Try the Quiz : Proverbs for College Students : English Proverbs G-H
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PROVERB- Give a lie twenty-four hours' start, and you can never overtake it.
- Give knaves an inch and they will take a yard.
- Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
- Gluttony kills more than the sword.
- God is always on the side of the big batallions.
- God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
- Good company on the road is the shortest cut.
- A good husband makes a good wife.
- A good tale is none the worse for being told twice.
- Good wine needs no bush.
- Grasp all, lose all.
- A great city, a great solitude.
- The greatest talkers are the least doers.
- A growing youth has a wolf in his belly.
- Half the world knows not how the other half lives.
- Happy is the country that has no history.
- Haste trips over its own heels.
- He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue.
- He should have a long spoon that sups with the devil.
- He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.
- He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day.
- He that hath a full purse never wanted a friend.
- He that hath not silver in his purse should have silk in his tongue.
- He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.
- He that will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay.
- He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut.
- He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens.
- He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin.
- He who denies all confesses all.
- He who excuses himself accuses himself.
- He who gives fair words feeds you with an empty spoon.
- He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.
- He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.
- He who peeps through a hole may see what will vex him.
- Hide not your light under a bushel.
- The highest branch is not the safest roost.
- Hitch your wagon to a star.
- Hoist your sail when the wind is fair.
- Hope deferred makes the heart sick.
- Hope springs eternal in the human breast.
- A house divided against itself cannot stand.
- Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pays to virtue.
Try the Quiz : Proverbs for College Students : English Proverbs G-H