For want of a nail the shoe was lost for want of a shoe the horse was lost and for want of a horse the man was lost.Fools rush in (where angels fear to tread).Fish and guests smell after three days.Fish always rots from the head downwards.First impressions are the most lasting.False friends are worse than open enemies.Faint heart never won fair lady (Scott),.Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.Every man for himself ( and the Devil take the hindmost).Even from a foe a man may learn wisdom.Eat, drink and be merry, (for tomorrow we die).Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.East is east, and west is west (and never the twain shall meet).Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), polymath and Founding Father of the United States Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.Do not sympathize with those who can not empathize.Do not wash your dirty linen in public.Do not try to walk before you can crawl.Do not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Do not teach your Grandmother to suck eggs.Do not spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar.Do not shut/lock the stable door after the horse has bolted.Do not put off until tomorrow what you can do today.Do not put all your eggs in one basket.Do not make a mountain out of a mole hill.Do not look a gift horse in the mouth.Do not let the grass grow beneath (one's) feet.Do not cut off your nose to spite your face.Do not cross the bridge till you come to it.Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.Discretion is the better part of valour.Cut your coat according to your cloth.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

Cowards may die many times before their death.

Courage is the measure of a Man, Beauty is the measure of a Woman.

Children should be seen and not heard.

Cheese, wine, and friends must be old to be good.

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

Born with a silver spoon in one's mouth.

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

Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Better the Devil you know (than the Devil you do not).

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Behind every great man, there is a great woman.

Ask a silly question and you will get a silly answer.

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

April showers bring forth May flowers.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

An Englishman's home is his castle/A man's home is his castle.

Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948), leader of the Indian independence movement

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821), military leader and Emperor of France

All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

All that glitters/glistens is not gold,.

All good things come to him who waits.

Accidents will happen (in the best-regulated families).

A ship in a harbour is safe, but that's not what a ship is for.

A mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

A friend to everyone is a friend to no one.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

The cure alone with you