If you can't be good, be careful.

A person is known by the company they keep.

A house is not a home.

Many hands make light work.

Knowledge is power.

Pride comes before a fall.

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

A picture paints a thousand words.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

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

There's safety in numbers.

Practice what you preach.

Slow and steady wins the race.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

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

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

Where there is smoke there is fire.

God helps those who help themselves.

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

Truth will out.

History repeats itself.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

You can't make bricks without straw.

Actions speak louder than words.

Christmas comes but once a year.

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

A stitch in time saves nine.

Silence construes consent.

Put your best foot forward.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

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

Don't shoot the messenger.

Beggars can't be choosers.

Money makes the world go round.

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

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

He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing.

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

The Devil looks after his own.

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

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

Good things come to those who wait.

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

Time is a great healer.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Don't let the cat out of the bag.

All good things come to those that wait.

Enough is as good as a feast.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

Laughter is the best medicine.

It's easy to be wise after the event.

Look before you leap.

Possession is nine points of the law.

Clothes do not make the man.

Silence is golden.

An man's home is his castle.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

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

Curiosity killed the cat.

All's fair in love and war.

All things must pass.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Little pitchers have big ears.

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

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

What goes around comes around.

No pain, no gain.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

Persuasion is better than force.

It's the singer not the song.

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

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

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

Even a worm will turn.

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

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

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

First things first.

The show must go on.

One good deed deserves another.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

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

There's no fool like an old fool.

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

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

In the midst of life we are in death.