Great cry but little wool, as the devil said when he shear'd his hogs. Pr.
Great deeds cannot die; / They with the sun and moon renew their light, / For ever blessing those that look on them. Tennyson.
Great deeds immortal are—they cannot die, / Unscathed by envious blight or withering frost, / They live, and bud, and bloom; and men partake / Still of their freshness, and are strong thereby. Aytoun.
Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm. 20 Joseph Roux.
Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of ages. Victor Hugo.
Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness. Goethe.
Great, ever fruitful; profitable for reproof, for encouragement, for building up in manful purposes and works, are the words of those that in their day were men. Carlyle.
Great evils one triumphs over bravely, but the little eat away one's heart. Mrs. Carlyle.
Great fleas have little fleas / Upon their backs 25 to bite 'em; / And little fleas have lesser fleas, / And so ad infinitum. Lowell.
Great folks have five hundred friends because they have no occasion for them. Goldsmith.