A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

redressed see a FAULT confessed is half redressed.
A REED before the wind lives on, while mighty oaks do fall

• 
  c 1385 CHAUCER Troilus & Criseyde II. 1387 And reed that boweth down for every blast, Ful lightly, cesse wynd, it wol aryse. 1621 BURTON Anatomy of Melancholy II. iii. Though I liue obscure, yet I liue cleane and honest, and when as the lofty oake is blowne downe, the silly [frail] reed may stand. 1732 T. FULLER Gnomologia no. 3692 Oaks may fall, when Reeds stand the Storm. 1954 R. HAYDN Journal of Edwin Carp 20 Remembering that ‘a reed before the wind lives on—while mighty oaks do fall,’ I attempted to remove the pencil marks with my pocket eraser. "great and small; strength and weakness
  

refuse see the SEA refuses no river.
regulated see ACCIDENTS will happen (in the best-regulated families).
rejoice see it is a POOR heart that never rejoices.
There is a REMEDY for everything except death
Cf. medieval L. contra malum mortis, non est medicamen in hortis, against the evil of death there is no remedy in the garden.

• 
  с 1430 J. LYDGATE Dance of Machabree (EETS) 1. 432 Agens deeth is worth [useful] no medicine. 1573 J. SANFORDE Garden of Pleasure 52 There is a remedie for all things, sauing for death. 1620 T. SHELTON tr. Cervantes’ Don Quixote II. lxiv. There is a remedy for everything but death, said Don Quixote; for tis but hauing a Barke ready at the Sea side, and in spite of all the world we may embarke our selues. a 1895 F. LOCKER-LAMPSON My Confidences (1896) 95 There is a remedy for everything except Death . . so the bitterness of this disappointment has long passed away. 1974 Times 30 Sept. 25 I found the same readiness to wait reflected in a Spanish proverb which was quoted to me: Para todo hay remedio menos para la muerte (there is a cure for everything except death). It was a housewife speaking of Gibraltar’s present difficulties, and she meant that sooner or later a way out would be found. ■death; finality