Curiosity killed the cat.

Don't shoot the messenger.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

An army marches on its stomach.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

The longest journey starts with a single step.

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

The best things in life are free.

You can't take it with you.

Get out while the getting is good.

Fight fire with fire.

The wages of sin is death.

There is no accounting for tastes.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Forewarned is forearmed.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

All good things come to those that wait.

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

Less said, soon mended.

Revenge is sweet.

Misery loves company.

Count your blessings.

Give the Devil his due.

Forgive and forget.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

As you sow, so you shall reap.

Tomorrow is another day.

The bigger, the better.

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

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Silence construes consent.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Time is a great healer.

All the world loves a lover.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

In the midst of life we are in death.

Never give a sucker an even break.

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

It's best to be on the safe side.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

Crime doesn't pay.

Don't upset the apple-cart.

Quid pro quo.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

Clothes do not make the man.

Youth is wasted on the young.

No news is good news.

Another day, another dollar.

It's never too late to mend.

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

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

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing.

It's better to be poor and healthy, than sick and wealthy.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Once bitten, twice shy.

Talk is cheap.

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

Beauty is only skin deep.

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

If you can't be good, be careful.

Any port in a storm.

Seek and you shall find.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Love makes the world go round.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

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

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

Accidents will happen.

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

History repeats itself.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

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

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

Little pitchers have big ears.

Live and learn.

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

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

It's an ill wind that blows no one any good.

You can't have your cake and eat it too.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

Handsome is as handsome does.

A miss is as good as a mile.

There's none so deaf as those who will not hear.