Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
So lovers, to their fair one fondly blind, E'en
on her ugliness with transport gaze.
So many countries, so many customs.
So many heads, so many minds.
So many houses, so many customs.
So many in the jail while innocent.
So many mates; so many enemies.
So many men, so many minds.
So many men, so many opinions.
So many mists in March, so many frosts in
May.
So many servants, so many enemies.
So many years playing the marquise and she
still doesn't know how to wave a fan.
So money gets money.
'so near and yet so far,' said the man when
the bird lit on his gun.
So not roast all your corn in the winter.
So shall she charm that thou shalt not heed
the council, or words of the king.
So the man, so his shadow.
So wise, so young, they say, do ne'er live
long.
So you tell me there are wolves on the
mountain, and foxes in the valley.
So yourself be good, a fig for your
grandfather.
Soap does not wash itself.
Soap is grey but it used to be white.
Society is like a pot it can't carry water when
its broken.
Sodom apples outwardly fair, ashes at the
core.
Soft and fair goes far.
Soft fire makes sweet malt.
Soft pace goes far.
Soft speeches injure not the mouth of the
speaker.
Soft water constantly striking the hard
stone, wears it at last.
Soft water on hard rock, beats so much that
it perforates it.
Soft words and hard arguments.
Soft words break no bones.
Soft words butter no parsnips, but they
won't harden the heart of the cabbage
either.
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Soft words butter no turnips.
Soft words don't scotch the tongue.
Soft words scald not the tongue.
Soft words win hard hearts.
Softly, barber, the water scalds.
Softly, don't raise a dust.
Softly, softly, catchee monkey.
Sokeing sale is best.
Soldiers don't cry.
Soldiers must be well paid, and well
hanged.
Solid learning makes a man fit company for
himself.
Solitude is enjoyed only when one is at
peace with oneself.
Solitude is full of God.
Solitude is the nurse of wisdom.
Solve one problem, and you keep a hundred
others away.
Solved riddles look easy.
Somalis don't say a false proverb.
Some are born to honor, and some have
honor thrust upon them.
Some are very busy and yet do nothing.
Some bad things come for good.
Some birds are not meant to be caged there
feathers are to blight and there meant to
fly.
Some birds avoid the water, ducks look for
it.
Some birds avoid the water, ducks seek it.
Some cannot do two things at once.
Some cut lang whangs aff ither folk's
leather.
Some day Peter will command as much as
his master.
Some die; others bloom.
Some evils are cured by contempt.
Some families are like potatoes -- all that's
good of them is underground.
Some fathers love another man's daughter
most.
Some folk look up, and ithers look down.
Some folks speak from experience; others,
from experience, don't speak.