Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.

Preparation is half of the battle

There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.