Virtue is its own reward.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

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

The exception which proves the rule.

Curiosity killed the cat.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

There's no place like home.

You are never too old to learn.

Money isn't everything.

What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.

There's no smoke without fire.

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

A watched pot never boils.

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

Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.

Fight the good fight.

Still waters run deep.

Don't get mad, get even.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

One hand washes the other.

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

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

Better late than never.

Speak as you find.

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

Barking dogs seldom bite.

A picture paints a thousand words.

Empty bags cannot stand upright.

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

Let bygones be bygones.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

A problem shared is a problem halved.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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

A word to the wise is enough.

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

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

Great minds think alike.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

A cat has nine lives.

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

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

Do as I say, not as I do.

Seeing is believing.

The customer is always right.

Handsome is as handsome does.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

It ain't over, till it's over.

Every picture tells a story.

Silence construes consent.

One good deed deserves another.

Clothes do not make the man.

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

First things first.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Get out while the getting is good.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

The pen is mightier than sword.

Don't throw good money after bad.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

You can't make bricks without straw.

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

There's no time like the present.

Fortune favours the brave.

Make haste slowly.

Tomorrow is another day.

Cold hands, warm heart.

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

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

It goes without saying.

Enough is as good as a feast.

The Devil has all the best tunes.

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

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

Persuasion is better than force.

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

Needs must when the devil drives.

All you need is love.

There's no fool like an old fool.

No news is good news.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

The Devil looks after his own.

Different strokes for different folks.

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

All good things come to those that wait.

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

You win some, you lose some.

Crime doesn't pay.

As you sow, so you shall reap.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

Don't mix business with pleasure.