An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

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

The course of true love never did run smooth.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Honesty is the best policy.

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

Seize the day.

Time is money.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Enough is as good as a feast.

Different strokes for different folks.

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

You are never too old to learn.

A ship in the harbour is safe, but that is not what a ship is for.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

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

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

Don't throw good money after bad.

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

Dead men tell no tales.

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

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Give credit where credit is due.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

What can't be cured must be endured.

Great minds think alike.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

The early bird gets the worm.

The apple never falls far from the tree.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

It never rains but it pours.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Laughter is the best medicine.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

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

It takes all sorts to make a world.

The bigger, the better.

The truth will out.

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

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

There's an exception to every rule.

Time and tide wait for no one.

Big fleas have little fleas upon their back to bite 'em.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

Many hands make light work.

Moderation in all things.

One good deed deserves another.

Don't get mad, get even.

All's fair in love and war.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

Every stick has two ends.

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

Silence is golden.

Horses for courses.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Charity begins at home.

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

Fortune favours the brave.

Variety is the spice of life.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

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

Fair exchange is no robbery.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

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

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

The best things in life are free.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

Once a thief, always a thief.

Another day, another dollar.

Love will find a way.

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

Go the extra mile.

Fight fire with fire.

When in Rome, do as Romans do.

One hand washes the other.

Christmas comes but once a year.

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

All things must pass.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.