Short hose must have long points, [193]

Short pleasure often brings long repentance, [399]

Short reckonings make long friends, [34], [157], [273], [317]

Should the heavens fall, many pipkins will be broken, [367]

Show me a liar and I’ll show you a thief, [39], [190], [344]

Show me a poor man, I will show you a flatterer, [273]

Shut your door, and you will make your neighbour good (or a good woman), [208], [272]

Sickly body, sickly mind, [157]

Sickness comes in haste, and goes at leisure, [399]

Sickness comes on horseback and departs on foot, [308]