Watch the doughnut, not the hole.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Money is the root of all evil.

A watched pot never boils.

Better safe than sorry.

Attack is the best form of defence.

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

The Devil makes work for idle hands.

Bad news travels fast.

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

Tomorrow is another day.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

Beware the Ides of March.

Blood is thicker than water.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Small things amuse small minds.

Nothing succeeds like success.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

Laughter is the best medicine.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

Speak as you find.

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

An empty vessel makes much noise.

Silence is golden.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

A good man is hard to find.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.

God helps those who help themselves.

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

Big fish eat little fish.

Count your blessings.

Handsome is as handsome does.

There is no accounting for tastes.

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

A bad penny always turns up.

Even a worm will turn.

Time will tell.

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

One hand washes the other.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

A leopard can't change its spots.

Fish and guests smell after three days.

Haste makes waste.

Enough is enough.

Enough is as good as a feast.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

If you build it, they will come.

Put your best foot forward.

If God had meant us to fly, he'd have given us wings.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

Less said, soon mended.

Waste not, want not.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

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

Good talk saves the food.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

One law for the rich and another law for the poor.

A picture paints a thousand words.

Home is where the heart is.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

The bigger, the better.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

The show must go on.

Let bygones be bygones.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

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

April showers bring forth May flowers.

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

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

Go the extra mile.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

A poor worker blames the tools.

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

Knowledge is power.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

Don't mix business with pleasure.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Give credit where credit is due.

Pride comes before a fall.

All publicity is good publicity.

You win some, you lose some.

Marriages are made in heaven.