It's a cracked pitcher that goes longest to the well. You have to crawl before you can walk. A burnt child dreads fire You can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. Why have a dog and bark yourself?
Not worth ! you wont get. Make yourself worthy. (Manu MR) The problem with alcohol is sobriety. Don't take any wooden nickels. Honey catches more flies than vinegar. It ain't over till it's over. Money talks.
A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat. Noblesse oblige. You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Grow where you are planted. Little things mean a lot When the cat's away, the mice will play. Hawks will not pick out hawks' eyes. Long experience of someone or something can make one so aware of the faults as to be scornful. In for a penny, in for a pound.
Life's a bleach and then you dye. Play on 'An apple a day keeps the doctor away' Handsome is as handsome does. Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
Variant: When the gods want to punish us they answer our prayers. --Oscar Wilde Don't trudge mud into the house of love. Great minds think alike, but fools seldom differ. Simple minds think alike. (William Truong) Never shove your Granny when she's shaving. A miss by an inch is a miss by a mile. While the cat is away, the mice will play.
Possible Interpretation: All style and no substance. Possible Interpretation: A need kept a secret will never be addressed. He who laughs last laughs longest. Success is a journey not a destination. Give and take is fair play. From the Christian New Testament
You can't grease a pig so many times that he can't be greased one more time. Keep no more cats than catch mice. You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. Never eat the yellow snow. A Frank Zappa song. A picture is worth a thousand words, and yet picture books are for infants.
Think before you speak. ^... and it takes a simpler mind to notice Christian New Testament Those who lost dreaming are lost. Hair of the dog that bit you.First come, first served
Well begun is half done. It ain't over till it's over. All that glistens is not gold. To kill two birds with one stone. He who sleeps forgets his hunger. Talk of the devil - and the devil appears. Every dog has its day. From the Christian New Testament