Good things come to those who wait.

Haste makes waste.

Look before you leap.

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

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Be careful what you wish for. You might just get it.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Tomorrow never comes.

Revenge is sweet.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

Nine tailors make a man.

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

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

Fish and guests smell after three days.

You win some, you lose some.

Flattery will get you nowhere.

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Never speak ill of the dead.

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

Let the dead bury the dead.

Man does not live by bread alone.

Practice makes perfect.

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

Stupid is as stupid does.

It's the empty can that makes the most noise.

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse.

There's no place like home.

It's never too late to mend.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

Faith will move mountains.

A watched pot never boils.

The more the merrier.

All you need is love.

Persuasion is better than force.

Silence construes consent.

East is east, and west is west.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

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

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

The pen is mightier than sword.

Walls have ears.

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

While there is life, there is hope.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

More haste, less speed.

Horses for courses.

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

Every picture tells a story.

First impressions are the most lasting.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

Hope springs eternal.

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

Get out while the getting is good.

A dog is a man's best friend.

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

No news is good news.

Watch the doughnut, not the hole.

You can't fit a round peg in a square hole.

You can have too much of a good thing.

Never tell tales out of school.

A leopard can't change its spots.

A poor worker blames the tools.

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

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

Fight fire with fire.

The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.

A picture paints a thousand words.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Fair exchange is no robbery.

You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.

Wonders will never cease.

Money makes the world go round.

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

Any port in a storm.

A new broom sweeps clean.

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

There's no fool like an old fool.

Dead men tell no tales.

Life begins at forty.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

He who hesitates is lost.

There is honour among thieves.

Physician, heal thyself.

Learn to walk before you run.

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

What can't be cured must be endured.

Fight the good fight.

A miss is as good as a mile.

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

First things first.

Oil and water don't mix.

Great minds think alike.