The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

He had a face like a blessing.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.

Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.

Thank you for nothing.