Attend to me, Sancho, I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and seasonably applied; but to be for ever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar. – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote de la Mancha, translated from Spanish
You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. Thats an education in itself. – Carol Burnett