Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Great look but bad breath.
Great lords have long hands, but they do
not reach to heaven.
Great lords will have much, and poor folk
can give but little.
Great mansions have slippery doors.
Great men are not always wise.
Great men do not seek power; it thrust upon
them.
Great men may just with saints.
Great men think alike.
Great men's requests are commands.
Great men's servants don't think little of
themselves.
Great men's vices are accounted sacred.
Great minds discuss ideas, medium minds
discuss events, and little minds discuss
people.
Great minds think alike
Great minds think alike, fools never differ.
Great minds think alike.
Great needs grow from great possessions.
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
Great people give it with reproaches.
Great profits, great risk.
Great promisers, bad paymasters.
Great promises and small performances.
Great say-masters, bad pay-masters.
Great scholars are not the shrewdest men.
Great smoke, little roast.
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only
wishes.
Great speakers are usually liars.
Great Spirit, grant that I may not criticize
my neighbor until I have walked a mile
in his moccasins.
Great talents mature late.
Great talk and little action.
Great talker, great liar.
Great talkers are commonly liars.
Great talkers are great liars.
Great talkers are little doers.
Great talkers are not great doers.
Great talkers, little doers.
Great thieves always have their sleeves full
of gags.
Great thieves hang little thieves.
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Great thieves punish little ones.
Great things are done more through courage
than through wisdom.
Great things can be reduced to small things,
and small things can be reduced to
nothing.
Great things can best be said in silence.
Great things often come from small
beginnings.
Great trees are envied by the wind.
Great trees give more shade than fruit.
Great trees keep little ones down.
Great villainy is often called loyalty.
Great wealth is a gift from heaven; moderate
wealth results from frugality.
Great wealth, great care.
Great weights may hang on small wires.
Great wit drives away wisdom.
Great wits meet.
Greater fools than they of Zago, who
dunged the steeple to make it grow.
Greater power is shown, not in controlling
others, but in controlling oneself.
Greater qualities are needed to bear good
fortune than bad.
Greatness alone in not enough, or the cow
would outrun the hare.
Greatness and beauty do not belong to the
gods alone.
Greatness is not achieved with violence.
Greed and envy are good neighbors.
Greed is envy's auldest brither: scraggy
wark they mak thegither.
Greed is eternal.
Greed keeps men forever poor, even the
abundance of this world will not make
them rich.
Greed lessens what is gathered.
Greed loses what it has gained.
Greed will cause pain.
Greedy eaters dig their graves with their
teeth.
Greedy fowk hae long arms.
Greedy greedy, give the hog some. Why, the
hog does wuk?