Know which side your bread is buttered.

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

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

What can't be cured must be endured.

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

Faint heart never won fair lady.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Always put your best foot forward.

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

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

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

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

Stupid is as stupid does.

There is no accounting for tastes.

Honesty is the best policy.

It takes two to tango.

When one door shuts, another opens.

A prophet is not recognized in his own land.

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

Time is a great healer.

No rest for the wicked.

Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

When in Rome, do as Romans do.

Never speak ill of the dead.

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

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

Birds of a feather flock together.

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

Seize the day.

Love of money is the root of all evil.

It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

The age of miracles is past.

Put your best foot forward.

It ain't over, till it's over.

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

Many hands make light work.

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

Better safe than sorry.

One swallow does not a summer make.

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

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

Truth will out.

To every thing there is a season.

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

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

Time is money.

It's the empty can that makes the most noise.

Love makes the world go round.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

What goes up must come down.

Grief divided is made lighter.

Never go to bed on an argument.

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

Love will find a way.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

One good deed deserves another.

It's easy to be wise after the event.

There's no fool like an old fool.

If you play with fire, you will get burnt.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

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

There are none so blind as those, that will not see.

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

While there is life, there is hope.

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

Easy come, easy go.

If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.

Business before pleasure.

One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

There's safety in numbers.

Hide in plain sight.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

A man is known by his friends.

East, west, home's best.

Be careful what you wish for. You might just get it.

The Devil has all the best tunes.

Ignorance is bliss.

You can't always get what you want.