Who said 'The mills of the gods grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small'?
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ANSWERS.com [http://www.answers.com/topic/mills-of-the-gods-grind-slowly] reports: "This expression comes from ancient Greek, translated as "The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind small." In English it appeared in George Herbert's Jacula Prudentum (1640) as "God's mill grinds slow but sure."

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