693 Proverbs about Great / Page 11
201. An inch in a sword, or a palm in a lance, is a great advantage.
202. Before the time, great courage; when at the point, great fear.
203. Cleaning a blot with blotted fingers maketh a greater.
204. He is a great simpleton who starves himself to feed another.
205. Such awkward things will happen as going into the great square and coming back without ears.
206. The fault is as great as he that commits it.
207. The more riches a fool hath, the greater fool he is.
208. There is never a great dunghill at a sportsman's door.
209. Two great talkers will not travel far together.
210. A great affair covers up a small matter.
211. You are permitted in times of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge.
212. Another man's horse and your own whip can do a great deal.
213. Between saying and doing there is a great distance.
214. Enough is great riches.
215. Every fool can find faults that a great many wise men can't remedy.
216. Great lords have long hands, but they do not reach to heaven.
217. Great lords will have much, and poor folk can give but little.
218. He is no small knave who knows a great one.
219. It is dangerous to eat cherries with the great, they throw the stones at your head.
220. Little children, little sorrows; big children, great sorrows.
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