The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. Arthur Koestler
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. Rebecca West
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand - ... George Eliot
The hedge is trodden down where it seems to lean. Latin Proverb
It seems like folly to give comfits to a cow [Mod] – It can be fun anyway. Persian Proverb
Nothing is ever as bad as it seems. Slovenian Proverb