If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Bread always falls buttered side down.

Don't get mad, get even.

All things must pass.

Virtue is its own reward.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Enough is enough.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

Love is blind.

Learn to walk before you run.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

All good things come to those that wait.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

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

Once bitten, twice shy.

Two heads are better than one.

A word to the wise is enough.

What goes up must come down.

An army marches on its stomach.

All roads lead to Rome.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

You win some, you lose some.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Any port in a storm.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

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

You can't see the forest for the trees.

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

Little pitchers have big ears.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

One half of the world does not know how the other half lives.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

A dog is a man's best friend.

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

Patience is a virtue.

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

Knowledge is power.

Love makes the world go round.

Let bygones be bygones.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer.

Children and fools tell the truth.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Make hay while the sun shines.

Good fences make good neighbours.

Tomorrow never comes.

Put your best foot forward.

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

Nothing succeeds like success.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

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

Like father, like son.

All's well that ends well.

It's better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

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

Do as I say, not as I do.

Better late than never.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

There is honour among thieves.

Shrouds have no pockets.

Speak as you find.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

Only the good die young.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

A person is known by the company they keep.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Better safe than sorry.

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

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Good talk saves the food.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

It's better to wear out, than to rust.

Don't throw good money after bad.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

A problem shared is a problem halved.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

An eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth.

Actions speak louder than words.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Horses for courses.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

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

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

More haste, less speed.

Don't upset the apple-cart.

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't want.

Every picture tells a story.