I will die in the last ditch. [ William of Orange ]

The devil does not lie dead in a ditch. [ Proverb ]

He that takes too great a leap falls into the ditch. [ Proverb ]

And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. [ Bible ]

He who is an ass and thinks he is a stag, will find his error when he has to leap a ditch. [ Italian Proverb ]

Walk this world with no friend in it but God and St. Edmund, and you will either fall into the ditch or learn a good many things. [ Carlyle ]

Poverty breeds wealth; and wealth in its turn breeds poverty. The earth, to form the mould, is taken out of the ditch; and whatever may be the height of the one will be the depth of the other. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]