A cat has nine lives.

Money talks.

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

First things first.

Don't cross a bridge until you come to it.

There is honour among thieves.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

Grief divided is made lighter.

Never give a sucker an even break.

Those who do not learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.

Seek and you shall find.

Might is right.

It never rains but it pours.

Less said, soon mended.

Speak as you find.

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

If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well.

Practice what you preach.

The age of miracles is past.

There is no accounting for tastes.

Every dog has its day.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

Enough is as good as a feast.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

The apple never falls far from the tree.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.

The leopard does not change his spots.

One man's meat is another man's poison.

Don't upset the apple-cart.

Keep your powder dry.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Birds of a feather flock together.

A bad penny always turns up.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

For everything there is a season.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

Never go to bed on an argument.

What goes up must come down.

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Many hands make light work.

To the victor go the spoils.

A golden key can open any door.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

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

You can't make bricks without straw.

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

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

No rest for the wicked.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Life begins at forty.

Fish and guests smell after three days.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

The Devil is in the details.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

It's better to give than to receive.

There's more than one way to skin a cat.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Don't let the cat out of the bag.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

Slow and steady wins the race.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

'tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.

Watch the doughnut, not the hole.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

Worrying never did anyone any good.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

It takes one to know one.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Don't spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar.

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

There's no time like the present.

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't want.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

Cheats never prosper.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

You reap what you sow.

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

To live by the sword is to die by the sword.

Like father, like son.

There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.

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

A fish always rots from the head.

You can't get blood out of a stone.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

East, west, home's best.

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.