Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.

A house is not a home.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

Good fences make good neighbours.

Get out while the getting is good.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

Better late than never.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

A fish always rots from the head.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

Money is the root of all evil.

Life begins at forty.

Let the buyer beware.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

It takes one to know one.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

If you can't be good, be careful.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

Once bitten, twice shy.

Out of sight, out of mind.

You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family.

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

The early bird gets the worm.

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

Make haste slowly.

Christmas comes but once a year.

It's better to give than to receive.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Less is more.

More haste, less speed.

The wages of sin is death.

A dog is a man's best friend.

Once a thief, always a thief.

A picture paints a thousand words.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

Man does not live by bread alone.

Look before you leap.

It's best to be on the safe side.

An man's home is his castle.

A person is known by the company they keep.

Tomorrow never comes.