Great fools must have great bells, [320]

Great griefs are mute, [101]

Great lords have long hands, but they do not reach to heaven, [399]

Great lords will have much, and poor folk can give but little, [399]

Great men may jest with saints, [150]

Great men’s requests are commands, [151], [374]

Great men’s servants don’t think little of themselves, [151]

Great promisers, bad paymasters, [151], [320]

Great scholars are not the shrewdest men, [34]

Great smoke, little roast, [100]