Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Seek not the rose which is once lost.
Seek not to be consoled but to console.
Seek strength, not to be greater than my
brother, but to fight my greatest enemy --
myself.
Seek that which may be found.
Seek the brave in prison and the stupid
among the clergy.
Seek to get.
Seek truth in meditation, not in moldy
books. Look in the sky to find the moon,
not in the pond.
Seek wisdom like a beggar.
Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is
of the past, Wisdom is of the future.
Seek your sauce where you get your Ale.
Seekers of art; finders of the beggar's bag.
Seeking fish? Don't dive in the pond; go
home and get a net.
Seil comes not while sorrow be gone.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald
behind.
Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is
bald behind.
Sel, sel, has half-filled hell.
Seldom lies the Devil dead by the dike side.
Seldom rides, tynes the spurres.
Seldom seen, soon forgotten.
Self -- love is the worst of all flattery.
Self do, self ha.
Self do, self have.
Self exaltation is the fool's paradise.
Self is the man.
Self Praise is no praise.
Self praise is odious.
Self-assurance is two-thirds of success.
Self-conceit made one soak nsima.
Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.
Self-done, is soon done.
Self-help is the best help.
Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-
improvement.
Self-love is a mote in every man's eye.
Self-love is bad, and makes the eyes sad.
Self-love is blind.
Self-love nobody else's love.
Self-praise amounts to self-condemnation.
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Self-praise is like chewing cotton wool.
Self-praise is nae honour.
Self-praise is no praise at all.
Self-praise is no recommendation.
Self-praise smells bad.
Self-praise stinks, friends praise hinks, the
stranger's is sincere, and may last for a
year.
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Sell beets/apples as lemons.
Sell high and give a fair measure.
Sell me dear, and measure me fair.
Sell not the bear's skin before you have
caught him.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.
Sell publicly and buy privately.
Sell what you have bought while the dust is
still on your shoes.
Send a boy where he wants to go and you
see his best pace.
Send a child to do your errands, go do them
yourself afterwards.
Send a fool to close the shutters and he'll
close them all over town.
Send a fool to the market, and a fool he'll
return.
Send a man of sense on the embassy, and
you need not instruct him.
Send a wise man and don't advise him.
Send charcoal in a snow storm.
Send him to the sea and he will not get
water.
Send your charity abroad wrapped in
blankets.
Send, and fetch.
Sending charcoal in the snow is better than
adding flowers to a brocade.
Sending the goose on a message to the fox's
den.
Sensa fowl no wan fedder, but him want
carn.
Sense comes with age.
Sense doesn't come before age.
Separation secures manifest friendship.