Timeline for Are there any English sayings to the effect that little changes may lead to big changes?
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| Jan 17, 2011 at 15:00 | vote | accept | lovespring | ||
| Jan 17, 2011 at 1:26 | comment | added | Jimi Oke | Also, Great oaks… | |
| Jan 16, 2011 at 13:08 | comment | added | Orbling | I do like the oak/acorn proverb. The oldest recorded variant I think is in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, 1374: "as an ook cometh of a litel spyr". There is a lovely variant in D. Everett's The Columbian Orator, 1797: "Large streams from little fountains flow, Tall oaks from little acorns grow." | |
| Jan 16, 2011 at 9:17 | history | answered | Dori | CC BY-SA 2.5 |