Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

All that glitters is not gold.

Once bitten, twice shy.

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

Money isn't everything.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

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

It's the empty can that makes the most noise.

When one door shuts, another opens.

Hope springs eternal.

Horses for courses.

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

There is no accounting for tastes.

It takes one to know one.

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

Let the dead bury the dead.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Silence is golden.

All you need is love.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Pride comes before a fall.

Laughter is the best medicine.

Home is where the heart is.

If you build it, they will come.

Learn to walk before you run.

One hand washes the other.

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

Little pitchers have big ears.

The age of miracles is past.

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

Different strokes for different folks.

Slow and steady wins the race.

The best defence is a good offence.

Bad news travels fast.

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

Actions speak louder than words.

There's none so blind as those who will not see.

Opposites attract.

Look before you leap.

You can have too much of a good thing.

God helps those who help themselves.

Life's not all beer and skittles.

The bigger, the better.

Accidents will happen.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

The exception which proves the rule.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

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

Good fences make good neighbours.

A watched pot never boils.

Once a thief, always a thief.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

Enough is enough.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Every stick has two ends.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

Manners maketh the man.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

No pain, no gain.

Nine tailors make a man.

Honesty is the best policy.

A cat has nine lives.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

If the mountain won't come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

A cat may look at a king.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

A man is known by his friends.

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

Let bygones be bygones.

Slow but sure.

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

While there is life, there is hope.

If you play with fire, you will get burnt.

What goes around comes around.

The wages of sin is death.

All roads lead to Rome.

Money is the root of all evil.

Waste not, want not.

Bread always falls buttered side down.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

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

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Don't change horses in midstream.

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