Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
Patience and shuffle the cards.
One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.
For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.