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| Proverb - G
Gadding gossips shall dine on the potlid.Gambling sire, gambling son.Game is cheaper in the market than in the fields and woods.Garlands are not for every brow.Gather thistles, expect prickles.Gear is easier gained than guided.Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.Gentility is without ability is worse than plain beggary.Gentility, sent to market, will not buy a peck of meal.Gentry sent to market will not buy one bushel of corn.Get a name to rise early, and you may lie all day.Get thy spindle and thy distaff ready, and God will send flax.Giff gaff makes good friends.Gifts from enemies are dangerous.Girls will be girls.Give a bairn his will, and a whelp his fill, and none of these two will thrive.Give a beggar a bed and he'll repay you with a louse.Give a dog a bad name and hang him.Give a lie twenty-four hours' start, and you can never overtake it.Give a little, take a little.Give a loaf, and beg a shive.Give a man luck, and throw him into the sea.Give a man rope enough and he will hang himself.Give a thief rope enough, and he'll hang himself.Give a thing and take again
And you shall ride in hell's wain.Give a thing, and take a thing, to wear the devil's gold ring.Give and spend and God will send.Give and take is fair play.Give and take.Give credit where credit is due.Give every man his due.Give him an inch, he'll take an ell.Give him rope enough and he'll hang himself.Give losers leave to speak.Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it.Give never the wolf the wether to keep.Give wine to them that are in sorrow.Glasses and lasses are brittle wear.Glowing coals sparkle oft.Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot.Go abroad and you'll hear news of home.Go as far as you can see, and when you get there you'll see further.Go down the ladder when thou marriest a wife; go up when thou choosest a friend.Go farther and fare worse.Go further and fare worse.Go not for every grief to the physician, for every quarrel to the lawyer, not for very thirst to the pot.Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark.God and man think him a fool who brags of his of his own great wisdom.God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands.God cometh with leaden feet, but striketh with iron hands.God defend me from my friends; from my enemies I can defend myself.God defend you from the devil, the eye of a harlot, and the turn of a die.God grant me to contend with those that understand me.God heals and the doctor takes the fee.God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves.God is better pleased with adverbs than with nouns.God made hands before knives.God makes and apparel shapes, but it is money that finishes the man.God makes the back to the burden.God permits the wicked; but not for ever.God send me a friend that may tell me of my faults; if not, an enemy, and he will.God send you joy, for sorrow will come fast enough.God sends fortune to fools.God sends meat, but the Devil sends cooks.Gold and silver are mingled with dirt, till avarice parted them.Gold goes in any gate except heaven's.Gold may be bought too dear.Golden dreams make men wake hungry.Good ale is meat, drink and cloth.Good ale will make a cat speak.Good and quickly seldom meet.Good clothes open all doors.Good company on a journey is worth a coach.Good habits result from resisting temptation.Good harvests make men prodigal, bad ones provident.Good in the mouth and bad in the maw.Good is good, but better carries it.Good masters make good servants.Good men are scarce.Good nature without prudence is foolishness.Good seed makes a good crop.Good take heed doth surely speed.Good talk saves the food.Good things come in small packages.Good to fetch a sick man sorrow and a dead man woe.Good watch prevents misfortune.Good weight and measure is heaven's treasure.Good will should be taken for part payment.Good wines needs no bush.Good words and no deeds are rushes and reeds.Good words cost nought.Good words fill not a sack.Good words without deeds
Are rushes and reeds.Good workmen are seldom rich.Good, that comes too late, is good as nothing.Gossiping and lying go together.Grasp all, lose all.Grasp no more than thy hand will hold.Grass doesn't grow on a busy street.Grass is greener in other pastures.Gratitude is the least of virtues, but ingratitude the worst of vices.Gray and green make the worst medley.Great barkers are no biters.Great birth is a very poor dish at table.Great boast, small roast.Great bodies move slowly.Great cry and little wool, as the fellow said when he sheared his hogs.Great gaps may be filled with small stones.Great men's vices are accounted sacred.Great minds think alike.Great oaks from little acorns grow.Great spenders are bad lenders.Great strokes make not sweet music.Great talkers are great liars.Great talkers, little doers.Great trees keep down little ones.Great weights may hang on small wires.Great winds blow upon high hills.Greedy folks have long arms.Greedy fowk hae long arms.Grief pent up will burst the heart.Grieving for misfortunes is adding gall to wormwood.Grind with every wind.Grow where you are planted. |
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