"We've put the cart before the egg"
"The theft of invention is the mother and father of a lie"
"...a square peg in a round poke"
"If at first you don't succeed, then the mountain must go to Mahomed"
"Time is the procrastination of thieves"
"I want the whole thing caught in the bud"
"Have I put the cat in the china shop?"
"The pigeons are well and truly out of the bag"
"A leopard never changes his spots twice in the same place"
"You've opened a whole new can of pots, calling the kettle by another name"
"A rose by any other name sometimes changes its spots"
"We're putting the cart before the trees"
"So I'm sent to Birmingham?"
"People who live in glass houses shouldn't cast beams into the moat"
"We couldn't see the broth for the trees because of all the cooks"
These quotes come from Wikiquote's The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin pages and are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.