A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

got see also a PENNY saved is a penny earned.
grain see if in FEBRUARY there be no rain, ‘tis neither good for hay nor grain.
grandmother see don’t TEACH your grandmother to suck eggs.
While the GRASS grows, the steed starves
Dreams or expectations may be realized too late. Cf. medieval L. dum gramen crescit, equus in moriendo quiescit, while the grass grows, the horse lies dying.

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  с 1350 Douce MS 52 no. 20 While the grasse growes, the goode hors sterues. a 1500 in Wright & Halliwell Reliquia’ Antiques (1841) I. 208 While the grasse growes the steede starves. 1600-1 SHAKESPEARE Hamlet III. ii. 333 You have the voice of the King himself for your succession.—Ay, sir, but ‘While the grass grows’—the proverb is something musty. 1821 J. GALT Ayrshire Legatees x. Until ye get a kirk there can be no marriage. But the auld horse may die waiting for the new grass. 1911 G. B. SHAW Doctor’s Dilemma III. 56 I shall sell them next year fast enough, after my one-man-show; but while the grass grows the steed starves. 1973 ‘M. INNES’ Appleby’s Answer ii. ‘The working capital?’ ‘Well.. while the grass grows the steed mustn’t starve. Say five hundred down.’ ■ expectation
  

The GRASS is always greener on the other side of the fence
Cf. OVID Ars Amatoria I. 349 fertilior seges est alienis semper in agris, the harvest is always more fruitful in another man’s fields.

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  1959 H. & M. WILLIAMS in J. C. Trewin Plays of Year XIX. 13 (title) The grass is greener. 1965 Which? Mar. 91 ‘The grass always looks greener on the other side of the fence,’ said another informant, explaining that while stores who do practise the system are uneasy about it.. those outside constantly wonder whether results might not justify it. 2001 Spectator 15/22 Dec. 26 They push their heads through fences and get stuck (the grass on the other side really is greener: sheep invented the axiom). ■ content and discontent