Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Choice, Choosing

Choose rather to be the tail of lions than the head of foxes.Hebrew.

Choose what is most fit, custom will make it the most agreeable.

Choose what you are, no other state prefer.Elphinston.

Hard is the choice when one is compelled either by silence to die with grief or by speaking to live with shame.Ben Jonson.

He that chooses takes the worst.

He that has a choice has trouble.Dutch.

Hobson’s choice; i.e., the next or nothing.

No choice among stinking fish.

There is but bad choice where the whole stock is bad.

There is small choice in rotten apples.Don Quixote.