There's no great banquet but some fare ill.

More proverbs about Challenge

• A man may bear till his back breaks. Endless patience and burden-carrying eventually reach a breaking point beyond which colla…
• Bear with evil and expect good. Enduring hardship with patience and moral steadiness attracts positive outcomes and rewar…
• Begging is an ill trade on a fast-day. Alms-giving diminishes on religious fast-days when even the charitable are themselves abs…
• Fear not the loss of the bell more than the loss of the steeple. Don't obsess over minor possessions when greater structures—relationships, principles, li…
• The bird that can sing and will not sing, must be made to sing. Talent unused is wasted potential; those capable of contributing must be compelled to ful…
• Who so blind as he that will not see? Willful ignorance is the most complete blindness; refusing truth is worse than lacking it.