A soft answer turneth away wrath.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

You can't get blood out of a stone.

A poor worker blames the tools.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

Moderation in all things.

One good deed deserves another.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

Watch the doughnut, not the hole.

Time will tell.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

You can't run with the hare, and hunt with the hounds.

Each to their own.

Beauty is only skin deep.

If you build it, they will come.

Attack is the best form of defence.

One half of the world does not know how the other half lives.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

The exception which proves the rule.

A miss is as good as a mile.

Seize the day.

You are what you eat.

Get out while the getting is good.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Keep your powder dry.

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

The best defence is a good offence.

If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

Speak as you find.

Fight fire with fire.

Time is money.

Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.

It's better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse.

Knowledge is power.

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

Life begins at forty.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

Big fleas have little fleas upon their back to bite 'em.

The leopard does not change his spots.

Money is the root of all evil.

Haste makes waste.

Money talks.

Big fish eat little fish.

You are never too old to learn.

The customer is always right.

Give the Devil his due.

Never speak ill of the dead.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

Live and let live.

No rest for the wicked.

Patience is a virtue.

There is no accounting for tastes.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

It's the singer not the song.

Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer.

The best-laid plans go astray.

You can't make bricks without straw.

Do as I say, not as I do.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

Truth will out.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

There's no smoke without fire.

One swallow does not a summer make.

The pen is mightier than sword.

There's a time and a place for everything.

Seeing is believing.

Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don't.

Small things amuse small minds.

You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family.

Red sky at night shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning.

A cat may look at a king.

Oil and water don't mix.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

East is east, and west is west.

Crime doesn't pay.

A cat has nine lives.

He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing.

Bread always falls buttered side down.

Every dog has its day.

Don't spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

Opposites attract.

There is one law for the rich and another law for the poor.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

A new broom sweeps clean.

Good things come to those who wait.

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.