A rising tide lifts all boats.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

The pen is mightier than sword.

You can't take it with you.

You reap what you sow.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

One law for the rich and another law for the poor.

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

Manners maketh the man.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

The customer is always right.

Variety is the spice of life.

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

Patience is a virtue.

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse.

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

A problem shared is a problem halved.

Time is money.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

There's a time and a place for everything.

Easy come, easy go.

Slow and steady wins the race.

If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers.

A cat may look at a king.

If you can't be good, be careful.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

Bad news travels fast.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

Tomorrow is another day.

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Children should be seen and not heard.

Seeing is believing.

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

Horses for courses.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Revenge is sweet.

Forewarned is forearmed.

Time and tide wait for no one.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

Beware the Ides of March.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Walls have ears.

One half of the world does not know how the other half lives.

Birds of a feather flock together.

Every dog has its day.

Red sky at night shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning.

Make hay while the sun shines.

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

Where there's a will, there's a way.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes one healthy, wealthy and wise.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.

Marriages are made in heaven.

Half a loaf is better than none.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.

Penny wise and pound foolish.

Another day, another dollar.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

It's better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

It's no use shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.

Any port in a storm.

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

Less is more.

Knowledge is power.

He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing.

The wages of sin is death.

The best things in life are free.

There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again.

The truth will out.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

Flattery will get you nowhere.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

There are none so blind as those, that will not see.

It's all grist to the mill.

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

There's no place like home.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

Better safe than sorry.

A stitch in time saves nine.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

No man can serve two masters.

If you play with fire, you will get burnt.

One swallow does not a summer make.

An eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth.