Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Sister Nicola said: Don't put the pasta basket
in the water until it's boiling.
Sit a beggar at your table and he will soon
put his feet on it.
Sit and wait for the good chestnuts.
Sit atop the mountain and watch the tigers
fight.
Sit on the bank of a river and wait: Your
enemy's corpse will soon float by.
Sit where you are welcomed and helped,
and don't sit where you are not
welcomed.
Sit, sit, daughter, sit, because good fortune is
coming.
Sit, walk, or run, but don't wobble.
Sitting down beside the boxes.
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes
and the grass grows by itself.
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes,
and the grass grows by itself.
Sitting securely in the saddle.
Sitting with the hands in the hair.
Six feet of earth makes all men equal.
Six feet of earth will make us all equal.
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 men give a doctor less to do than one
woman.
Six of one, and half a dozen of the other.
Six things have no business in the world: a
fighting priest, a coward knight, a
covetous judge, a stinking barber, a soft-
hearted mother, and an itchy baker.
Skeptics are never deceived.
Skill and assurance make an invincible
combination.
Skill is not a heavy load to carry.
Skill is only a rumour, until it reaches the
muscle.
Skill is stronger than strength.
Skill or fortune will efface the spots.
Skill will enable us to succeed in that which
sheer force could not accomplish.
Skilled hands eat trouts.
Slander by the stream will be heard by the
505
frogs.
Slander cannot destroy an honest man:
when the flood recedes the rock is there.
Slander expires at a good woman's door.
Slander is more deadly than weapons;
weapons wound from close range,
slander hurts from a distance.
Slander leaves a score behind it.
Slander makes friends part.
Slander not the dead.
Slander piles itself before the door of a
widow.
Slander slays three persons: the speaker, the
spoken to, and the spoken of.
Slander! slander! some of it always sticks.
Slanderers are the devil's bellows, to blow
up contention.
Slashing isn't digging nor is digging called
sowing.
Slaughter no more than you can well salt.
Slaw at meat slaw at wark.
Sleep after selling horses and elephants.
Sleep and indolence are not cousins of a
good harvest.
Sleep and wait for good luck.
Sleep can interfere.
Sleep faster -- we need the pillows.
Sleep has no master.
Sleep is all important.
Sleep is better than medicine.
Sleep is half of Health.
Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
Sleep is the brother of Death.
Sleep is the cousin of Death.
Sleep is the image of death.
Sleep is the poor man's treasure.
Sleep not in time of peril.
Sleep on a bed of silver and dream of gold.
Sleep over it, and you will come to a
resolution.
Sleep with a woman and she will make sure
you wake up.
Sleeping people can't fall down.
Sleeping shrimp gets taken by the current.
Sleepy turtles never catch up with the
sunrise.