A storm in a teacup

Necessity is the mother of invention

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open

Appearances are deceitful

Salt water and absence wash away love

Haste makes waste

An apple a day keeps the doctor away

A honey tongue, a heart of gall

Once bitten, twice shy

Little strokes fell great oaks

All sugar and honey

To put (set) the cart before the horse

He that will thrive, must rise at five

He that has a full purse never wanted a friend

Enough is as good as a feast

If you want a thing well done, do it yourself

Shallow streams make most din

If you cannot have the best, make the best of what you have

He who pleased everybody died before he was born

Dog eats dog

Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

Such carpenters, such chips

One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine

Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him

Time works wonders

If we can't as we would, we must do as we can

He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much

What the heart thinks the tongue speaks

Neither rhyme nor reason

Every country has its customs