| 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. |
