Youth is wasted on the young.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

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

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

A picture paints a thousand words.

There's no time like the present.

Truth will out.

No rest for the wicked.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

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

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Needs must when the devil drives.

Love is blind.

There are two sides to every question.

What goes around comes around.

Better safe than sorry.

You win some, you lose some.

A word to the wise is enough.

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

All the world loves a lover.

Every picture tells a story.

All roads lead to Rome.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

Let well alone.

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

Look before you leap.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

No man is an island.

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

Good fences make good neighbours.

Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

Dead men tell no tales.

If you play with fire, you will get burnt.

Flattery will get you nowhere.

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

He who hesitates is lost.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

Once a thief, always a thief.

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

Physician, heal thyself.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

A person is known by the company they keep.

Forewarned is forearmed.

Beggars can't be choosers.

Fair exchange is no robbery.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

Life is what you make it.

You can't take it with you.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

The longest journey starts with a single step.

Don't get mad, get even.

The Devil looks after his own.

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

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

There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Marriages are made in heaven.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

Blood is thicker than water.

It's the singer not the song.

Make haste slowly.

Don't spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar.

Fortune favours the brave.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

Don't throw good money after bad.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

Share and share alike.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

A ship in the harbour is safe, but that is not what a ship is for.

Everyone has their price.

Talk is cheap.

Opposites attract.

Seize the day.

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

Let the dead bury the dead.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

First things first.

It's easy to be wise after the event.

The more the merrier.

Pearls of wisdom.

Honesty is the best policy.

There's a time and a place for everything.

Horses for courses.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Still waters run deep.

All's well that ends well.

There's an exception to every rule.

There's no place like home.

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

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

Good things come to those who wait.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

Let the buyer beware.

Charity begins at home.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

Ignorance is bliss.