Fine words butter no parsnips.

Life's not all beer and skittles.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

Seeing is believing.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

Fair exchange is no robbery.

The bread always falls buttered side down.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

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

There's a time and a place for everything.

Learn to walk before you run.

There's an exception to every rule.

Less is more.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

You can't make bricks without straw.

Never give a sucker an even break.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

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

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

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

A stitch in time saves nine.

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't want.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

Time is money.

Don't let the cat out of the bag.

A cat may look at a king.

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

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

A leopard can't change its spots.

East is east, and west is west.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Seek and you shall find.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

To the victor go the spoils.

There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

You can't always get what you want.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes one healthy, wealthy and wise.

Might is right.

While the cat's away, the mice will play.

What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

Never speak ill of the dead.

Charity begins at home.

Beauty is only skin deep.

Pearls of wisdom.

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

Walls have ears.

Patience is a virtue.

History repeats itself.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

A thing begun is half done.

Fight the good fight.

Even a worm will turn.

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

If you build it, they will come.

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

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

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

Time and tide wait for no one.

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

Only fools and horses work.

Hide in plain sight.

The show must go on.

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

The best defence is a good offence.

Home is where the heart is.

Do as I say, not as I do.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

A problem shared is a problem halved.

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

Less said, soon mended.

There's no time like the present.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

While there is life, there is hope.

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

When in Rome, do as Romans do.

Money makes the world go round.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

Good fences make good neighbours.

Great minds think alike.

He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.

Go the extra mile.

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

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

All roads lead to Rome.

The exception which proves the rule.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.