887 Spit on a STONE and it will be wet at last
• S888 A STONE in a well is not lost
• S889 The STONE you throw will fall on your own head
• S890 To leave no STONE unturned
• S891 To mark with a white STONE
• S892 To roast a STONE
• S893 To swim no more than a STONE
• S894 Under every ST0NE sleeps a scorpion
• S895 You cannot flay a STONE
• S896 To throw STONES against the wind
• S897 Who remove STONES bruise their fingers
• S898 STONE-DEAD has no fellow
• S899 Put a STOOL in the sun, when one knave rises another comes
• S900 Between two STOOLS the tail (ass) goes (comes) to ground
• S901 STOPFORD LAW, no stake no draw
• S902 He that has STORE of bread may beg his milk merrily
• S903 STORE is no sore
• S904 They that have good STORE of butter (much butter) may lay it thick on their bread
• S905 To review one's STORE is to mow twice
• S906 Where there is STORE of oatmeal you may put enough in the crock
• S907 The worst STORE, a maid unbestowed
• S908 After a STORM comes a calm (fair weather)
• S909 As welcome as a STORM
• S910 A cock-and-bull STORY (tale)
• S911 No STORY without sticklers
• S912 To be STRAIT-LACED
• S913 STRAND ON THE GREEN, thirteen houses, fourteen cuckolds, and never a house between
• S914 It is no more STRANGE than true
• S915 As weak as a STRAW
• S916 It is unlawful to tread upon a STRAW lying across
• S917 Not to care (give) a STRAW (rush)
• S918 Not worth a STRAW (rush)
• S919 There lay a STRAW
• S920 To be in the STRAW
• S921 To step over a STRAW
• S922 To stumble at a STRAW and leap over a block
• S923 Go peel STRAWS
• S924 STRAWS show which way the wind blows
• S925 To pick STRAWs
• S926 It is easy to wade the STREAM where the ford is at lowest
• S927 It is hard (folly, in vain) to strive against the STREAM
• S928 A little STREAM drives a light mill
• S929 The STREAM (current, tide) stopped swells the higher
• S930 To go (swim) with the STREAM
• S931 STREAMS back to their springs do never run
• S932 STRETCHING and yawning lead to bed
• S933 STRETTON IN THE STREET, where shrews meet
• S934 Harp no more on that STRING
• S935 He harps on that STRING that gives no melody (makes no good music)
• S936 To harp upon one (the same) STRING
• S937 It is good to have two STRINGS to one's bow
• S938 Nay, stay, quoth STRINGER when his neck was in the halter
• S939 It is good STRIVING to be the best
• S940 Great STROKES make not sweet music
• S941 Many (Little) STROKES fell great oaks
• S942 Never was STRUMPET fair
• S943 He seeks for STUBBLE in a fallow field
• S944 They thrive as New College STUDENTS,¹ who are golden scholars, silver bachelors, and leaden masters
• S945 To be in a brown STUDY
• S946 To bestir (stir) one's STUMPS
• S947 A Huntington¹ STURGEON
• S948 STURT¹ pays no debt
• S949 A STYLE¹ toward and a wife forward are uneasy companions
• S950 He that is hated of his SUBJECTS cannot be counted a king
• S951 Lose not the SUBSTANCE for the shadow
• S952 SUBTLETY is better than force
• S953 To leave one (To lie, To be) in the SUDS (sands)
• S954 SUFFER and expect
• S955 Of SUFFERANCE comes ease
• S956 It is not the SUFFERING but the cause and the patience that makes a martyr
• S957 That which SUFFICES is not little
• S958 For fair SUGAR fair ratsbane
• S959 One SUIT of good apparel is worth two of bad
• S960 That SUIT is best that best fits me
• S961 A SUIT of law and a urinal bring a man to the hospital
• S962 SUITS hang half a year in Westminster Hall, at Tyburn half an hour's hanging ends all
• S963 The last SUITOR wins the maid
• S964 To be sick of the SULLENS
• S965 A small SUM will serve to pay a short reckoning
• S966 You dream of a dry SUMMER
• S967 As good as one shall see in a SUMMER's day
• S968 Although the SUN shines leave not your cloak at home
• S969 As clear as the SUN
• S970 He has been in the SUN
• S971 He has the SUN on his face and the wind on his back
• S972 He that walks much in the SUN will be tanned at last
• S973 If it rains when the SUN is shining the devil is beating his wife
• S974 The March SUN causes dust and the wind blows it about
• S975 The March SUN raises but dissolves not
• S976 March SUN sticks like a lock of wool
• S977 A morning SUN and a wine-bred child and a Latin-bred woman seldom end well
• S978 The morning SUN never lasts a day
• S979 The rising, not the setting, SUN is worshiped by most men
• S980 The same SUN softens (melts) wax and hardens clay
• S981 The SUN is comfortable
• S982 The SUN is never the worse for shining on a dunghill
• S983 The SUN never sets on the Spanish dominion
• S984 The SUN sees all things and discovers all things
• S985 The SUN shines upon all alike
• S986 The SUN together with man generates man
• S987 To get the SUN of one
• S988 To set forth the SUN with a candle (lantern, taper)
• S989 When the SUN is highest he casts the least shadow
• S990 When the SUN rises the disease will abate
• S991 Where the SUN shines there resort
• S992 Two SUNS cannot shine in one sphere
• S993 He that hangs himself on SUNDAY shall hang still uncut down on Monday
• S994 When SUNDAY comes it will be holy day
• S995 When two SUNDAYS come together
• S996 No SUNSHINE but has some shadow
• S997 Hot SUP hot swallow
• S998 It is impossible to SUP and blow together (with one breath)
• S999 Who SUPS well sleeps well
• S1000 To drink SUPERNACULUM
• S1001 I never fared worse than when I wished for my SUPPER
• S1002 If I were abed I would not rise for my SUPPER
• S1003 Light SUPPER makes long life
• S1003a To sing for one's SUPPER
• S1004 By SUPPERS more have been killed than Galen (Avicen) ever cured
• S1005 Light SUPPERS make clean sheets
• S1006 Sleep without SUPPING and wake without owing
• S1007 SURE and unsure are not all one
• S1008 I am here as SURE as you are there
• S1009 He that will be a SURETY shall pay
• S1010 Your SURETY wants a surety
• S1011 Every SURFEIT foreruns a fast
• S1012 The best SURGEON is he that has been well hacked (slashed) himself
• S1013 A good SURGEON (chirurgeon) must have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand
• S1014 An ill SURGEON without store of plasters
• S1015 SURGEONS ought not to be full of sores themselves
• S1016 SURLY and sour
• S1017 SUSPICION has double eyes
• S1018 SUSPICION is a virtue where a man holds his enemy in his bosom
• S1019 SUSPICION (Accusation) is no proof
• S1020 SUSPICION makes many to sin
• S1021 SUTTON WALL and Kenchester Hill are able to buy London were it to sell
• S1022 He is no good SWAIN that lets¹ his journey for the rain
• S1023 As swift as a SWALLOW
• S1024 Fly and you will catch the SWALLOW
• S1025 One SWALLOW makes not summer
• S1026 SWALLOWS, like false friends, fly away upon the approach of winter
• S1027 As rare as a black SWAN
• S1028 Like a SWAN, he sings before his death
• S1029 A SWARM of bees in May is worth a load of hay but a swarm in July is not worth a fly
• S1030 He that will SWEAR will lie
• S1031 To live by the SWEAT of one's brows
• S1032 To live by the SWEAT of other men's brows
• S1033 He never SWEAT for what he has
• S1034 To go into SWEATLAND, or into Cornelius' tub
• S1035 He deserves not the SWEET that will not taste of the sour
• S1036 No SWEET without some sweat
• S1037 SWEET appears sour when we pay
• S1038 Take (Mingle) the SWEET with the sour
• S1039 SWEETHEART and bag pudding
• S1040 SWEETHEART and honey bird keeps no house
• S1041 Good SWIMMERS at length are drowned
• S1042 As drunk as a SWINE (sow, David's sow)
• S1043 A SWINE overfat is cause of his own bane
• S1044 SWINE, women, and bees cannot be turned
• S1045 To have one's full SWING
• S1046 SWITCH and spur
• S1047 He that strikes with the SWORD shall be beaten (stricken) with the scabbard
• S1048 A leaden (wooden) SWORD (dagger) in an ivory (golden, painted) sheath (scabbard)
• S1049 One SWORD keeps another in the sheath (scabbard)
• S1050 Put not a SWORD in the hand of a child
• S1051 The rusty SWORD and empty purse plead performance of covenants
• S1052 The SWORD is tried on the anvil
• S1053 There is no SWORD made of steel but has iron
• S1054 To slay (cut one's throat) with a leaden SWORD
• S1055 Who draws his SWORD against his prince must throw away the scabbard
• S1056 SYMPATHY (Similitude) of manners makes the conjunction of minds