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

Life's not all beer and skittles.

Once bitten, twice shy.

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

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

Never give a sucker an even break.

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

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

Enough is as good as a feast.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Another day, another dollar.

Enough is enough.

Misery loves company.

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

Actions speak louder than words.

A person is known by the company they keep.

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

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Fortune favours the brave.

You can't make bricks without straw.

Shrouds have no pockets.

Home is where the heart is.

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

A miss is as good as a mile.

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

What can't be cured must be endured.

Any port in a storm.

If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen.

Life is what you make it.

Make love not war.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

Children and fools tell the truth.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Attack is the best form of defence.

There's no place like home.

Horses for courses.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

No man is an island.

All things must pass.

A house is not a home.

Learn to walk before you run.

Let the buyer beware.

What goes around comes around.

It goes without saying.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

The wages of sin is death.

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

Money isn't everything.

You can have too much of a good thing.

Persuasion is better than force.

You are what you eat.

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

There's no fool like an old fool.

In the midst of life we are in death.

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

You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Every stick has two ends.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

Time and tide wait for no one.

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

Fight fire with fire.

Marriages are made in heaven.

Hope springs eternal.

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

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

Forgive and forget.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Ignorance is bliss.

God helps those who help themselves.

Make hay while the sun shines.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

Quid pro quo.

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

Good things come to those who wait.

Practice what you preach.

Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

An army marches on its stomach.

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

Don't get mad, get even.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

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

Get out while the getting is good.

Two heads are better than one.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Each to their own.

Like father, like son.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

Let the dead bury the dead.

Third time lucky.