All roads lead to Rome.

Charity begins at home.

Money isn't everything.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.

Better safe than sorry.

It takes one to know one.

Only fools and horses work.

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

Waste not, want not.

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

Third time lucky.

Talk is cheap.

First impressions are the most lasting.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

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

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Opposites attract.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

You can't get blood out of a stone.

Accidents will happen.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

The exception which proves the rule.

Good fences make good neighbours.

You are never too old to learn.

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

Quid pro quo.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

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

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

The bread always falls buttered side down.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

Knowledge is power.

Birds of a feather flock together.

What goes up must come down.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

Less said, soon mended.

A good man is hard to find.

Seek and you shall find.

Don't rock the boat.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Speak as you find.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

Another day, another dollar.

While there is life, there is hope.

Christmas comes but once a year.

You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family.

Time and tide wait for no one.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

Oil and water don't mix.

Never speak ill of the dead.

No news is good news.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Empty bags cannot stand upright.

A problem shared is a problem halved.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

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

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Beggars can't be choosers.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

Persuasion is better than force.

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

If the mountain won't come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain.

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

It takes two to tango.

A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client.

Nothing new under the sun.

The apple never falls far from the tree.

Marriages are made in heaven.

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

Seize the day.

A person is known by the company they keep.

A cat has nine lives.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Many hands make light work.

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

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

You win some, you lose some.

Cold hands, warm heart.

Look before you leap.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

Patience is a virtue.

There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.

Don't test the depth of water with both feet.

Let the buyer beware.

Many are called, but few are chosen.

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

In the midst of life we are in death.

Like father, like son.

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

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Life begins at forty.