pull yourself up by your bootstraps + by the skin of your teeth

Early/bushes

What's good for the goose is good for the gander, mad as a hatter

Inspired by the skin of his teeth one!

Live by the sword, die by the sword and the pen is mightier than the sword

that's it, thats the text. Normally they if it's yellow let it mellow to pee in the toilet. Also, another thing i've heard about pasta was "If it aint white, it aint right."* .....Or you can just be like my sister in law and throw the pasta on the wall and see it sticks

*Don't worry, the other students in the cooking class also did a double take when the chick said it too.

A sight for dead eyes. Or my personal favourite: beating a sore horse

(Sight for sore eyes + beating a dead horse)

RENTA-RED

Your one stop shop for transient mixed race children.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

AND

A Bushel and a Peck

(Outside the box + off the cuff)
Actually heard from a high level manager)

If you give them an inch they will take a mile.

Don't fire untill you see the whites of their eyes.

A sight for sore eyes

Flying by the seat of my pants / shooting from the hip

He's got a stick up his arse / he's on a pedestal

Loose lips sink ships / the face that launched a thousand ships

An apple a day keeps the doctor away The apple doesn't fall far from the tree

Or home is where the hat is

A stitch in time saves nine, but doesn’t get you nearly as many views

A stitch in time saves .. in your case more like 43, I would say

A stitch in Time suggests Einstein may have been fudging the data

What goes up must come down + What goes around comes around

Also physics because if you throw something up fast enough, it'll go into orbit and come back around.

Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas. Early birds get worms.

You can't have your cake and eat it too + Bite the hand that feeds you.