Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. （1006）
Riches are the root of all evil. （1010）
Riches bring care and fear. （1022）
Riches do not always bring happiness. （1001）
Riches either serve or govern the possessor. （1013）
Riches have wings. （1024）
Riches serve a wise man but command a fool. （1014）
Roll my log and I’ll roll yours. （2106）
Rome was not built in a day. （808）
Sadness and gladness succeed each other. （425）
Satan reproves sin. （2107）
Save money against a rainy day. （872）
Save something for the man that rides on the white horse. （862）
Saving is getting. （844）
Say well is good, but do well is better. （592）
Saying and doing are two things. （657）
Saying is one thing and doing another. （658）
Scanderbeg’s sword must have Scanderbeg’s arm. （795）
Science has no enemy but the ignorant. （557）
Science is organized knowledge. （556）
Second thoughts are best. （613）
Seeing is believing. （2108）
Seize the present day, trusting the morrow as little as may be. （56）
Seize time by the forelock. （76）
Self do, self have. （2109）
Self-trust is the essence of heroism. （963）
Self trust is the first secret of success. （392）
Sell the bear’s skin before one has caught the bear. （2110）
Shallow streams make most din. （487）
Short accounts make long friends. （1863）
Short acquaintance brings repentance. （1923）
Short pleasure, long lament. （428）
Show me a liar, and I will show you a thief. （1628）
Sickness is felt, but health not at all. （1081）
Sickness shows us what we are. （1087）
Silence does seldom harm. （1394）
Silence gives [means] consent. （1391）
Silence is golden, but speech is silver [silvern]. （1389）
Silence is sometimes the severest criticism. （1392）
Silence is the best ornament of a woman. （1398）
Silly [=Good] child is soon ylered [=taught]. （289）
Six feet of earth makes all men equal. （1150）
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. （2111）
Skill is no burden. （562）
Sloth is the key of [to] poverty. （1481）
Sloth turneth the edge of wit. （1484）
Slow and steady wins the race. （2112）
Small gains bring great wealth. （867）
Soft fire makes sweet malt. （2113）
Soft words are hard arguments. （668）
So many countries, so many customs. （573）
So many men, so many minds.（466）
Something is better than nothing. （457）
Sometimes gain is to lose. （1220）
Sometimes words hurt more than swords. （688）
Soon learnt, soon forgotten. （370）
Sooner or later, the truth comes to light. （498）
Soon ripe, soon rotten. （446）
Sorrow comes unsent for. （2114）
Sound love is not soon forgotten. （150）
Spare the rod and spoil the child. （294）
Spare when you’re young, and spend when you’re old. （863）
Sparing is a great revenue. （860）
Speak [Talk] of the devil and he will appear. （2115）
Speak without thinking is shooting without aiming. （599）
Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim. （600）
Speech is silver [silvern], (but) silence is gold [golden]. （1388）
Speech is the index of the mind. （639）
Speech is the picture of the mind. （640）
Speech shows what a man is. （641）
Spend not where you may save; spare not where you must spend. （871）
Sport is sweetest when there be no spectators. （2116）
Step by step the ladder is ascended. （809）
Still waters run deep. （1397）
Stolen pleasures are sweet [sweetest]. （429）
Stolen waters are sweet. （430）
Stone dead [Stone-dead] has no fellow. （1160）
Straws show which way the wind blows. （1642）
Stretch your arm no farther than your sleeve will reach. （869）
Strike the iron while it is hot. （78）
Strike while the iron is hot. （77）
Study sickness while you are well. （1077）
Success belongs to the persevering. （388）
Successful crime is called virtue. （401）
Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan. （396）
Success has many friends. （397）
Success is never blamed. （393）
Table friendship soon changes. （1885）
Take a hair of the dog that bit you. （1533）
Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves. （853）
Take honour from me and my life is done. （944）
Take time when time cometh, lest time steal away. （72）
Talking mends no holes. （651）
Talk much, and err much. （670）
Talk of the evil, and he is sure to appear. （2117）
Teaching others teaches yourself. （357）
Teach your grandmother to suck eggs. （1566）
Temperance is the best physic. （1097）
That’s good wisdom which is wisdom in the end. （931）
That trial is not fair where affection is the judge. （726）
That which is evil is soon learnt. （1502）
The belly is not filled with fair words. （666）
The best [greatest] fish keep [swim near] the bottom. （1399）
The best fish smell when they are three days old. （2118）
The best go first. （1165）
The best hearts are always the bravest. （779）
The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching. （1743）
The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good. （2119）
The best man stumbles. （1293）
The best mirror is an old friend. （1851）
The best of friends must part. （1922）
The best of us can make mistakes. （1294）
The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman. （1095）
The best workman sometimes blunders. （1298）
The bird loves her nest. （1653）
The bird that can sing and won’t sing must be made to sing. （1655）
The black ox has trod on his foot. （1727）
The boast of arrogance soon turns to shame. （1564）
The braying of an ass does not reach heaven. （1750）
The burnt child fears the fire. （1332）
The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. （209）
The cat and dog may kiss, yet are none the better friends. （1765）
The chief aim of man is not to get money. （997）
The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day. （287）
The child is father of the man. （286）
The coat [garment, tailor] makes the man. （1428）
The course of true love never did run smooth. （149）
The cow knows not what her tail is worth until she has lost it. （1720）
The cow that’s first up gets the first of the dew. （1716）
The crow thinks his own bird fairest. （1676）
The cuckoo comes in April, and stays the month of May; sings a song at Midsummer, and then goes away. （1667）
The dainties of the great are the tears of the poor. （1200）
The darkest hour is that before the dawn. （470）
The day is short but the work is much. （44）
The dead don’t bite.（1158）
The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep. （1822）
The dog that has been beaten with a stick is afraid of its shadow. （1339）
The dust raised by the sheep does not choke the wolf. （1706）
The end crowns all. （2120）
The end justifies [sanctifies] the means. （2121）
The end makes all equal. （1152）
The evil [evils] we bring on ourselves are the hardest to bear. （1531）
The evil wound is cured but not the evil name. （1523）
The excellence of a wife consists not in her beauty, but in her virtue. （230）
The face is no index to the heart. （1425）
The face is no index of heart [mind]. （1431）
The father buys, the son bigs, the grandchild sells, and his son thigs. （280）
The fault of the ass must not be laid upon the packsaddle. （1751）
The fault of the horse is put on the saddle. （1740）
The fire is the test of gold; adversity of strong man. （784）
The first blow is half the battle. （385）
The first step to virtue is to abstain from vice. （775）
The first wealth is health. （1062）
The follies of youth are food for repentance in old age. （1600）
The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet until the bird is caught. （1660）
The fox is known by his brush. （1815）
The fox may grow grey, but never good. （1803）
The fox smells his own stink first. （1812）
The fox’s wiles will never enter the lion’s head. （1809）
The fox that had lost its tail would persuade others out of theirs. （1816）
The friend is known in the time of difficulty. （1858）
The good or ill hap of a good or ill wife. （211）
The good seaman is known in bad weather. （786）
The greater the crime, the higher the gallows. （712）
The greatest hate springs from the greatest love. （164）
The greatest liars talk most of themselves. （1626）
The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none. （1291）
The greatest talkers are always the least doers. （673）
The great fish eat up the small. （733）
The ground-work of all happiness is health. （1061）
The habit [cowl, hood] does not make the monk. （1414）
The handsomest flower is not the sweetest. （1434）
The head is recognized by the tongue. （642）
The healthful man can give counsel to the sick. （1076）
The heart that once truly loves never forgets. （148）
The honest penny is better than the stolen dollar. （833）
The joy of the heart makes the face merry. （409）
The kettle calls the pot black. （1286）
The last drop makes the cup run over. （485）
The law is not the same at morning and at night. （705）
The least said the better. （604）
The least said, the soonest mended. （1395）
The leopard can never change its spots. （1831）
The life of the wolf is the death of the lamb. （1707）
The lion is known by his claws [paws]. （1836）
The lion is not so fierce as he is painted. （1839）
The lion’s skin is never cheap. （1837）
The living man who does not learn is dark, dark like one walking in the night. （367）
The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf. （1819）
The longest day must have an end. （1375）
The longest pole knocks the most persimmons. （735）
The love that is too violent will not last long. （127）
The maintaining of one vice costs more than ten virtues. （1518）
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. （1274）
The mill cannot grind with the water that is past. （71）
The mills of God grind slowly. （710）
The money the miser hoards will do him no good. （996）
The more noble the more humble. （838）
The more riches a fool hath, the greater fool he is. （1583）
The more women look in their glass, the less they look to their house. （235）
The morning sun never lasts a day. （5）
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. （840）
The mother’s breath is aye sweet. （266）
The mountains have brought forth a mouse. （1755）
The noisy fowler catches no bird. （1661）
The old goose plays not with foxes. （1808）
The outsider sees the best of the game. （2122）
The ox is never woe, till he to the harrow go. （1717）
The ox when weariest treads surest. （1719）
The path to glory is always rugged. （782）
The poor man wants much, the miser everything. （1195）
The pot calls the kettle black. （1285）
The proof of the pudding is in the eating. （669）
The rage of a wild boar is able to spoil more than one wood. （1842）
There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it. （1236）
There are faults from which none of us is [are] free. （1284）
There are no birds of this year in last year’s nests. （57）
There are spots (even) in [on] the sun. （1261）
There are two sides to every question. （478）
There is a black sheep in every flock. （1714）
There is a crook [an affliction, a trial] in the lot of every one. （1382）
There is always something to be cut off young trees if they are to grow well. （300）
There is a skeleton in every house. （251）
There is a skeleton in the cupboard. （252）
There is a tide in the affairs of men. （60）
There is a time for all things. （67）
There is a time for everything. （68）
There is a time to speak and a time to be silent. （1390）
There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. （507）
There is great difference between word and deed. （597）
There is many a fair thing full false. （1630）
There is many a true word spoken in jest. （633）
There is more danger from a pretended friend than from an enemy. （1915）
There is no accounting for tastes. （2123）
There is no better looking-glass than an old friend. （1852）
There is no end to learning. （361）
There is no escape [flying] from fate. （1369）
There is no fool like an old fool. （1601）
There is no fool to the old fool. （1602）
There is no friend so faithful as a good book. （517）
There is no greater riches than health. （1064）
There is no joy without alloy. （424）
There is no man but errs. （1257）
There is no man but has his faults. （1258）
There is no man without faults. （1259）
There is no medicine against death. （1129）
There is no place like home. （244）
There is no pleasure without pain. （422）
There is no pot so ugly that it can’t find a lid. （225）
There is no royal road to learning. （360）
There is no rule without an exception. （2124）
There is no satiety in study. （362）
There is no smoke without fire. （475）
There is nothing permanent except change. （460）
There is no time like the present. （22）
There is no time to lose. （63）
There is no trusting to appearance. （1418）
There is no virtue that poverty destroyeth not. （776）
There is no wealth above the wealth of health. （1063）
There is no wheat without chaff. （456）
There is small choice in rotten apples. （2125）
There needs a long apprenticeship to understand the mystery of the world’s trade.（1036）
The reward of suffering is experience. （1326）
The rich never want for kindred. （985）
The rotten apple injures its neighbours. （2126）
The scalded cat fears cold water. （1336）
The scalded dog fears cold water. （1337）
The sea has fish for every man. （59）
The secret of success is constancy of purpose. （389）
The secret of wealth lieth in the letters SAVE. （848）
The shortest answer is doing the thing. （324）
The sleeping fox catches no poultry. （1804）
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. （1565）
The snail slides up the tower at last though the swallow mounteth it sooner. （1666）
The swan sings when death comes. （1693）
