"You Can't Make An Omelette Without Breaking A Few Eggs."

Saturday Proverb:

Proverb: "You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs."

Meaning: 

Sometimes, when we want to create or achieve something, we must sacrifice or destroy another thing to do it.

History / Interesting Fact:

Omelette (noun) = a dish (food) made from eggs

"Never Look A Gift Horse In The Mouth”

Saturday Proverb:

Proverb: "Never look a gift horse in the mouth”

Meaning: 

If someone offers you a gift, don't question it.

History / Interesting Fact:

A gift horse is a horse that was a gift, quite simply. When given a horse, it would be bad manners to inspect the horse's mouth to see if it has bad teeth. This can be applied as an analogy to any gift: Don't inspect it to make sure it matches some standard you have, just be grateful!

"The Early Bird Catches The Worm."

Saturday Proverb:

Proverb: "The early bird catches the worm."

Meaning: 

Success comes to those who prepare well and put in effort.

History / Interesting Fact:

This is first recorded in John Ray's A collection of English proverbs 1670, 1678:

"The early bird catcheth the worm."

The title of the work indicates that this was considered proverbial even back in the 17th century.

"Discretion Is The Greater Part Of Valour."

Saturday Proverb:

Proverb: "Discretion is the greater part of valour."

Meaning: 

Sometimes it's important to know when to give up and run away, instead of always acting brave and maybe getting hurt.

History / Interesting Fact:

This proverb was said in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part I when Prince Hal finds the cowardly Falstaff pretending to be dead on the battlefield, the prince assumes he has been killed. After the prince leaves the stage, Falstaff rationalizes “The better part of Valour, is Discretion; in the which better part, I haue (have) saued (saved) my life” 

"There’s No Place Like Home"

Saturday Proverb:

Proverb: "There’s no place like home"

Meaning: 

No matter how humble it may be, home is the place where one feels happiest.

History / Interesting Fact:

The proverb comes from the famous song Home, Sweet Home, by John Howard Payne:

‘Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home!
A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there,
Which, seek through the world, ne’er is met with elsewhere.