The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
Where there's music there can be no evil.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
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.
It is impossible for good or evil to last forever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.