Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop
Aesop
Related:
- Beware of a man's shadow and a bee's sting. Burmese Proverb
- Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious
is merely the shadow of a dream.
And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.... - Win or lose, you lose.
- Hasten to laugh at everything lest you be obliged to weep.
- Beware the one behind you.
- St. Patrick was a gentleman
who through strategy and stealth
drove all the snakes from Ireland.
Here's a toasting to his health -- but not too many toastings lest you lose yourself and then forget the good St.... - Envy will merit as its shade pursue,
But like a shadow proves the substance true.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 266... - Don't be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don't be too bitter lest you be spewed out. Jewish Proverb
