Great Throughts Treasury

"Friends tie their purse with a cobweb thread."

"Gaming, women and wine, while they laugh, they make men pine."

"From word to deed is a great space."

"From a bad paymaster get what you can."

"Gentle is that gentle does."

"From the same wood you can make a cross or a club."

"Full of courtesy, full of craft."

"Gifts blind the eyes."

"Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand."

"Give a man luck and cast him into the sea."

"Give him an inch, and he'll take an ell."

"Giving much to the poor doth enrich a man's store."

"Gloves hide the ugliest hands."

"God defend me from my friends; from my enemies I can defend myself."

"Give the piper a penny to play and two pence to leave off."

"Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it."

"God gives the milk, but not the pail."

"God sends meat and the devil sends cooks."

"God helps those who help themselves."

"God hath leaden feet, but iron hands."

"God stays long, but strikes at last."

"God's mill grinds slow but sure."

"Good and quickly seldom meet."

"Gold is tried in the fire."

"Good broth may be made in an old pot."

"Good land, evil way."

"Good things come to some when they are asleep."

"Good is good, but better carries it."

"Good ware makes quick markets."

"Good to begin well, better to end well."

"Good watch prevents misfortune."

"Good words fill not a sack."

"Good words cool more than cold water."

"Good wine needs no bush."

"Grain by grain, and the hen fills her belly."

"Goose and gander and gosling are three sounds but one thing."

"Goslings lead the geese to water."

"Good words anoint us, and ill do unjoint us."

"Great promises and small performances."

"Great talkers are great liars."

"Half a word is enough for a wise man."

"Hand play, churls' play."

"Hard is for any man all faults to mend."

"Great birth is a very poor dish at table."

"Great boast and small roast makes unsavory mouths."

"Grass grows not upon the highway."

"Great braggers, little doers."

"Great honors are great burdens."

"Hard with hard makes not the stone wall."

"Hares may pull dead lions by the beard."