Stupid is as stupid does.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

Count your blessings.

You can't make bricks without straw.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

Never go to bed on an argument.

The early bird gets the worm.

Nothing new under the sun.

A person is known by the company they keep.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

Forewarned is forearmed.

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

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

Enough is enough.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Bad money drives out good.

Don't cross a bridge until you come to it.

Do as I say, not as I do.

The best defence is a good offence.

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

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

Revenge is sweet.

Pride comes before a fall.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

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

Let well alone.

Life is what you make it.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

Virtue is its own reward.

Beauty is only skin deep.

All good things come to those that wait.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

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

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

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

No news is good news.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Don't upset the apple-cart.

The bottom line is the bottom line.

When one door shuts, another opens.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

One good deed deserves another.

Don't shoot the messenger.

Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

Time is money.

Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Good fences make good neighbours.

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

All roads lead to Rome.

Actions speak louder than words.

There is one law for the rich and another law for the poor.

What goes up must come down.

Time is a great healer.

Great minds think alike.

Moderation in all things.

Appearances can be deceptive.

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

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

Those who do not learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.

Honesty is the best policy.

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

You can't have your cake and eat it too.

All the world loves a lover.

Don't mix business with pleasure.

Get out while the getting is good.

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

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

You can't always get what you want.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

The age of miracles is past.

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

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

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

It takes all sorts to make a world.

March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

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

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

Make love not war.

Keep your chin up.

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

Give the Devil his due.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

Still waters run deep.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

God helps those who help themselves.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Waste not, want not.

Flattery will get you nowhere.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.

Cowards die many times before their deaths.