Evil, like a rolling stone upon a mountain-top,
A child may first impel, a giant cannot stop. [ Trench ]

Oh, it is excellent
To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant. [ William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure ]

A giant will starve with what will surfeit a dwarf. [ Proverb ]

A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A stirring dwarf we do allowance give before a sleeping giant. [ William Shakespeare ]

How the giant element from rock to rock leaps with delirious bound! [ Byron ]

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks, for it kills the giant Despair. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

America is rising with a giant's strength. Its bones are yet but cartilages. [ Fisher Ames ]

A dwarf sees farther than the giant when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on. [ Coleridge ]

Thou dwarf dressed up in giant's clothes, that showest far off still greater than thou art. [ Suckling ]

The Grecian's maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy, many a speech to a sentence, and many a folio to a primer. [ Colton ]