| Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887. | | | | Certainty |
| | | Certainty is the father of right and mother of justice. Pope. | 1 |
He that leaves certainty and trusts to chance, When fools pipe he may dance. | 2 |
| I will not change a cottage in possession for a kingdom in reversion. | 3 |
| Nothing is certain in this world but death and taxes. | 4 |
| Nothing is certain in this world; the wheel of fortune is forever in motion. Petrarch. | 5 |
| Quit not certainty for hope. | 6 | | |
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