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

Discretion is the better part of valour.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Worrying never did anyone any good.

Fortune favours the brave.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

Seize the day.

Good talk saves the food.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

It never rains but it pours.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

One person's trash is another person's treasure.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

Silence construes consent.

Great minds think alike.

No pain, no gain.

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

Let well alone.

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

There's no fool like an old fool.

Each to their own.

Silence is golden.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Never give a sucker an even break.

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

Enough is enough.

Big fish eat little fish.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

Different strokes for different folks.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

Beware the Ides of March.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Fish and guests smell after three days.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

The more the merrier.

Manners maketh the man.

The best defence is a good offence.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

Handsome is as handsome does.

Learn to walk before you run.

All good things come to those that wait.

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

A stitch in time saves nine.

April showers bring forth May flowers.

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

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Many hands make light work.

An army marches on its stomach.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

Let bygones be bygones.

A word to the wise is enough.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

Any port in a storm.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

There is no accounting for tastes.

Look before you leap.

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

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

Truth will out.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

You are what you eat.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

Money is the root of all evil.

Practice what you preach.

You can't fit a round peg in a square hole.

What can't be cured must be endured.

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

As you sow, so you shall reap.

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

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

A fool and his money are soon parted.

There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

What goes around comes around.

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

Don't upset the apple-cart.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

If the cap fits, wear it.

Count your blessings.

When one door shuts, another opens.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

East, west, home's best.

One hand washes the other.

It's better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

Even a worm will turn.

You can't take it with you.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

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