Starlings are lean because they go in flocks, [100]

Starved lice bite the hardest, [332]

Stay a while, and lose a mile, [338]

Stealing would be a nice thing, if thieves were hanged by the girdle, [218]

Step by step one goes far (or to Rome), [118], [297], [341]

Still water breeds vermin, [67]

Still waters run deep, [170], [338], [363]

Stock-fish are made tender by much beating, [334]

Stolen bread stirs the appetite, [44]

Stones or bread, one must have something in hand for the dogs, [118]