Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.
It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
Every dog has his day.