Old Sayings : S

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)