Bad news travels fast.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

What goes up must come down.

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

It's easy to be wise after the event.

There's no place like home.

The bigger, the better.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

The best-laid plans go astray.

Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.

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

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Many hands make light work.

Big fish eat little fish.

Time is money.

A cat may look at a king.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

Go the extra mile.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

You are what you eat.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

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

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

All things must pass.

April showers bring forth May flowers.

The wages of sin is death.

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

Learn to walk before you run.

If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

It takes one to know one.

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

Beat swords into ploughshares.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

Revenge is sweet.

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

Strike while the iron is hot.

Forewarned is forearmed.

Actions speak louder than words.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

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

A man is known by his friends.

If God had meant us to fly, he'd have given us wings.

One hand washes the other.