Possible Clues:

• Sayings like "Haste makes waste"
• Sayings like 'Haste makes waste'
• Collection in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
• Some almanac entries
• 'What goes up must come down' and others
• Traditional truisms
• More than one saw notice over long period
• Apothegms
• Time-tested sayings
• "Practice makes perfect" and others