Don't put the cart before the horse.

You can't always get what you want.

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

The end justifies the means.

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

When one door shuts, another opens.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

A stitch in time saves nine.

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

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

Never give a sucker an even break.

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

Don't upset the apple-cart.

It's the singer not the song.

Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

There's no time like the present.

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

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

An eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth.

Don't rock the boat.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Penny wise and pound foolish.

Good fences make good neighbours.

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

You reap what you sow.

A miss is as good as a mile.

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

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

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

You can't run with the hare, and hunt with the hounds.

The leopard does not change his spots.

Speak as you find.

While there is life, there is hope.

Easy come, easy go.

The apple never falls far from the tree.

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

There is no accounting for tastes.

One hand washes the other.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

The best things in life are free.

One law for the rich and another law for the poor.

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

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

A cat has nine lives.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

Let bygones be bygones.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

It's no use shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Don't shoot the messenger.

Life's not all beer and skittles.

Don't get mad, get even.

A good man is hard to find.

Two heads are better than one.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

Fair exchange is no robbery.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

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

The longest journey starts with a single step.

A word to the wise is enough.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Cheats never prosper.

Time is money.

The bigger, the better.

What goes around comes around.

The customer is always right.

There's no fool like an old fool.

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

Knowledge is power.

Forgive and forget.

It's best to be on the safe side.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Only fools and horses work.

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

Give the Devil his due.

The show must go on.

Enough is as good as a feast.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Forewarned is forearmed.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

One swallow does not a summer make.