Too much courtesy, too much craft.

Too much cunning overreaches itself.

Grasp all, lose all.
Pride goes before a fall.
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Necessity knows no law.
Empty vessels sound much.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
To the pure all things are pure.
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Cut your coat according to your cloth.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Morning shows the day.
One doth the scathe, another hath the scorn.
/ To cast pearls before swine.
/ To kill two birds with one stone.
To blow hot and cold in the same breath.

 It takes two to make a quarrel.

One swallow does not make a summer.
/ ? No pains, no gains.
Black will take no other hue.
, Strike the iron while it is hot.
To set a thief to catch a thief.
/ To add insult to injury.
, What is sports to the cat is death to the rat. OR , Nero
fiddles while Rome burns. OR, Some have the hop, some stick in the gap.
To rob Peter to pay Paul.
Let bygones, be bygones.
To count chickens before they are hatched.
A fool to others, himself a sage.
, Practice makes a man perfect.