Be careful what you wish for. You might just get it.

Business before pleasure.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

You win some, you lose some.

Never tell tales out of school.

Look before you leap.

Oil and water don't mix.

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

Children and fools tell the truth.

The age of miracles is past.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Bread always falls buttered side down.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

There's no smoke without fire.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

Charity begins at home.

Put your best foot forward.

Quid pro quo.

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

There's one born every minute.

All things must pass.

A fish always rots from the head.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Many hands make light work.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

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

Curiosity killed the cat.

The Devil has all the best tunes.

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

History repeats itself.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.

Accidents will happen.

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

Make haste slowly.

There is honour among thieves.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

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

Beat swords into ploughshares.

Time is money.

Each to their own.

Time and tide wait for no one.

Misery loves company.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

Silence construes consent.

Revenge is sweet.

An army marches on its stomach.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

There are none so blind as those, that will not see.

Every stick has two ends.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Beauty is only skin deep.

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

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

East is east, and west is west.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

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

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

A leopard can't change its spots.

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

The exception which proves the rule.

It's an ill wind that blows no one any good.

Do as I say, not as I do.

Only the good die young.

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

Good fences make good neighbours.

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

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

Still waters run deep.

The longest journey starts with a single step.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Every picture tells a story.

Seeing is believing.

There is no accounting for tastes.

It never rains but it pours.

The early bird gets the worm.

Pearls of wisdom.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

You are never too old to learn.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.

Don't change horses in midstream.

A bad penny always turns up.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

All the world loves a lover.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

All you need is love.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.