Man appoints, and God disappoints.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
The proof is in the pudding.
It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.