Grow where you are planted. Variant: No man can serve two masters, let alone mistresses. Hope is life. Don't trudge mud into the house of love. Just do it! (Nike slogan.)
Northern English, Anything for nothing... You can't take it with you. Whom we love best, to them we can say the least.
Too many chiefs and not enough indians. Whom we love best, to them we can say the least. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. A person is known by the company he keeps.
Meaner than a junk-yard dog. Like father like son. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. Beauty is only skin deep, but ugliness goes straight to the bone Diseases come on horseback, but steal away on foot. Give a dog a bad name and hang him.
See also Dorothy Parker: You can lead a horticulture, but you cannot make her think. Alternative Version: Be thankful of what youve got. If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Those who lost dreaming are lost. To kill two birds with one stone. Zebras aren't black and white, they are white and black. Paraphrased from The Mourning Bride, act i, scene i, by William Congreve. Actions speak louder than words.
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