Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

Flattery will get you nowhere.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

In the midst of life we are in death.

Money talks.

All's well that ends well.

The Devil makes work for idle hands.

Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.

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

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

When in Rome, do as Romans do.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

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

All that glitters is not gold.

Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don't.

A poor worker blames the tools.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Love is blind.

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

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

Silence is golden.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

All's fair in love and war.

Horses for courses.

A fish always rots from the head.

Practice makes perfect.

Forewarned is forearmed.

Don't mix business with pleasure.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

A picture paints a thousand words.

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

Man does not live by bread alone.

Never go to bed on an argument.

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

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

Appearances can be deceptive.

You reap what you sow.

Let the buyer beware.

Only the good die young.

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

Look before you leap.

Better late than never.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

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

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

Like father, like son.

Put your best foot forward.

You can't always get what you want.

Keep your powder dry.

Handsome is as handsome does.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

A watched pot never boils.

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers.

Any port in a storm.

What goes up must come down.

Make love not war.

Always put your best foot forward.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

All publicity is good publicity.

There's no time like the present.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

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

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

There is no accounting for tastes.

Speak as you find.

Bad news travels fast.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

Small things amuse small minds.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

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

There's one born every minute.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

One hand washes the other.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

All good things come to those that wait.

The bottom line is the bottom line.

Paddle your own canoe.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

Good talk saves the food.

Walls have ears.

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

Half a loaf is better than none.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

There are two sides to every question.

As you sow, so you shall reap.