A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

The SHARPER the storm, the sooner it’s over
Cf. SENECA Natural Questions VII. ix. procellae, quanto plus habent virium, tanto minus temporis, the harder storms are, the shorter they last.

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  1872 F. KILVERT Diary 9 June (1977) II. 207 Mrs. Vaughan will have a good family soon. Her children come fast. But the harder the storm the sooner ‘tis over. 1913 Folk-Lore XXIV. 76 The sharper the storm, the sooner it’s over. 2002 Washington Post 11 Feb. C13 (One Big Happy comic strip)’.. She’ll be very, very angry!’ ‘I know, but the sharper the storm, the sooner it’s over.’ ‘I’m about to be killed, and you’re giving me weather reports?!’ "weather lore
  

sheep see BETTER to live one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep; a BLEATING sheep loses a bite; one might as well be HANGED for a sheep as a lamb.
shepherd see RED sky at night shepherd’s delight.
You cannot SHIFT an old tree without it dying

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  c 1518 A. BARCLAY tr. Mancinus’ Mirror of Good Manners G4^V An old tre transposed shall fynde smal auauntage. 1670 J. RAY English Proverbs 22 Remove an old tree, and it will wither to death. 1721 J. KELLY Scottish Proverbs 284 Remove an old Tree, and it will wither. Spoken by a Man who is loth to leave a Place in his advanc’d years, in which he has long lived. 1831 W. M. PRAED Political & Occasional Poems (1888) 166 I’m near three-score; you ought to know You can’t transplant so old a tree. 1906 R. KIPLING Puck of Pook’s Hill 259 ‘You’ve cleaved to your own parts pretty middlin’ close, Ralph.’ ‘Can’t shift an old tree ‘thout it dyin’.’ "habit; old age
  

shine see happy is the BRIDE that the sunshines on; MAKE hay while the sun shines.
shining see the SUN loses nothing by shining into a puddle.