As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it.

East is east, and west is west.

The end justifies the means.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Share and share alike.

Hide in plain sight.

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

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

Children and fools tell the truth.

The apple never falls far from the tree.

It's easy to be wise after the event.

Let well alone.

Every stick has two ends.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

Horses for courses.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

A cat has nine lives.

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

Set a thief to catch a thief.

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

Don't blow your own trumpet.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

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

Still waters run deep.

Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear.

Fortune favours the brave.

Small things amuse small minds.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

One half of the world does not know how the other half lives.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

You are never too old to learn.

Good things come to those who wait.

You can't take it with you.

History repeats itself.

Handsome is as handsome does.

The Devil is in the details.

It's best to be on the safe side.

Enough is as good as a feast.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

You can't get blood out of a stone.

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

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Pride comes before a fall.

Less is more.

Worrying never did anyone any good.

There's a time and a place for everything.

The bread always falls buttered side down.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Learn to walk before you run.

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

If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again.

A person is known by the company they keep.

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

You can have too much of a good thing.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

There's one born every minute.

What goes up must come down.

There's no smoke without fire.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

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

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Every dog has its day.

The leopard does not change his spots.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

All you need is love.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

There's safety in numbers.

There's no fool like an old fool.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

Fight fire with fire.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

It takes one to know one.

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

When in Rome, do as Romans do.

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

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

Life begins at forty.

Marriages are made in heaven.

Don't test the depth of water with both feet.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

Live and learn.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

Misery loves company.

Where there's a will, there's a way.

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

To every thing there is a season.

No pain, no gain.

One good deed deserves another.

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.