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Great men may just with saints.

Proverbs and old sayings German about saints, man

Great speakers are usually liars.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Great talkers are commonly liars.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Great say-masters, bad pay-masters.

Proverbs and old sayings German about bad luck, bad

Great men's vices are accounted sacred.

Proverbs and old sayings German about man

Great trees give more shade than fruit.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Great men's servants don't think little of themselves.

Proverbs and old sayings German about man

Great things are done more through courage than through wisdom.

Proverbs and old sayings German about courage, wisdom, things

Great cry and little wool, said the fool, when he sheared a pig.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Great talk and little action.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about action

Great mansions have slippery doors.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Great griefs are mute.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Great smoke, little roast.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about smoke

Great cry and little wool, as the man said who shaved the sow.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man

Greater fools than they of Zago, who dunged the steeple to make it grow.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Great talents mature late.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

Great trees are envied by the wind.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

Great villainy is often called loyalty.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

Great deeds come from times of shortage.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about deeds

Great men do not seek power; it thrust upon them.

Proverbs and old sayings about power, man