Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Spreading other peoples secrets is like
spreading feathers. You cannot collect
them back.
Spring has come when you can put your
foot on three daisies.
Spring is in the air. The sap rises in the
spring.
Spring is sooner recognized by plants than
by men.
Spring is when you feel like whistling even
with a shoe full of slush.
Spring succeeds to winter.
Spring won't come from one flower.
Spur not a free horse to death.
Spur not a willing horse.
Spurs that are too sharp make even the mule
rear.
St. Francis shaved himself first, and then he
shaved his brethren.
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 no
more.
Stable the steed, and put your wife to bed
when there's night wark to do.
Stagnant water grows stinking.
Stagnant waters putrefy.
Stairs are climbed step by step.
Stand away from a horse's heels.
Stand away from dwarfs, for it's God who
hit them on the head.
Stand by your own whether right or wrong.
Stand so much until grass grows under your
foot.
Stand up, cent, let the dollar sit down.
Stand up, farthing, let the florin sit down.
Standers-by see more than gamesters.
Standing pools gather filth.
Standing with the mouth full of teeth.
Starlings are lean because they go in flocks.
Starlings are skinny because they fly in a
group.
Stars are not seen by sunshine.
Stars are not seen where the sun shines.
Start early before the floods come.
Start walking, and eventually you'll find
what you need-- even if it's not what you
513
want.
Starting early is better than seeking a medi-
cine man later.
Starting is always difficult, but every desire
is attainable.
Starting the work is two thirds of it.
Starve a fever, feed a cold.
Starved lice bite the hardest.
State what has caused the monkey orange to
fall and break the elephant’s tusk.
Staunin' dubs gather dirt.
Stay a while, and lose a mile.
Stay where there are songs.
Stay within your level of competence.
Staying near the anthill turned the antelope
brown.
Steal a bell with one's ears covered.
Steal beams and replace them with poles.
Steal goods and you'll go to prison, steal
lands and you are a king.
Stealing may bring profit, but hanging costs
far more.
Stealing would be a nice thing, if thieves
were hanged by the girdle.
Steel whets steel.
Steer one's boat where the winds lead.
Step after step the ladder is ascended.
Step by step climbs the hill.
Step by step one goes far.
Step by step one goes to Rome.
Step by step one goes very far.
Step on a crack break your mother's back.
Stick the needle into yourself before you
thrust needles into others.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but
names will break my spirit.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but
words will never hurt me.
Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.
Still achieving, still pursuing.
Still he fisheth that catcheth one.
Still water breeds vermin.
Still water runs deep.
Still water undermines the bank.
Still waters are deep.