A rising tide lifts all boats.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

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

Into every life a little rain must fall.

The more the merrier.

It's best to be on the safe side.

Attack is the best form of defence.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

Let the buyer beware.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

It's better to give than to receive.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.

Make haste slowly.

Worrying never did anyone any good.

Every picture tells a story.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

There's one born every minute.

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

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

The exception which proves the rule.

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

For everything there is a season.

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

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

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

Give them an inch and they'll take a mile.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

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

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

Beware the Ides of March.

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

Never speak ill of the dead.

There are two sides to every question.

Time is money.

What goes around comes around.

Don't change horses in midstream.

Speak as you find.

Fair exchange is no robbery.

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

It's the singer not the song.

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

Needs must when the devil drives.

Crime doesn't pay.

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

East, west, home's best.

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

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

A place for everything and everything in its place.

While there is life, there is hope.

Keep your chin up.

Clothes do not make the man.

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

It's easy to be wise after the event.

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

Youth is wasted on the young.

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

A dog is a man's best friend.

Every dog has its day.

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

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

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Once bitten, twice shy.

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

Life is what you make it.

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

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.

Never tell tales out of school.

Silence construes consent.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

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

Blessed are the peacemakers.

There is honour among thieves.

To every thing there is a season.

An man's home is his castle.

Good fences make good neighbours.

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

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Shrouds have no pockets.

Don't meet troubles half-way.

You win some, you lose some.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

A word to the wise is enough.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Ignorance is bliss.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

The Devil has all the best tunes.

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

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.