“No other success can compensate for failure in the home.”
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“Where there’s life, there’s hope.” Grover, Sesame Street
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“Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.”
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.”
“The days are long, but the years are short.”
My all-time favorite, which my grandmother had hanging in her kitchen: “It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.”
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“I hate Tuesdays !” (From the movie Terminal). We say it when things that were supposed to happen don’t happen. 
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Which is also in that other thread about most annoying words and phrases:
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Under promise and over deliver.
Agree and love not my circus, not my monkeys.
Treat others as you want to be treated.
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Perhaps the appropriate reply here is another adage then
…to each their own!
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You can’t cure stupid!
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A man’s reach should exceed his grasp.
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Every stick has two ends.
Life isn’t fair.
My dad erased my saying “that’s not fair” from my vocabulary as a young child.
Lack of preparation on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.
You can’t put the s%&$ back in the donkey (sounds better in Italian).
Better to be silent and thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
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“We need to light a shuck,” meaning hurry. My dad has always said that. I’ve never heard anyone else use the expression, but I do.
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I just read something from Carolyn Hax. I can’t remember exactly what she said, but something like
“Help them think, don’t think for them.”
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Be a goldfish–Ted Lasso
Be curious. Not judgemental.
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Let’s blow this pop stand. I think it’s a Midwestern expression (meaning “let’s leave”).
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This is what Hax wrote today, about a parent with an adult daughter: “Even when she asks you directly, ask for her perspective first. Bite on a stick. You’re here to help her think, not to think for her. The figuring out is more instructive than even the best advice.”
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We’ll burn that bridge when we come to it
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Franklin is just so quotable I can’t resist adding: Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
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Sorry is something you do, not something you say
You don’t know what you know until you know it (reference to guessing medical results)
let go or be dragged
Look back, but don’t stare (Tom Petty)
You look with your eyes, not with your hands
if the wind does not suffice, take the oars
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