A great cry and little wool. [ Proverb ]

You go to a goat to buy wool. [ Proverb ]

A wool seller knows a wool buyer. [ Proverb ]

A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy. [ Proverb ]

Your wits are gone a wool-gathering. [ Proverb ]

He loves mutton well that eats the wool. [ Proverb ]

The fates but only spin the coarser clue;
The finest of the wool is left for you. [ John Dryden ]

Many that go out for wool come home shorn. [ Proverb ]

Better give the wool than the whole sheep. [ Proverb ]

About goat's wool, (i.e. a worthless matter).

You contend about a goat's beard or lock of wool. [ Proverb ]

You came for wool but shall return shorn yourself. [ Proverb ]

There is a warp of evil woven in the wool of good. [ Manilius ]

There is no wool so white, but a dyer can make it black. [ Proverb ]

You may keep wool till it is dirt, and flax till it is silk. [ Proverb ]

The frog sings; and yet she has neither hair nor wool to cover her. [ Proverb ]

Great cry but little wool, as the devil said when he shear'd his hogs. [ Proverb ]

The wit of you, and the wool of a blue dog, would make a very good medley. [ Proverb ]

Would you eat finer bread than is made of wheat, or wear finer cloth than is made of wool? [ Proverb ]

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool. [ James A. Garfield ]

Surely you will not calculate any essential difference from mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over brackish depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace. You know that the bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and how many blithe hearts dance under coarse wool! [ Chapin ]