Proverbs

Never look a gift horse in the mouth

What will be will be.
Que sera sera
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What goes around comes around.
If it's meant for you it won't pass you by.

You catch more flies with honey.

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

A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush

It's a sorry mouse that has but one hole (no, I don't know what it means either!)

People in playhouses shouldn't throw stones

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.
Stir with a knife, stir up strife.

Don't count your chickens

Sorry for typos - but you get my drift!

Don’t look a gift horse on the moith

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

Don't praise the day until sunset
The children of lovers are orphans (not so much a proverb as a truism)
E'en the richest man should save a little.

And whakatauaki from te ao Maori:

Marry a man with calloused hands. (marry a hard worker)
With your food basket and my food basket we can feed everyone (working together is the best way)
If you bow your head, let it be to a lofty mountain.
(show respect to those who deserve it)

And one heard in all major speeches.
"He aha te mea nui o tea ao? He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."

What is the most important thing in the world? It is people, people, people.

Sticks and stones will break my bones but words can never hurt me. ???????

A broken crayon still colours.

This is my current favourite one.

Don't jump your fences before you get to them. ( beloved of lawyers I believe)

There is nowt as queer as folk.

'We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars'.

When poverty comes through the window, love goes out the door

Why spoil a ship for a ha'porth of tar

One man's meat is another man's poison

Ne'er cast a cloud til May is out. ( tree not month?)

All you can expect from a pig is a grunt

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.