Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.
The journey is better than the inn".
Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view.
It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.