Greek proverb
Greek proverb
exceeding gods grind mills small
The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small
eagle fly teach
No need to teach an eagle to fly
character revealed speech
A person's character is revealed by their speech
heavy honey sweet
A person can be as sweet as honey or as heavy as steel.
differs eye
The rabbits' eye differs from that of the owl.
deceive diplomat experience speak
To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, He has no experience with it
cannot hungry reason
You cannot reason with a hungry belly; it has no ears.
beneath famous stone woman zone
Beneath this stone I lie, the famous woman who loosed her zone to one man only
sufficient tomb whom
A tomb now suffices him (Alexander) for whom the whole world was not sufficient
cup slip
There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.
bones breaks tongue
The tongue has no bones, yet it breaks bones
send thee thou
I send thee myrrh, not that thou mayest be by it perfumed, but it perfumed by thee
brief hour lasts prime rose thorn
The rose's prime lasts one brief hour of morn, That past, I find no rose - only a thorn
talk vulgar
Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar