Fine words butter no parsnips.

Another day, another dollar.

Needs must when the devil drives.

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

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

Fortune favours the brave.

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

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

Honesty is the best policy.

The Devil makes work for idle hands.

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

All things must pass.

Christmas comes but once a year.

To live by the sword is to die by the sword.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.

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

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

No man is an island.

Be careful what you wish for. You might just get it.

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen.

Tomorrow never comes.

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

The longest journey starts with a single step.

Good things come in small packages.

Actions speak louder than words.

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

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

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

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

The truth will out.

Everyone has their price.

It's easy to be wise after the event.

Fight the good fight.

Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don't.

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

Half a loaf is better than none.

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

The bottom line is the bottom line.

It takes two to tango.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Enough is enough.

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

Persuasion is better than force.

Little strokes fell great oaks.