One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

Ignorance is bliss.

Persuasion is better than force.

An army marches on its stomach.

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

Let sleeping dogs lie.

The bottom line is the bottom line.

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

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

You can have too much of a good thing.

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

Money isn't everything.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

Faith will move mountains.

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

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

Never give a sucker an even break.

The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.

Each to their own.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

East is east, and west is west.

Every stick has two ends.

Life begins at forty.

There is no accounting for tastes.

Variety is the spice of life.

What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

Better safe than sorry.

If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

Count your blessings.

While there is life, there is hope.

Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

Clothes do not make the man.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

Everyone has their price.

It's best to be on the safe side.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Oil and water don't mix.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

There's no place like home.

If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Possession is nine points of the law.

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

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

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

There's no time like the present.

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Paddle your own canoe.

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

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

A penny saved is a penny earned.

More haste, less speed.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

Moderation in all things.

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

Love is blind.

Silence is golden.

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

Truth is stranger than fiction.

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

A poor worker blames the tools.

He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

Give the Devil his due.

Money makes the world go round.

Live and learn.

Home is where the heart is.

Needs must when the devil drives.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

There's a time and a place for everything.

What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Life's not all beer and skittles.

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

Better late than never.

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

To every thing there is a season.

Once a thief, always a thief.

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

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

The truth will out.

Hide in plain sight.

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

It's better to give than to receive.