After a storm comes a calm.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Well done is better than well said.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
You never know what motivates you.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?