You can't have your pound of flesh and eat it. Absence makes the heart go yonder. It's always dullest before the yawn. Truth is shorter than fiction. Truce is better than friction.
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
Birds of a feather flock to a newly-washed car. A garden is a thing of beauty and a job forever. A bachelor is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't. Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labour.