A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

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

Only the good die young.

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

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

Good fences make good neighbours.

A picture paints a thousand words.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse.

Flattery will get you nowhere.

Don't upset the apple-cart.

Less said, soon mended.

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

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

Money doesn't grow on trees.

All's well that ends well.

Empty bags cannot stand upright.

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

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

You reap what you sow.

Speak as you find.

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

Enough is enough.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

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

When the cat's away the mice will play.

Many hands make light work.

The age of miracles is past.

All the world loves a lover.

There's more than one way to skin a cat.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Always put your best foot forward.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

If you play with fire, you will get burnt.

It ain't over, till it's over.

There is honour among thieves.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

Third time lucky.

Let the dead bury the dead.

Practice what you preach.

Money isn't everything.

Bad money drives out good.

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

Life is what you make it.

The bread always falls buttered side down.

Cold hands, warm heart.

Love is blind.

Slow but sure.

Only fools and horses work.

Practice makes perfect.

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

Don't get mad, get even.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Time is money.

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

Don't put the cart before the horse.

Don't cross a bridge until you come to it.

Another day, another dollar.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

A bad penny always turns up.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

Beauty is only skin deep.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

You can't take it with you.

The wages of sin is death.

Better safe than sorry.

Honesty is the best policy.

Paddle your own canoe.

Give credit where credit is due.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

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

Share and share alike.

One swallow does not a summer make.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

Christmas comes but once a year.

It's easy to be wise after the event.

Give the Devil his due.

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

Nature abhors a vacuum.

There's no time like the present.

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

The bigger, the better.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

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

The end justifies the means.

Live and learn.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

A new broom sweeps clean.