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The saying that "great talkers are little does" is a charge that someone is talking big but not accomplishing anything.
It is one thing to talk, and its on thing to act upon. :)
This proverb from Poor Richard's Almanac means that people who talk a lot or boast about what they will do often end up doing very little in reality. It emphasizes the idea that actions speak louder than words and that true achievement comes from doing rather than just talking.
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This is not an idiom. It means just what it seems to mean. It's a proverb. And it's also a sentence already.
The proverb 'great minds think alike' means that when two or more people have the same thought, thus saying you and the other person(s) have a great mind.
These words are not really a proverb. In a figurative sense it means 'something unlikely' or 'an undertaking in which there is little chance of success'. First came to notice in the late 1860's. May have come from a military source that the notion of a shot at a target from a great distance would be difficult to make
WikiAnswers cannot write your stories for you, but we WILL help you to figure out what to write. This proverb means that if you take care of little problems as they come up, you won't have a big problem later on. Write about a time when someone ignored little things, thinking they were just little things and not important and not worth taking time to fix, but then later on all of the little things had turned into a great big problem for the person.
it means that by starting something small you can go to great extents. without those little drops of water how can an ocean exist? all those tiny drops collected together made the ocean
You've miseheard the proverb. It's actually "Halfthe truth is often a great lie."
It is a Puerto Rican proverb, the original author is unknown.
The meaning is 'Great things have small beginnings'. Origins go back to the old English 'aecern' meaning berry or fruit.