Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

A ship in the harbour is safe, but that is not what a ship is for.

Like father, like son.

The show must go on.

Everyone has their price.

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

Another day, another dollar.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

Truth will out.

Might is right.

Don't meet troubles half-way.

Good things come to those who wait.

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

You can't always get what you want.

All's fair in love and war.

Persuasion is better than force.

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

Make hay while the sun shines.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

Different strokes for different folks.

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

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

You can't make bricks without straw.

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

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

Children should be seen and not heard.

Tomorrow never comes.

Seek and you shall find.

Let the buyer beware.

Get out while the getting is good.

If you play with fire, you will get burnt.

A watched pot never boils.

Don't rock the boat.

You reap what you sow.

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

The best-laid plans go astray.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Slow but sure.

Grief divided is made lighter.

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

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

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Never go to bed on an argument.

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

The end justifies the means.

Horses for courses.

Virtue is its own reward.

Crime doesn't pay.

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

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

A person is known by the company they keep.

A dog is a man's best friend.

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

History repeats itself.

Third time lucky.

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

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

Faith will move mountains.

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

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Empty bags cannot stand upright.

Time is money.

If you build it, they will come.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Count your blessings.

One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

Cold hands, warm heart.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Seeing is believing.

Many hands make light work.

Oil and water don't mix.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

For everything there is a season.

If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well.

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

Bad news travels fast.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

God helps those who help themselves.

Life is what you make it.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

Live and let live.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

Moderation in all things.

Shrouds have no pockets.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

The Devil makes work for idle hands.