It's the proverb of a whaler: go big or go home.
That's the proverb, right?
What gets in the way is familiarity; the proverb is right: "Familiarity breeds contempt". Grateful eyes look at whatever it be as if they had never seen it before and caress it as if they would never see it again.
One of my favourites is the Spanish proverb: "It's good to do nothing, and then to rest".
Nowhere is the old proverb "money begets money" more apparent than in how companies seem determined to stuff the pay packets of their top executives, whatever the economic weather.
There is the old proverb, "Listen twice before you speak once".
As we consider what needs to be done, the first thing that comes to my mind is the African proverb, "It takes a village to raise a child".
One of the earliest English proverb collections is the so-called Proverbs of Alfred (c. 1150 80), containing religious and moral precepts.
The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, widely considered to be the definitive proverb dictionary, notes that "this formulation appears to be modern and mainly U.S". and traces its usage only as far back as 1999.
