Discretion is the better part of valour.

Never tell tales out of school.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

Time is a great healer.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

Give the Devil his due.

Enough is enough.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

The bottom line is the bottom line.

You can't run with the hare, and hunt with the hounds.

Manners maketh the man.

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

A house is not a home.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

Cold hands, warm heart.

Clothes do not make the man.

First come, first served.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

Silence is golden.

While the cat's away, the mice will play.

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

Revenge is sweet.

Ignorance is bliss.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

It's no use shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Always put your best foot forward.

There's one born every minute.

Blood is thicker than water.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

Love is blind.

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

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

Penny wise and pound foolish.

The customer is always right.

All good things come to those that wait.

Make haste slowly.

Crime doesn't pay.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

Attack is the best form of defence.

Walls have ears.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

Let bygones be bygones.

What can't be cured must be endured.

Knowledge is power.

The Devil makes work for idle hands.

If the cap fits, wear it.

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

Better safe than sorry.

Cheats never prosper.

The leopard does not change his spots.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

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

Less is more.

There's no smoke without fire.

Man does not live by bread alone.

In the midst of life we are in death.

A cat has nine lives.

Nine tailors make a man.

There's an exception to every rule.

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

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Make hay while the sun shines.

What goes around comes around.

A thing begun is half done.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Go the extra mile.

Less said, soon mended.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Better late than never.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

A poor worker blames the tools.

What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.

Any port in a storm.

East is east, and west is west.

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

Only fools and horses work.

Tomorrow never comes.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

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

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

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

Needs must when the devil drives.

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

Paddle your own canoe.

Good fences make good neighbours.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

All roads lead to Rome.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Don't let the cat out of the bag.