A new broom sweeps clean.

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

The best-laid plans go astray.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

The bottom line is the bottom line.

It's better to be poor and healthy, than sick and wealthy.

Variety is the spice of life.

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Shrouds have no pockets.

Let the dead bury the dead.

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

Fortune favours the brave.

There's none so deaf as those who will not hear.

Bread always falls buttered side down.

April showers bring forth May flowers.

Pride comes before a fall.

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

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

Great minds think alike.

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

No news is good news.

Don't upset the apple-cart.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Time is money.

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

As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it.

You can't run with the hare, and hunt with the hounds.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

For everything there is a season.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

Good things come to those who wait.

Waste not, want not.

Don't mix business with pleasure.

Life begins at forty.

You reap what you sow.

You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family.

All good things must come to an end.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.

Haste makes waste.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Seeing is believing.

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

The apple never falls far from the tree.

Crime doesn't pay.

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

Life's not all beer and skittles.

An man's home is his castle.

Paddle your own canoe.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

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

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

A bad penny always turns up.

Make love not war.

Make hay while the sun shines.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Red sky at night shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning.

A cat has nine lives.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Know which side your bread is buttered.

What goes around comes around.

It takes two to tango.

You can't win them all.

There's no smoke without fire.

Grief divided is made lighter.

Only fools and horses work.

Laughter is the best medicine.

Every dog has its day.

Physician, heal thyself.

There's an exception to every rule.

If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers.

Opposites attract.

A golden key can open any door.

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

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Let bygones be bygones.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

Forewarned is forearmed.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

Hide in plain sight.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Needs must when the devil drives.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse.

All's fair in love and war.

He who hesitates is lost.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

Home is where the heart is.

You can't always get what you want.