Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

A thing begun is half done.

Strike while the iron is hot.

Hide in plain sight.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

East is east, and west is west.

All roads lead to Rome.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

The bigger, the better.

Better late than never.

Man does not live by bread alone.

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

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Haste makes waste.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.

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

The show must go on.

Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

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

Oil and water don't mix.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

Big fleas have little fleas upon their back to bite 'em.

A bad penny always turns up.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Don't rock the boat.

Only the good die young.

A cat has nine lives.

You are never too old to learn.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

The best defence is a good offence.

Small things amuse small minds.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

All's fair in love and war.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

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

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

Fight the good fight.

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

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

A ship in the harbour is safe, but that is not what a ship is for.

Practice what you preach.

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

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

March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb.

Needs must when the devil drives.

You can't win them all.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

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

Never give a sucker an even break.

God helps those who help themselves.

Time and tide wait for no one.

All the world loves a lover.

The best things in life are free.

Time will tell.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

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

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

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Virtue is its own reward.

Make haste slowly.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

Christmas comes but once a year.

Fortune favours the brave.

As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it.

Money makes the world go round.

A problem shared is a problem halved.

Pearls of wisdom.

Opposites attract.

Good things come in small packages.

Handsome is as handsome does.

First come, first served.

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

If God had meant us to fly, he'd have given us wings.

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

Enough is as good as a feast.

The exception which proves the rule.

Physician, heal thyself.

Nothing new under the sun.

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

You are what you eat.