Great Throughts Treasury

"Freedom for the free and heaven for the saved."

"Friendship is friendship and service is service."

"Force a fool to pray and he'll crack his forehead."

"Friendship is friendship, but keep our tobacco (money) apart."

"Friendship is friendship, but money has to be counted."

"Friendship is one thing and business is another."

"Give him a fingernail, he will ask for forearm."

"Give your children too much freedom and lose your own"

"From fire to flame."

"Go Godward, you will find a road."

"Give the trough and the pigs will appear."

"God does not give to cow that butts. (Example: Angry men cannot do the mischief they wish)"

"God does not give horns to a cow that likes to gore."

"God gives to those who get up early."

"God gives to those who get up early. (The person who gets up early to work will be successful; those that arrive early at a place have the advantage over the latecomers)"

"God gave, God took back."

"God keeps those safe who keep themselves safe."

"God helps those who help themselves."

"God takes care of the one who takes care of himself. (What appears to be cowardice may be wise caution, and what appears to be valor may be foolish rashness; so unnecessary risks should not be run)"

"God wanted to chastise mankind, so he sent lawyers"

"God likes trinity."

"Good brotherhood is the best wealth."

"Gossip needs no carriage."

"Good deeds travel far; bad ones farther."

"Habit is a second nature."

"Hands wash each other, a thief covers another thief."

"Granny (told fortunes and) said two things (— it will either rain or snow; it either will or will not)."

"Grey hair into beard, devil into rib."

"Having a good wife and rich cabbage soup, seek not other things"

"Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it"

"He can cheat a fish of its skin."

"He is brave when fighting against sheep, and when fighting against a brave man he's a sheep himself."

"He makes the bed soft, yet it's hard to sleep on."

"He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good."

"He took the devil's mat, but he'll pay back with his skin."

"He who brings up something from the past should have his eye put out."

"He who does not risk, will never drink champagne."

"He would exclaim Ah looking at himself. (People are inclined to shut their eyes to their own sins and vices.)"

"He who plants a hedge around his garden invites it to be jumped."

"He who seeks a constant friend goes to the cemetery."

"His word is as good as a tied knot."

"Heaven has many cracks through which God can see."

"Honest work won't let you live on the stone palace."

"Holy place is never empty."

"Horseradish isn't any sweeter than radish."

"How echo is prompted, it will bounce back."

"Hope for God, but do not be reliant."

"However much, well you feed the wolf he still looks at the woods."

"Hurry is only good for catching flies."

"Hunger is not your aunt (it will not bring you a pie)."