An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure understated.
It was either me or Confucius that said the journey of a thousand miles begins with a vicious ass raping at airport security.
There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?
For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase.
If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.