A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

sit see also where MACGREGOR sits is the head of the table.
It is ill SITTING at Rome and striving with the Pope

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  a 1628 J. CARMICHAELL Proverbs in Scots no. 1847 Ye may not sit in Rome and strive with the Pape. 1721 J. KELLY Scottish Proverbs 194 It is hard to sit in Rome, and strive against the Pope. It is foolish to strive with our Governours, Landlords, or those under whose Distress we are. 1908 A. MACLAREN Ezekiel 58 ‘It is ill sitting at Rome and striving with the Pope.’ Nebuchadnezzar’s palace was not precisely the place to dispute with Nebuchadnezzar. ■ conduct; prudence
  

sitting see also it is as CHEAP sitting as standing.
situation see DESPERATE diseases must have desperate remedies.
SIX hours’ sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool

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  1623 J. WODROEPHE Spared Hours of Soldier 310 The Student sleepes six Howres, the Traueller seuen; the Workeman eight, and all Laizie Bodies sleepe nine houres and more. 1864 J. H. FRISWELL Gentle Life 259 John Wesley.. considered that five hours’ sleep was enough for him or any man. .. The old English proverb, so often in the mouth of George III, was ‘six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool’. 1908 Spectator 19 Dec. 1047 Is there not a proverb that a man requires six hours’ sleep, a woman seven, a child eight and only a fool more? If this be true, thousands of great men were, and are, fools. "health
  

size see ONE size does not fit all.
skin see (noun) NEAR is my shirt, but nearer is my skin; don’t SELL the skin till you have caught the bear; (verb) there is more than one WAY to skin a cat.
skin-deep see BEAUTY is only skin-deep.
skittle see LIFE isn’t all beer and skittles.