Shoemaker, stick to your last. [ Pliny ]

Let the cobbler stick to his last. [ Pliny ]

To lick honey through a cleft stick. [ Proverb ]

I will stick in your skirts for this. [ Proverb ]

A straight stick is crooked in the water. [ Proverb ]

He has got the fiddle, but not the stick. [ Proverb ]

There is no argument like that of a stick. [ Spanish Proverb ]

On some men's bread butter will not stick. [ Proverb ]

A crooked stick will have a crooked shadow. [ Proverb ]

I gave you a stick to break my own head with. [ Proverb ]

Gold thou may'st safely touch; but if it stick
Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick. [ Herbert ]

It is an easy thing to find a stick to beat a dog. [ Proverb ]

Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Ill natures, the more you ask them, the more they stick. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A cough will stick longer by a horse than a peck of oats. [ Proverb ]

A good pinch and a rap with a stick is a clown's compliment. [ Proverb ]

If the ball does not stick to the wall, yet it will leave some mark. [ Proverb ]

Error will slip through a crack, while truth will stick in a doorway. [ H. W. Shaw ]

I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me. [ Pope ]

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. [ Haliburton ]

What avails it me, to draw one foot out of the mire, and stick the other in? [ Proverb ]

Take a stick to a Highland laddie, and it's no him you hurt, but his ancestors. [ J. M. Barrie ]

Good things have to be engraved on the memory; bad ones stick there of themselves. [ Charles Reade ]

Mend your clothes and you may hold out this year." Press a stick and it seems a youth. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Thoughts perhaps, which, like fieldmice of the soul, leap under the feet and stick like adders. [ Richter ]

Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Scandals are like dandelion seeds - they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold. [ Ouida ]

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature; the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick. [ Sheridan ]

Gentlemen use books as gentlewomen handle their flowers, who in the morning stick them in their heads, and at night strawe them at their heeles. [ Lyly ]

Stick to your aim; the mongrel's hold will slip. But only crow-bars loose the bull-dog's lip; Small as he looks, the jaw that never yields, Drags down the bellowing monarch of the fields. [ O. W. Holmes ]

If a crooked stick is before you, you need not explain how crooked it is. Lay a straight one down by the side of it, and the work is well done. Preach the truth, and error will stand abashed in its presence. [ Spurgeon ]

Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies' wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn-door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas. [ Samuel Smiles ]

If all fools had baubles* we should want fuel. (*The fool or jester carried in his hand a wooden sceptre called a bauble. It was a short stick ornamented at the end with the figure of a fool's head, or with that of a puppet or doll. Jesters were still retained in Herbert's day.) [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

In the hands of genius, the driest stick becomes an Aaron's rod, and buds and blossoms out in poetry. Is he a Burns? the sight of a mountain daisy unseals the fountains of his nature, and he embalms the bonny gem in the beauty of his spirit. Is he a Wordsworth? at his touch all nature is instinct with feeling; the spirit of beauty springs up in the footsteps of his going, and the darkest, nakedest grave becomes a sunlit bank empurpled with blossoms of life. [ H. N. Hudson ]