A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

hen see the ROBIN and the wren are God’s cock and hen; a WHISTLING woman and a crowing hen are neither fit for God nor men.
herb see BETTER a dinner of herbs than a stalled ox where hate is.
heresy see TURKEY, heresy, hops, and beer came into England all in one year.
hero see NO man is a hero to his valet.
Every HERRING must hang by its own gill
Individuals are accountable for their own actions.

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  1609 S. HARWARD MS (Trinity College, Cambridge) 85 Lett every herring hang by his owne tayle. 1639 J. CLARKE Paramiologia Anglo-Latina 20 Every herring must hang by th’owne gill. 1670 J. RAY English Proverbs 102 Every herring must hang by its own gill. .. Every man must give an account for himself. 1865 SURTEES Facey Romford’s Hounds xxi. One man is no more a criterion for another man than one horse is a criterion for another. .. Every herring must hang by its own head. 1890 T. H. HALL CAINE Bondman II. ii. Adam, thinking as little of pride, said No, that every herring should hang by its own gills. 1998 Times 16 June 22 You believe, like Bill Tilman who sailed leaky pilot cutters up Greenland fjords until he was 80, that ‘every herring should hang by its own tail.’ "independence
  

He who HESITATES is lost
Early uses of the proverb refer specifically to women.

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  1713 ADDISON Cato IV. i. When love once pleads admission to our hearts .. The woman that deliberates is lost. 1865 TROLLOPE Can You forgive Her? II. x. It has often been said of woman that she who doubts is lost .. never thinking whether or no there be any truth in the proverb. 1878 J. H. BEADLE Western Wilds xxi. In Utah it is emphatically true, that he who hesitates is lost—to Mormonism. 1887 BLACKMORE Springhaven xlii. Dolly hesitated, and with the proverbial result. 2001 Washington Times 8 Nov. D6(Herb & Jamaal comic strip) ‘Sometimes he who hesitates is lost .. and ends up several miles from the next freeway exit.’ "decision and indecision