No rest for the wicked.

Persuasion is better than force.

Horses for courses.

Many hands make light work.

Forewarned is forearmed.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

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

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

All's fair in love and war.

Shrouds have no pockets.

April showers bring forth May flowers.

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

Get out while the getting is good.

Two heads are better than one.

Knowledge is power.

Christmas comes but once a year.

You can't get blood out of a stone.

A person is known by the company they keep.

Waste not, want not.

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

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

All you need is love.

Fair exchange is no robbery.

Good talk saves the food.

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

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

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

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

First things first.

To every thing there is a season.

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

Give credit where credit is due.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Like father, like son.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

East, west, home's best.

Money is the root of all evil.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

Life begins at forty.

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

Love will find a way.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Another day, another dollar.

Tomorrow is another day.

Grief divided is made lighter.

Might is right.

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

Talk is cheap.

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Every dog has its day.

In the midst of life we are in death.

Physician, heal thyself.

Accidents will happen.

Manners maketh the man.

The leopard does not change his spots.

You can have too much of a good thing.

Let the buyer beware.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Flattery will get you nowhere.

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

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

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

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

The bigger, the better.

To the victor go the spoils.

Birds of a feather flock together.

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

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

One hand washes the other.

Third time lucky.

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Good things come to those who wait.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Good fences make good neighbours.

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

As you sow, so you shall reap.

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

Live and learn.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Silence construes consent.

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

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

It's an ill wind that blows no one any good.

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

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

You can't win them all.