proverb
When you sweep the house, you find everything.
1001 Yiddish Proverbs, by Fred Kogos (Secaucus, NJ: Castle Books, 1970), 59.
He who wears tite boots will hav too acknowledge the corn.
“Tight Boots,” in The Complete Works of Josh Billings (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co. 1876), 52.
You can’t drive a bent nail home.
“Flying Scrolls,” in The Skylark: and Other Poems (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1959), 72.
A seer a day keeps Armageddon away.
“Compost,” in One Man’s Meat (New York: Harper & Row, 1944), 164.