Always put your best foot forward.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

A golden key can open any door.

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

Make love not war.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

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

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

The more the merrier.

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

Time and tide wait for no one.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

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

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

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

You win some, you lose some.

Time will tell.

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

The bread always falls buttered side down.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

There's an exception to every rule.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

It takes two to tango.

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

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

Don't meet troubles half-way.

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

The age of miracles is past.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

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

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

No pain, no gain.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

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

A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client.

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

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

Love makes the world go round.

Never give a sucker an even break.

Beauty is only skin deep.

Physician, heal thyself.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

The end justifies the means.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

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

All that glitters is not gold.

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

Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear.

One man's meat is another man's poison.

Fight the good fight.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

The truth will out.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

A man is known by his friends.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

Attack is the best form of defence.

Money makes the world go round.

Keep your powder dry.

One hand washes the other.

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

Bad money drives out good.

Virtue is its own reward.

There's none so blind as those who will not see.

Possession is nine points of the law.

No rest for the wicked.

To the victor go the spoils.

All good things come to those that wait.

Silence is golden.

Haste makes waste.

The best things in life are free.

Once bitten, twice shy.

You can't take it with you.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Cold hands, warm heart.

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

There's no time like the present.

Birds of a feather flock together.

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

Don't cross a bridge until you come to it.

Only fools and horses work.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

Worrying never did anyone any good.

A house is not a home.

Learn to walk before you run.

Revenge is sweet.

All's well that ends well.

Fortune favours the brave.

There are two sides to every question.