Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.
Gentle
A gentle hand may lead the elephant with a hair.Persian Rosary.
Gentleness does more than violence.French.
Gently but firmly.Latin.
Gently comes the world to those
That are cast in gentle mould.Tennyson.
The gentle calf sucks all the cows.Portuguese.
The gentle hawk mans herself.French.
The gentle lamb sucks any ewe as well as its mother;
The surly lamb neither its own nor another.Spanish.
The gentle ewe is sucked by every lamb.Italian.
There is no severity like gentleness.