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Search not too curiously lest you find trouble.Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.See a pin and lie it lie,
You'll want a pin before you die.
See a pin and pick it up,
All the day you'll have good luck.See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck; see a pin and let it lie, bad luck you'll have all day.See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.Seek and ye shall find.Seek till you find, and you'll not lose your labour.Seek your salve where you get your sore.Seldom comes a better.Self do, self have.Self exaltation is the fool's paradise.Self-preservation is the first law of nature.Sell not the bear's skin before you have caught him.Send a fool to the market and a fool he will return.September blow soft till the fruit's in the loft.Servants should put on patience when they put on a livery.Servants should see all and say nothing.Set a beggar on a horse and he'll ride to the devil.Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride to the Devil.Set a sprat to catch a mackerel.Set a stout heart to a stey brae.Shallow waters mak' maist din.Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided.Shameless craving must have shameful way.Share and share alike.She fries in her own grease.She is nether fish nor fowl.She stoops to conquer.She that is born a beauty is half married.Shear your sheep in May and shear them all away.Shit floats to the top.Shit rolls downhill.Shoot at a pigeon and kill a crow.Short and sweet.Short pleasure, long lament.Short reckonings are soon cleared.Short rede, good rede.Short shooting loseth the game.Show her the rudder, but don't steer her boat.Show me not the meat, but show me the man.Show me the man, and I'll show you the law.Shrouds have no pockets.Shut your mouth and you'll catch no flies.Sickness comes on horseback, but goes away on foot.Sickness is felt, but health not at all.Sickness tells us what we are.Silence is a fine jewel for a woman, but it is little worn.Silence is a woman's best garment.Silence is the best ornament of a woman.Silence is the voice of complicity.Silence is wisdom and gets a man friends.Silence means consent.Silence seldom doth harm.Silks and satins put our the kitchen fire.Silks and satins put out the kitchen fire.Sing before breakfast, cry before night.Sins are not known till they be acted.Sins of omission are seldom fun.Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.Six hours sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.Six of one, and half a dozen of the other.Six on one and half a dozen of the other.Slander leaves a scar behind it.Slander leaves a score behind it.Slanderers are the devil's bellows, to blow up contention.Sleep without supping and wake without owing.Sloth is the mother of poverty.Slow at meat, slow at work.Slow but sure.Slow help is no help.Sluts are good enough to make slovens' pottage.Sma' winnings mak a heavy purse.Small birds must have meat.Small choice in rotten apples.Small faults indulged in are little thieves that let in greater.Small invitation will serve a beggar.Small is beautiful.Small minds discuss persons. Average minds discuss events. Great minds discuss ideas.Small pitchers have wide ears.Small profits and quick returns.Small rain lays great dust.Smooth words make smooth ways.Snapping curs never want sore ears.Sneeze on a Monday, you sneeze for danger;
Sneeze on a Tuesday, you kiss a stranger;
Sneeze on a Wednesday, you sneeze for a letter;
Sneeze on a Thursday, for something better;
Sneeze on a Friday, you sneeze for sorrow;
Sneeze on a Saturday, see you sweetheart to-morrow;
Sneeze of a Sunday, your safety seek,
The Devil will have you the whole of the week.So lovers, to their fair one fondly blind,
E'en on her ugliness with transport gaze.So many mists in March, so many frosts in May.So wise, so young, they say, do ne'er live long.So yourself be good, a fig for your grandfather.Soft and fair goes far.Soft words and hard arguments.Soft words scald not the tongue.Softly, softly, catchee monkey.Solitude is the nurse of wisdom.Some are wise and some are otherwise.Some crooketh the tree that good gambrel would be.Some go to law, for the wagging of a straw.Some have hap, some stick in the gap.Some men grow, others swell.Some men have only one book in them, others a library.Some people make things happen, some watch things happen, while others wonder what has happened.Some roads aren't meant to be travelled alone.Something is better than nothing.Sometimes it is better to give your apple away, than to eat it yourself.Somewhat is better than nothing.Soon crooks the tree
That good gambrel would be.Soon got, soon spent.Soon hot, soon cold.Soon learnt, soon forgotten.Sorrow and an evil life maketh soon as old wife.Sorrow and ill weather come unsent for.Sorrow is good for nothing but sin.Sound men wear out shoes, sick men sheets.Sour grapes will ne'er make sweet wine.Sow dry and set wet.Sow much, reap much; sow little, reap little.Sow with the hand, and not with the whole sack.Spare at the spigot, and let out the bunghole.Spare the rod and spoil the child.Spare the rod, spoil the child.Spare well and have to spend.Spare well and spend well.Spare when you're young, and spend when you're old.Sparing is the first gaining.Speak fair and think what you will.Speak fitly or be silent wisely.Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.Speak well of your friend, of your enemy say nothing.Speak when you are spoken to.Speak when you're spoken to; come when you're called.Speech is silver, but silence is golden.Speech is the picture of the mind.Speed the plough!Speedy execution is the mother of good fortune.Spend and be free, but make no waste.Spend and God will send.Spend not where you may save; spare not where you must spend.Spend not, where you may save; spare not, where you must spend.Spit in your hands and take better hold.Sport is sweetest when there be no spectators.Spring has come when you can put your foot on three daisies.Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.Spur not a free horse to death.St. Bartholomew brings the cold dew.St. Benedick, sow thy pease, or keep them in thy rick.St. Matthie sends say into the tree.St. Swithin's day, if thou dost rain,
For forty days it will remain;
St. Swithin's day, if thou be fair,
For forty days 'twill rain na mair.Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.Still he fisheth that catcheth one.Stir not dying embers.Stolen fruit is sweet.Stolen pleasures are sweetest.Stubborn as a mule.Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.Success is doing what you like and making a living at it.Success is never blamed.Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.Success makes a fool seem wise.Success or ruin.Such a beginning, such an end.Such as the man is, such will be his discourse.Such beginning, such end.Such welcome, such farewell.Sudden friendship, sure repentance.Sudden trust brings sudden repentance.Sue a beggar and catch a louse.Sue a beggar and get a louse.Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.Sunday's child is full of grace,
Monday's child is full in the face,
Tuesday's child is solemn and sad,
Wednesday's child is merry and glad,
Thursday's child is inclined to thieving,
Friday's child is free in giving,
Saturday's child work hard for its living.Surfeits slay mae than swords.Sussex won't be druv.Sweep before your own door.Sweet meat will have sour sauce.Sweetest wine makes sharpest vinegar.Sweetheart and Honeybird keeps no house.Swine, women and bees cannot be turned. |
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