While there is life, there is hope.

Life's not all beer and skittles.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

A house is not a home.

Attack is the best form of defence.

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Possession is nine points of the law.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

The Devil is in the details.

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

All's fair in love and war.

East, west, home's best.

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

Worrying never did anyone any good.

No rest for the wicked.

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

Don't cross a bridge until you come to it.

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

Two wrongs don't make a right.

If you play with fire, you will get burnt.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Enough is enough.

Time and tide wait for no one.

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

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

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Do as I say, not as I do.

Never give a sucker an even break.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

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

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Less is more.

All publicity is good publicity.

If you can't be good, be careful.

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

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

A cat may look at a king.

Christmas comes but once a year.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Don't get mad, get even.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Every stick has two ends.

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

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

You can't always get what you want.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Two heads are better than one.

Give them an inch and they'll take a mile.

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

You can't make bricks without straw.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

It's all grist to the mill.

A miss is as good as a mile.

One who sups with the devil, should have a long spoon.

Slow but sure.

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

Practice makes perfect.

Live and learn.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

Fish and guests smell after three days.

It's better to give than to receive.

Never tell tales out of school.

The bottom line is the bottom line.

There is no accounting for tastes.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Let the dead bury the dead.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

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

Only the good die young.

While the cat's away, the mice will play.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

The bread always falls buttered side down.

Honesty is the best policy.

Practice what you preach.

Quid pro quo.

What can't be cured must be endured.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

If you build it, they will come.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.

Might is right.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Good things come to those who wait.

One law for the rich and another law for the poor.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

All good things come to those that wait.