One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

Beauty is only skin deep.

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

No pain, no gain.

Tomorrow never comes.

Love is blind.

Silence construes consent.

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

The age of miracles is past.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

Needs must when the devil drives.

Enough is enough.

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

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

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

A leopard can't change its spots.

You can't make bricks without straw.

If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Ignorance is bliss.

He who hesitates is lost.

It's better to be poor and healthy, than sick and wealthy.

An army marches on its stomach.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Clothes do not make the man.

If you can't be good, be careful.

Christmas comes but once a year.

Big fish eat little fish.

Great minds think alike.

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

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

There is one law for the rich and another law for the poor.

Life is what you make it.

Time is a great healer.

Make haste slowly.

Shrouds have no pockets.

East, west, home's best.

First come, first served.

Practice what you preach.

Seek and you shall find.

Nine tailors make a man.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

You can't have your cake and eat it too.

Truth will out.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

Every picture tells a story.

Knowledge is power.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

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

Charity begins at home.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

You can't fit a round peg in a square hole.

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

Horses for courses.

It takes one to know one.

Enough is as good as a feast.

All that glitters is not gold.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

Every dog has its day.

Once a thief, always a thief.

Handsome is as handsome does.

An man's home is his castle.

When in Rome, do as Romans do.

Nothing succeeds like success.

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

Look before you leap.

Give the Devil his due.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Two heads are better than one.

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.

Strike while the iron is hot.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

Beware the Ides of March.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

One swallow does not a summer make.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

It ain't over, till it's over.

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

Do as I say, not as I do.

Opposites attract.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

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

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

Virtue is its own reward.