• "Death is a black camel that kneels before every man's door."
• "Death is a black camel which kneels at every man's gate."

A bull does not become king just by entering the palace, but the palace becomes a barn.

When a clown moves into a palace he does not become a king. The palace becomes a circus.

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• "Adversity makes men, but prosperity makes monsters."
• "Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters."
• "Prosperity makes monsters, but adversity makes men."

• "Adversity makes men, but prosperity makes monsters."
• "Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters."
• "Prosperity makes monsters, but adversity makes men."

• "The rain dints the hard stone, not by violence, but by oft-falling drops."
• "The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling."
• "The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling."
• "The drop hollows the stone, not with force but by falling often."
• "Dripping water hollows out the stone not by force, but by continually falling."

Some famous usages include Lucretius, De rerum natura, Book 6, l. 312: "The ring on the finger is tapered by being worn, the dripping water hollows out the stone, the plow is subtly worn by the impact of the fields." [anulus in digito subter tenuatur habendo, stilicidi casus lapidem cavat, uncus aratri, ferreus occulte decrescit vomer in arvis]

Similarly Ovid, Ex Ponte, 4.10.5: "The drop hollows out the stone, the ring is worn by use, and the curved ploughshare is rubbed away by the pressure of the earth." [Gutta cavat lapidem, consumitur annulus usu, et teritur pressa vomer aduncus humo.]

Made famous in English by Hugh Latimer, "Seventh Sermon before Edward VI" (1549). Similarly, John Lyly, Euphues (1580): "The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble; many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks."

Death maketh sceptres and mattocks equal, and as soon arresteth he the prince that carrieth the sceptre, as the poor man that diggeth with the mattock.
[tr. Grindal (1564)]

Scepter and crown
Must tumble down,
And in the dust be equal made
With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
[tr. Shirley (1654)]

Death mingles scepters with spades.
[tr. Henry (1806)]

Death is the head of the leveling party.
[tr. Cawdry (1869)]

In death there is no difference betwixt the king and the beggar.
[tr. Cawdry (1869)]

In death there is no difference made
Between the sceptre and the spade.
[Inverness tombstone of Samuel Urquhart (1700); see Swift, below]

In Death, no Difference is made,
Betweene the Sceptre, and the Spade.
[Inverness tombstone of John Cutherbert of Drakes (1711)]

Death makes sceptres and hoes equal.
[tr. Aavitsland (2012)]

Death makes scepters equal with hoes.
[tr. Stone (2013)]

Mors dominos servis et sceptra ligonibus æquat,
Dissimiles simili condicione trahens.
 
[Death comes alike to monarch, lord, and slave,
And levels all distinctions in the grave.]
 
[Hall (1909), from Colman (c. 1633)]

Ah! who, in our degenerate days,
As nature prompts, his offering pays?
Here nature never difference made
Between the sceptre and the spade.
[Swift (1730), regarding the goddess of the sewer, Cloacina]

As this is as people say: From and within the forest comes the ax to it, as the handle for the ax that chops the tree is from the forest itself.

This is as people say: From and within the forest comes the ax to it, as King David was a descendant of Ruth the Moabite.

The axe goes to the wood, from whence it borrowed its helve: [the saying] is used against those who are injurious to those from whom they are derived, or from whom they have received their power.

They struck at the tree with an ax; and the tree said: “The handle is made from my body.”
 
[Ağaca balta vurmuşlar, “Sapı bedenimden” demiş.]

An ax went into the woods and its handle was of itself.
 
[Ormana (bir) balta girmiş sapı yine kendisinden (imiş).]

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