The Devil is in the details.

If you can't be good, be careful.

A poor worker blames the tools.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

Patience is a virtue.

Like father, like son.

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

Never give a sucker an even break.

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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

Small things amuse small minds.

A dog is a man's best friend.

No pain, no gain.

Worrying never did anyone any good.

Third time lucky.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

The Devil has all the best tunes.

Let the buyer beware.

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

Empty bags cannot stand upright.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

Give them an inch and they'll take a mile.

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

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

Grief divided is made lighter.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

You are never too old to learn.

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

Cheats never prosper.

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

All the world loves a lover.

You win some, you lose some.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

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

The end justifies the means.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

Paddle your own canoe.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

Honesty is the best policy.

A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client.

If God had meant us to fly, he'd have given us wings.

No man is an island.

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

A new broom sweeps clean.

A problem shared is a problem halved.

A cat has nine lives.

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

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Wonders will never cease.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

You can have too much of a good thing.

Count your blessings.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

What can't be cured must be endured.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Another day, another dollar.

Fair exchange is no robbery.

Good talk saves the food.

Money makes the world go round.

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

History repeats itself.

It's better to give than to receive.

Children and fools tell the truth.

Half a loaf is better than none.

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

Love makes the world go round.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

A fish always rots from the head.

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

Home is where the heart is.

Penny wise and pound foolish.

An army marches on its stomach.

The more the merrier.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

Don't mix business with pleasure.

Don't change horses in midstream.

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

There's no place like home.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

There are none so blind as those, that will not see.

Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.

Once bitten, twice shy.

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

Life is what you make it.

Still waters run deep.

A word to the wise is enough.

An man's home is his castle.

Beware the Ides of March.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Forewarned is forearmed.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king.