[571] Non giudicar la nave stando in terra.
CHOICE. DILEMMA. COMPARISON.
Pick and choose, and take the worst.
The lass that has mony wooers aft wales [chooses] the warst.—Scotch.
Refuse a wife with one fault, and take one with two.—Welsh.
"He that has a choice has trouble" (Dutch).[572] "He that chooses takes the worst" (French).[573]
Of two evils choose the least.
Where bad is the best, naught must be the choice.
A traveller in America, inquiring his way, was told there were two roads, one long, and the other short, and that it mattered not which he took. Surprised at such a direction, he asked, "Can there be a doubt about the choice between the long and the short?" and the answer was, "Why, no matter which of the two you take, you will not have gone far in it before you will wish from the bottom of your heart that you had taken t'other."
"There's ne'er a best among them," as the fellow said of the fox cubs.
As good eat the devil as the broth he's boiled in.
Out of the fryingpan into the fire.