| 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. | 1 |
| Choose what is most fit, custom will make it the most agreeable. | 2 |
| Choose what you are, no other state prefer. Elphinston. | 3 |
| Hard is the choice when one is compelled either by silence to die with grief or by speaking to live with shame. Ben Jonson. | 4 |
| He that chooses takes the worst. | 5 |
| He that has a choice has trouble. Dutch. | 6 |
| Hobson’s choice; i.e., the next or nothing. | 7 |
| No choice among stinking fish. | 8 |
| There is but bad choice where the whole stock is bad. | 9 |
| There is small choice in rotten apples. Don Quixote. | 10 | | |
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