The way to deal with an impossible task is to chop it down into a number of merely very difficult tasks, and break each one of them into a group of horribly hard tasks, and each one of them into tricky jobs, and each one of them...
(Terry Pratchet, Truckers)

Check Taylor's article The Style of Proverbs and Ilina Basevska's Searching for'yesterday's man' both give a good historical background to the study of proverbs. Want to read the quote of the day?

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