An eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

A word to the wise is enough.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

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

First impressions are the most lasting.

Never go to bed on an argument.

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

Dead men tell no tales.

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

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

Enough is as good as a feast.

Forgive and forget.

Be careful what you wish for. You might just get it.

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

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

It never rains but it pours.

Paddle your own canoe.

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

Bread always falls buttered side down.

There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

A good man is hard to find.

The truth will out.

Know which side your bread is buttered.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Every picture tells a story.

Waste not, want not.

The customer is always right.

Go the extra mile.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

Every stick has two ends.

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Penny wise and pound foolish.

Even a worm will turn.

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.

Bad money drives out good.

Worrying never did anyone any good.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

The longest journey starts with a single step.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.

No news is good news.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

The bread always falls buttered side down.

Make haste slowly.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Appearances can be deceptive.

Opposites attract.

To the victor go the spoils.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Slow but sure.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

You reap what you sow.

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

Tomorrow is another day.

Wonders will never cease.

It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

The pen is mightier than sword.

The age of miracles is past.

There's one born every minute.

If God had meant us to fly, he'd have given us wings.

There's a time and a place for everything.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

Less is more.

Where there's a will, there's a way.

The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.

Hide in plain sight.

Crime doesn't pay.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

There's none so blind as those who will not see.

The apple never falls far from the tree.

There's no smoke without fire.

Make love not war.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Possession is nine points of the law.

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

Money talks.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

Still waters run deep.

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

It's the empty can that makes the most noise.

Everyone has their price.

There's no place like home.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

To every thing there is a season.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes one healthy, wealthy and wise.

East, west, home's best.

Hope springs eternal.

There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.

Quid pro quo.

There's more than one way to skin a cat.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

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

Don't change horses in midstream.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

Practice makes perfect.

An army marches on its stomach.

Money isn't everything.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

Easy come, easy go.

A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Walls have ears.

Ignorance is bliss.

All you need is love.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

Time will tell.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

The Devil has all the best tunes.

Moderation in all things.

Fight the good fight.

No man can serve two masters.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

Keep your powder dry.

All things must pass.

To live by the sword is to die by the sword.

Only the good die young.

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

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

The best-laid plans go astray.

It's better to give than to receive.

If the cap fits, wear it.

Cheats never prosper.

Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

It's no use shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.

Count your blessings.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Shrouds have no pockets.

The wages of sin is death.

Pearls of wisdom.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Home is where the heart is.

A person is known by the company they keep.

A watched pot never boils.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

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

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

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

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

God helps those who help themselves.

Children and fools tell the truth.

There is honour among thieves.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

If you can't be good, be careful.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Haste makes waste.

East is east, and west is west.

Any port in a storm.

Seek and you shall find.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

Honesty is the best policy.

Don't test the depth of water with both feet.

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

When one door shuts, another opens.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

Time and tide wait for no one.

The exception which proves the rule.

In the midst of life we are in death.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Every dog has its day.

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

Laughter is the best medicine.

Good talk saves the food.

Fair exchange is no robbery.

There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.

All roads lead to Rome.

Once a thief, always a thief.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

History repeats itself.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

If you build it, they will come.

Nothing new under the sun.

Don't meet troubles half-way.

Better safe than sorry.

Live and learn.

No pain, no gain.

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

It ain't over, till it's over.

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

The early bird gets the worm.

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

Half a loaf is better than none.

A cat has nine lives.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

You can't take it with you.

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it.

Accidents will happen.

If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.

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

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

It's never too late to mend.

A miss is as good as a mile.

All good things come to those that wait.

Little pitchers have big ears.

No rest for the wicked.

Don't get mad, get even.

Strike while the iron is hot.

A thing begun is half done.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

You can't always get what you want.

Make hay while the sun shines.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

The more the merrier.

It's better to be poor and healthy, than sick and wealthy.

The Devil makes work for idle hands.

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

It's better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

Another day, another dollar.

It's easy to be wise after the event.

Empty bags cannot stand upright.

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

Curiosity killed the cat.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

Revenge is sweet.

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

What can't be cured must be endured.

A dog is a man's best friend.

Pride comes before a fall.

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

What goes around comes around.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

There's an exception to every rule.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Horses for courses.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

Life begins at forty.

What goes up must come down.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Misery loves company.

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

There are two sides to every question.

Get out while the getting is good.

Money makes the world go round.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Each to their own.

Two heads are better than one.

There's none so deaf as those who will not hear.

What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

First things first.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

There's no time like the present.

There's no fool like an old fool.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

It's better to wear out, than to rust.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

Small things amuse small minds.

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

Don't mix business with pleasure.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

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

Knowledge is power.

If the mountain won't come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain.

Seeing is believing.

You can't fit a round peg in a square hole.

When in Rome, do as Romans do.

Let the buyer beware.

Learn to walk before you run.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

Beauty is only skin deep.

All's well that ends well.

A man is known by his friends.

Clothes do not make the man.

Blood is thicker than water.

Good things come in small packages.

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

The leopard does not change his spots.

While the cat's away, the mice will play.

Fortune favours the brave.

More haste, less speed.

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

Third time lucky.

Business before pleasure.

Life is what you make it.

There are none so blind as those, that will not see.

A cat may look at a king.

Virtue is its own reward.

Truth will out.

All the world loves a lover.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

One who sups with the devil, should have a long spoon.

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

You can't get blood out of a stone.

Don't upset the apple-cart.

In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king.

Don't rock the boat.

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

A poor worker blames the tools.

Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

A stitch in time saves nine.

One swallow does not a summer make.

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

Children should be seen and not heard.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Christmas comes but once a year.

Time is money.

Time flies.

For everything there is a season.

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

It's the singer not the song.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

Fish and guests smell after three days.

Good fences make good neighbours.

Give the Devil his due.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

Handsome is as handsome does.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

The best defence is a good offence.

You are what you eat.

Love of money is the root of all evil.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

It takes two to tango.

March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

Watch the doughnut, not the hole.

It's best to be on the safe side.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

Might is right.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

You can't make bricks without straw.

A bad penny always turns up.

Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.

Love makes the world go round.

Talk is cheap.

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

Bad news travels fast.

Put your best foot forward.

Let bygones be bygones.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.

Needs must when the devil drives.

All publicity is good publicity.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

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

If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well.

Less said, soon mended.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Many are called, but few are chosen.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

Live and let live.

Look before you leap.

A problem shared is a problem halved.

Love will find a way.

The end justifies the means.

The bigger, the better.

Let well alone.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

It goes without saying.

Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.

Patience is a virtue.

Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.

Tomorrow never comes.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

Speak as you find.

The best is the enemy of the good.

No man is an island.

Better late than never.

Once bitten, twice shy.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

Let the dead bury the dead.

Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

The show must go on.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

Always put your best foot forward.

If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

A ship in the harbour is safe, but that is not what a ship is for.

Faith will move mountains.

Money is the root of all evil.

Persuasion is better than force.

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

Big fish eat little fish.

The best things in life are free.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

Love is blind.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

A new broom sweeps clean.

Silence is golden.

Don't shoot the messenger.

Don't throw good money after bad.

A leopard can't change its spots.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

It's an ill wind that blows no one any good.

Do as I say, not as I do.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

All that glitters is not gold.

One law for the rich and another law for the poor.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Those who do not learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.

Silence construes consent.

You can have too much of a good thing.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

It takes one to know one.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

All's fair in love and war.

One hand washes the other.

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't want.

Don't let the cat out of the bag.

Practice what you preach.

Fight fire with fire.

If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen.

Different strokes for different folks.

Marriages are made in heaven.

Enough is enough.

You can't have your cake and eat it too.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

Like father, like son.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Time is a great healer.

Forewarned is forearmed.

Don't cross a bridge until you come to it.

Never give a sucker an even break.

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

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

As you sow, so you shall reap.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

All good things must come to an end.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Physician, heal thyself.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

Keep your chin up.

Variety is the spice of life.

If you play with fire, you will get burnt.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

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

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

There is no accounting for tastes.

Give them an inch and they'll take a mile.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

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

One man's meat is another man's poison.

If the cap fits, wear it.