Fasting comes after feasting. The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love. Last, but not least. The last drop makes the cup run over. The last straw breaks the camel's back. Proverbs are the wisdom of the streets. And what are proverbs but the public voice. If you laugh before breakfast you'll cry before supper. Look before you leap. Look before you leap, but having leapt never look back. Take counsel of your pillow. Haste makes waste. Hasty climbers have sudden falls. Nothing must be done hastily but killing of fleas. Quick choice - long repentance. Dot your i's and cross your t's. Do as you would be done by. Do as you would be done by. Actions speak louder than words. Lost time is never found again. Sink or swim!. In for a penry, in for a pound. Praise is no pudding. Praise makes good men better and bad men worse. Claw me, an i will claw thee. Great boast, small roast. As like as two peas. Scratch my back and I will scratch yours. "Almost" never killed a fly. Jest with an ass and he will flap you in the face with his tail. Truth is stronger than fiction. The truth will out. Truth comes out of the mouths of babes and sucklings. Truth lies at the bottom of a well. Truth filters through stone. Diet cures more than lancet. Idleness is the root of all evil. Idleness rusts the mind. An idle brain is the devil's workshop. Practice makes perfect. Catch the bear before you sell his skin. Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs. Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him. Learn to creep before you leap. All things are difficult before they are easy. Before one can say Jack Robinson. A fair face may hide a foul heart. Fine words butter no parsnips. When candles are out all cats are grey. When queen Ann was alive. Cut your coat according to your cloth. Necessity makes even timid brave. Custom is the second nature. Habit is a second nature. A fault confessed is half redressed. Confession is good for the soul. Diligence is the mother of success. Example is better than precept. Take things as you find them. Take the rough with the smooth. Take us as you find us. Nature abhors a vacuum. Nature is stronger than rearing. Needs must when the devil drives. Pleasant hours fly fast. If you sell the cow, you sell the milk too. Curses like chickens come home to roost. A miss is as good as a mile. Procrastination is the thief of time. Delays are dangerous. A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his own house. Forgive and forget. Praise is not pudding. A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of seeds. The beaten road is the safest. Stretch your legs according to your coverlet. Prosperity discovers vice, adversity virtue. Prosperity makes friends, and adversity tries them. The strength of the chain is in its weakest link. Out of sight, out of mind. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. A bird may be known by its song. A bird may be known by its flight. A bird is known by its note and a man by his talk. Birds in their little nests agree. Birds of a feather flock together. He that is full of himself is very empty. An empty hand is no lure for a hawk.