"The early bird catches a cold"
"...burnt your cakes..."
"Not that I'm counting my chickens before they spoil the broth"
"Never look a gift horse in the bush"
"...the exception that closes the stable door"
"Nine's company, ten's a crowd"
"I'm drawn to clichés like a moth to a long lane"
"I don't want to pour cold water on a wet blanket"
"That's the fly in the woodpile"
"We'll cross those legs when we come to them"
"Correct me if I've got the wrong end of the gist"
"You can't tell a book by its silver lining"
"That's the pot calling the kettle a horse of a different colour"
"The night is always darker before the mast"
"If at first you don't succeed, you'll catch the early worm"
These quotes come from Wikiquote's The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin pages and are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.