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

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

A thing begun is half done.

Cheats never prosper.

It's no use shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.

Oil and water don't mix.

There are two sides to every question.

Forgive and forget.

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

There's no fool like an old fool.

Knowledge is power.

While the cat's away, the mice will play.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

Might is right.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

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

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

Paddle your own canoe.

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

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

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

You can't win them all.

While there is life, there is hope.

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

Put your best foot forward.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

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

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

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

All good things must come to an end.

Third time lucky.

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

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

Live and let live.

Youth is wasted on the young.

A dog is a man's best friend.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

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

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

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

Time will tell.

A watched pot never boils.

No man can serve two masters.

Keep your chin up.

The bottom line is the bottom line.

As you sow, so you shall reap.

Accidents will happen.

Man does not live by bread alone.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

It ain't over, till it's over.

All that glitters is not gold.

You can't make bricks without straw.

All you need is love.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

Silence construes consent.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

It's better to give than to receive.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

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

Dead men tell no tales.

Love will find a way.

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

There's no place like home.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

A golden key can open any door.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

If you build it, they will come.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

All the world loves a lover.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

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

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Many are called, but few are chosen.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

The truth will out.

Don't let the cat out of the bag.

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

You are what you eat.

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

It's best to be on the safe side.

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

Learn to walk before you run.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Make hay while the sun shines.

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

Patience is a virtue.

Attack is the best form of defence.

Persuasion is better than force.