If at first you don't succeed, don't try skydiving.
Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Beauty is as beauty does.
The proof is in the pudding. (One of my mother's favourites talking about how you can't judge a cow until she's had a calf).
Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
Take a polaroid, it lasts longer.
If you always tell the truth you never have to remember anything.
My Grandmother always used to quote Shakespeare. "All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players, they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts..." I still say "Bubble, bubble toil and trouble, cauldron burn and cauldron bubble" everytime I boil water, wonder if it is as annoying for my husband as it can be for me?!