Forewarned is forearmed.

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Less is more.

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

Keep your chin up.

He who hesitates is lost.

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

Make haste slowly.

There's one born every minute.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

First come, first served.

Silence construes consent.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

There are two sides to every question.

Time will tell.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

You can't always get what you want.

Each to their own.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

Good things come in small packages.

For everything there is a season.

All good things must come to an end.

Put your best foot forward.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Tomorrow is another day.

Only fools and horses work.

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

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

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

The best defence is a good offence.

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

A good beginning makes a good ending.

Speak as you find.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

Quid pro quo.

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

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

A cat has nine lives.

The bottom line is the bottom line.

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

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

Seize the day.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

Possession is nine points of the law.

Know which side your bread is buttered.

Accidents will happen.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

History repeats itself.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

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

The Devil is in the details.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

Where there's a will, there's a way.

Life's not all beer and skittles.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

Give credit where credit is due.

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

Silence is golden.

The show must go on.

Let the dead bury the dead.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Beauty is only skin deep.

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

Life is what you make it.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Every stick has two ends.

No rest for the wicked.

Flattery will get you nowhere.

Give the Devil his due.

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

The customer is always right.

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

Handsome is as handsome does.

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

Money makes the world go round.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

A house is not a home.

Do as I say, not as I do.

Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.

It's the singer not the song.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

It's better to be poor and healthy, than sick and wealthy.

It's better to wear out, than to rust.

Make hay while the sun shines.

Patience is a virtue.