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Truth is stranger than fiction
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Truth is more valuable if it takes you a few years to find it – often attributed to French author Jules Renard
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Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows fall behind you
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Two birds with one stone
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Two can play at that game
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Two heads are better than one
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Two is company, but three is a crowd
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Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
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United we stand, divided we fall
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Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter
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Use it or lose it
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Ugly is as ugly does
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Up a creek without a paddle
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United we bargain; divided we beg
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Unity is strength
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Variety is the spice of life. William Cowper, English poet
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Virtue is its own reward
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Walk softly but carry a big stick
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Walls have ears
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Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs
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Waste not, want not
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Well begun is half done
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What does not kill me makes me stronger
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Well done is better than well said
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What cannot be cured must be endured
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What goes around, comes around
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What goes up must come down
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What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts
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What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander
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What is the worst that can happen?
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What the eye does not see
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When in Rome,
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Whatever floats your boat
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When it rains it pours
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When life gives you lemons, make lemonade
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When the cat is away, the mice will play
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going
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When the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash; when the ash is before the oak, then you may expect a soak
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When you have seen one, you have seen them all
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What is learnt in the cradle lasts to the tombs
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What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over
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Where there is a will there is a way
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Where there is muck there is brass
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Where there is life there is hope
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Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right
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While there is life there is hope
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Who will bell the cat?
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Whom the Gods love die young
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Why keep a dog and bark yourself?
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With great power comes great responsibility
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Woe to the vanquished
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Woman is the root of both good and evil
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Wonders will never cease
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Work expands so as to fill the time available
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Worrying never did anyone any good
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You are never too old to learn
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You are what you eat
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You can have too much of a good thing
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You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink
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You can never/never can tell
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You cannot always get what you want
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You cannot burn a candle at both ends.
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You cannot have your cake and eat it too
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You cannot get blood out of a stone
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You cannot make a silk purse from a sow's ear
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You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs
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You cannot make bricks without straw
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You cannot push a rope
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You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
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You cannot unscramble eggs
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You cannot win them all
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You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
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You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain
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You pay your money and you take your choice
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Youth is wasted on the young
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You may/might as well be hanged/hung for a sheep as
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You must have rocks in your head
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You scratch my back and I will scratch yours
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You only live once.
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You'll never get if you never go
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You're never fully dressed without a smile
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You've got to separate the wheat from the chaff
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You've made your bed and you must lie in/on it
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Zeal without knowledge is fire without light
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