Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

Be careful what you wish for. You might just get it.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

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

Don't blow your own trumpet.

Less is more.

Even a worm will turn.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

Persuasion is better than force.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

Accidents will happen.

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

Fortune favours the brave.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Time flies.

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

Honesty is the best policy.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Keep your powder dry.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

A good man is hard to find.

A fish always rots from the head.

Any port in a storm.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Make haste slowly.

Possession is nine points of the law.

Every picture tells a story.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Don't rock the boat.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

One swallow does not a summer make.

Love is blind.

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

One good deed deserves another.

Seeing is believing.

There's a time and a place for everything.

Two heads are better than one.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

Penny wise and pound foolish.

Less said, soon mended.

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

The age of miracles is past.

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

Hide in plain sight.

Life begins at forty.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

A new broom sweeps clean.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

All that glitters is not gold.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

If you can't be good, be careful.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

To every thing there is a season.

Truth will out.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Always put your best foot forward.

All's well that ends well.

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

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

One half of the world does not know how the other half lives.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Share and share alike.

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

Every dog has its day.

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

Paddle your own canoe.

Dead men tell no tales.

Silence construes consent.

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

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

An man's home is his castle.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

An army marches on its stomach.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

There's no smoke without fire.

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

A cat may look at a king.

Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.

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

Count your blessings.

Great minds think alike.

Bread always falls buttered side down.

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