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

Good things come in small packages.

The bread always falls buttered side down.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

One swallow does not a summer make.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

Dead men tell no tales.

It's better to give than to receive.

The longest journey starts with a single step.

Money talks.

You can't get blood out of a stone.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Pride comes before a fall.

Don't shoot the messenger.

Half a loaf is better than none.

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

Everyone has their price.

Waste not, want not.

Patience is a virtue.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Money makes the world go round.

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

Those who do not learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.

You can have too much of a good thing.

There's no fool like an old fool.

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

Enough is enough.

Attack is the best form of defence.

Count your blessings.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

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

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

The bigger, the better.

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

Hope springs eternal.

Make haste slowly.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

The Devil makes work for idle hands.

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

The leopard does not change his spots.

Clothes do not make the man.

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

You can't win them all.

It takes two to tango.

Hide in plain sight.

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

A man is known by his friends.

Every stick has two ends.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

Put your best foot forward.

A golden key can open any door.

First impressions are the most lasting.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

The best defence is a good offence.

Keep your chin up.

Cold hands, warm heart.

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

It's better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

It's the singer not the song.

Only fools and horses work.

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

All the world loves a lover.

Business before pleasure.

More haste, less speed.

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

Fine words butter no parsnips.

Time is money.

Silence construes consent.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Don't change horses in midstream.

Beauty is only skin deep.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

Let well alone.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

If you build it, they will come.

Less said, soon mended.

Enough is as good as a feast.

The pen is mightier than sword.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.

Blood is thicker than water.

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

Curiosity killed the cat.

All things must pass.

All good things must come to an end.

No man is an island.

All good things come to those that wait.

There is one law for the rich and another law for the poor.