"Don’t Put All Your Eggs In One Basket."

Saturday Proverb:

Proverb: "Don’t put all your eggs in one basket."

 

Meaning: 

Have a backup plan. Don’t risk all of your money or time in one plan.

History / Interesting Fact:

This phrase was said to be first used in the novel “Don Quixote”, where it was writ­ten “It is the part of a wise man to keep him­self to­day for to­mor­row, and not ven­ture all his eggs in one bas­ket.”