Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. George MacDonald
Night's darkness is the bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn. Rabindranath Tagore
If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way. Émile Zola
Covetousness bursts the bag. Spanish Proverb
Avarice bursts the bag. French Proverb
If you heat an empty pot it bursts. German Proverb