A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

sweet see also LITTLE fish are sweet; REVENGE is sweet; STOLEN fruit is sweet; STOLEN waters are sweet.
sweeter see the NEARER the bone, the sweeter the meat.
From the SWEETEST wine, the tartest vinegar

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  1578 LYLY Euphues I. 197 As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinaigar, so the deepest loue tourneth to the deadliest hate. 1637 J. HOWELL Familiar Letters 3 Feb. (1903) II. 140 He swears he had rather see a basilisk than her [his former love]. The sweetest wines may turn to the tartest vinegar. 1852 E. FITZGERALD Polonius 9 ‘It is.. the sweetest wine that makes the sharpest vinegar,’ says an old proverb. 1979 Daedalus Summer 121 The juxtaposition silently signals the cautionary maxim ‘From the sweetest wine, the tartest vinegar’. ■ opposites
  

sweetness see the KUMARA does not speak of its own sweetness.
swift see the RACE is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
swim see don’t go near the WATER until you learn how to swim.
swine see do not throw PEARLS to swine; on SAINT Thomas the Divine kill all turkeys, geese, and swine.
swing see what you LOSE on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.
Swithun see SAINT Swithun’s day if thou be fair for forty days it will remain.
sword see whosoever DRAWS his sword against the prince must throw the scabbard away; he who LIVES by the sword dies by the sword; the PEN is mightier than the sword.
table see where MACGREGOR sits is the head of the table.
tail see every HERRING must hang by its own gill; the HIGHER the monkey climbs the more he shows his tail; it is idle to SWALLOW the cow and choke on the tail.
tailor see NINE tailors make a man.
TAKE the goods the gods provide
Cf. PLAUTUS Rudens 1.1229 habeas quod di dant boni, you may keep what good the gods give.

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