1817 Romanian Proverbs / Page 28
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From the same wood you can make a cross or a club.542.
From word to deed is a great space.543.
Full of courtesy, full of craft.544.
gaming, women and wine, while they laugh, they make men pine.545.
Gentle is that gentle does.546.
Gifts blind the eyes.547.
Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand.548.
Give a man luck and cast him into the sea.549.
Give him an inch, and he'll take an ell.550.
Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it.551.
Give the piper a penny to play and two pence to leave off.552.
Giving much to the poor doth enrich a man's store.553.
Gloves hide the ugliest hands.554.
God defend me from my friends; from my enemies I can defend myself.555.
God gives the milk, but not the pail.556.
God hath leaden feet, but iron hands.557.
God helps those who help themselves.558.
God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.559.
God stays long, but strikes at last.560.
God's mill grinds slow but sure.