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• Give a dog a bad name and hang him.
• Give a thief enough rope and he'll hang himself.
• Give and take.
• Give credit where credit is due.
• Give the devil his due.
• God helps those who help themselves.
• God made the country, and man made the town.
• The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth.
• The golden age was never the present age.
• A golden key opens every door.
• Good fences make good neighbors.
• A good name is sooner lost than won.
• The grapes are sour.
• Great oaks from little acorns grow.
• Half a loaf is better than no bread.
• The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
• Harp not for ever on the same string.
• Haste makes waste.
• He gives twice who gives quickly.
• He is rich that has few wants.
• He laughs best who laughs last.
• He that cannot obey cannot command.
• He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.
• He that is down need fear no fall.
• He travels the fastest who travels alone.
• He who begins many things, finishes but few.
• He who hesitates is lost.
• He who makes no mistakes makes nothing.
• He who pays the piper calls the tune.
• He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount.
• He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like.
• He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.
• Health is wealth.
• Heaven helps those who help themselves.
• A heavy purse makes a light heart.
• A hedge between keeps friendships green.
• Help a lame dog over a stile.
• History repeats itself.
• Honesty is the best policy.
• Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
• Hunger is the best sauce.
• 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.

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