Slow and steady wins the race.

Business before pleasure.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

The Devil has all the best tunes.

Paddle your own canoe.

The Devil is in the details.

The Devil looks after his own.

What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Man does not live by bread alone.

You can't win them all.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

A leopard can't change its spots.

You can have too much of a good thing.

One hand washes the other.

Home is where the heart is.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

Once a thief, always a thief.

Love will find a way.

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

Children should be seen and not heard.

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

Barking dogs seldom bite.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

Never speak ill of the dead.

Don't change horses in midstream.

Life is what you make it.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

A fish always rots from the head.

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

There's no fool like an old fool.

The pen is mightier than sword.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

Charity begins at home.

The show must go on.

One person's trash is another person's treasure.

The bigger, the better.

You are never too old to learn.

Enough is as good as a feast.

Good talk saves the food.

Wonders will never cease.

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

Do as I say, not as I do.

All things must pass.

An army marches on its stomach.

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

Walls have ears.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

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

It's all grist to the mill.

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

Virtue is its own reward.

Small things amuse small minds.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

Birds of a feather flock together.

First come, first served.

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

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

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

Haste makes waste.

Honesty is the best policy.

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

There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

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

Worrying never did anyone any good.

Practice what you preach.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Horses for courses.

To live by the sword is to die by the sword.

Attack is the best form of defence.

The age of miracles is past.

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

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Fight the good fight.

A person is known by the company they keep.

Penny wise and pound foolish.

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

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

Life begins at forty.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

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

It never rains but it pours.

Less is more.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Bread always falls buttered side down.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Revenge is sweet.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.