As good twenty as nineteen.
Meaning: Waiting one more year won't materially improve a situation already long delayed or postponed.
Origin: Recorded in A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, an undated collection published in London by Whittaker & Co. around 1880 and credited to Thomas Preston. Its earlier history hasn't been traced.
More proverbs about Morality
- Good wares make quick markets. — Quality products sell themselves without requiring aggressive persuasion or extended nego…
- Good watch prevents misfortune. — Vigilant attention to detail and circumstances stops problems before they develop into se…
- Good wine needs no bush. — Excellent quality requires no advertisement; genuine merit speaks for itself without prom…
- What goes around comes around — Your actions will eventually return to affect you.
- Don't put all your eggs in one basket — Don't risk everything on one venture.
- Two wrongs don't make a right — Responding to wrongdoing with more wrongdoing is never justified.
From our idioms
- Bien luné — In a good mood — and mal luné, in a bad one.
- Depuis belle lurette — For ages; for a very long time.
- Depuis des lustres — For a very long time.