Needs must when the devil drives.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

For everything there is a season.

A miss is as good as a mile.

Cheats never prosper.

Never go to bed on an argument.

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

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

Once bitten, twice shy.

If you play with fire, you will get burnt.

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Honesty is the best policy.

Look before you leap.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

All good things come to those that wait.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

Wonders will never cease.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

Horses for courses.

An army marches on its stomach.

Don't meet troubles half-way.

First impressions are the most lasting.

A house is not a home.

If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen.

Bad news travels fast.

A good man is hard to find.

Ignorance is bliss.

It's all grist to the mill.

Life begins at forty.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

It never rains but it pours.

What goes up must come down.

Love will find a way.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

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

Physician, heal thyself.

There's no smoke without fire.

Make love not war.

Never give a sucker an even break.

Life's not all beer and skittles.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

Another day, another dollar.

Give the Devil his due.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

Time is a great healer.

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

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

A cat may look at a king.

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

Manners maketh the man.

Waste not, want not.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

Even a worm will turn.

Money is the root of all evil.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

Let the buyer beware.

Life is what you make it.

Less said, soon mended.

Nine tailors make a man.

Don't mix business with pleasure.

Live and let live.

Curiosity killed the cat.

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

Actions speak louder than words.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

Quid pro quo.

You can't win them all.

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

One swallow does not a summer make.

Slow but sure.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

There are two sides to every question.

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

Never tell tales out of school.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

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

East is east, and west is west.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

There is honour among thieves.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

The show must go on.

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

You can't get blood out of a stone.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

It goes without saying.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

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

There but for the grace of God, go I.

Beauty is only skin deep.

All roads lead to Rome.

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

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