If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

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

Oil and water don't mix.

Good things come in small packages.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Easy come, easy go.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Tomorrow is another day.

Only fools and horses work.

Patience is a virtue.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

The end justifies the means.

While there is life, there is hope.

Keep your chin up.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

A new broom sweeps clean.

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

The truth will out.

Honesty is the best policy.

Go the extra mile.

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

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

Physician, heal thyself.

Fair exchange is no robbery.

A dog is a man's best friend.

Better safe than sorry.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

Still waters run deep.

A person is known by the company they keep.

Silence is golden.

Do as I say, not as I do.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

A house is not a home.

Learn to walk before you run.

The bread always falls buttered side down.

Fortune favours the brave.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

If you build it, they will come.

Make haste slowly.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

The wages of sin is death.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Everyone has their price.

Love of money is the root of all evil.

Paddle your own canoe.

There's no place like home.

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

Make hay while the sun shines.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Worrying never did anyone any good.

One person's trash is another person's treasure.

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

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Hide in plain sight.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family.

The leopard does not change his spots.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

The Devil looks after his own.

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

To the victor go the spoils.

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

Talk is cheap.

It goes without saying.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Money isn't everything.

No news is good news.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

The age of miracles is past.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

It's better to give than to receive.

Persuasion is better than force.

A fish always rots from the head.

Forewarned is forearmed.

Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.

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

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

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

In for a penny, in for a pound.

Many hands make light work.

There are two sides to every question.

Live and let live.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

There's a time and a place for everything.

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

A penny saved is a penny earned.

East is east, and west is west.