There's one born every minute.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

What can't be cured must be endured.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

Once a thief, always a thief.

A fish always rots from the head.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

All that glitters is not gold.

Quid pro quo.

One person's trash is another person's treasure.

Keep your powder dry.

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

Never go to bed on an argument.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

Give credit where credit is due.

Don't upset the apple-cart.

The bigger, the better.

Don't let the cat out of the bag.

Life is what you make it.

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

Nine tailors make a man.

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

Might is right.

More haste, less speed.

There's no time like the present.

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

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

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

Variety is the spice of life.

Fair exchange is no robbery.

Honesty is the best policy.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Any port in a storm.

Once bitten, twice shy.

Truth will out.

The Devil is in the details.

There's no smoke without fire.

A thing begun is half done.

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Patience is a virtue.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

Love makes the world go round.

What goes around comes around.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

Money isn't everything.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Good things come in small packages.

Revenge is sweet.

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

It takes two to tango.

It goes without saying.

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

A place for everything and everything in its place.

In the midst of life we are in death.

A picture paints a thousand words.

If you build it, they will come.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

A watched pot never boils.

Nothing new under the sun.

You can have too much of a good thing.

Share and share alike.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

There's no fool like an old fool.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

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

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

Don't change horses in midstream.

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

The best defence is a good offence.

Faith will move mountains.

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

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

You can't win them all.

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

There's an exception to every rule.

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

There's a time and a place for everything.

Handsome is as handsome does.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

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

Waste not, want not.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Bad news travels fast.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

Tomorrow never comes.

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

Appearances can be deceptive.

Keep your chin up.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

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

Every cloud has a silver lining.

One good deed deserves another.

Little pitchers have big ears.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

Every stick has two ends.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

Practice what you preach.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Hide in plain sight.

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

Don't shoot the messenger.

Children should be seen and not heard.

Life begins at forty.

Laughter is the best medicine.

Don't mix business with pleasure.

It's better to give than to receive.

Pride comes before a fall.

It's never too late to mend.

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

Beggars can't be choosers.

Seeing is believing.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

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

For everything there is a season.

Beauty is only skin deep.

Let the buyer beware.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Another day, another dollar.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Small things amuse small minds.

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

Never give a sucker an even break.

All the world loves a lover.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Penny wise and pound foolish.

You win some, you lose some.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

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

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Hope springs eternal.

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

All you need is love.

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

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

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

Live and let live.

The Devil looks after his own.

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

Less said, soon mended.

The pen is mightier than sword.

He who hesitates is lost.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

Never tell tales out of school.

First come, first served.

All roads lead to Rome.

Dead men tell no tales.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

All's fair in love and war.

Love is blind.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

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

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Live and learn.

Don't meet troubles half-way.

History repeats itself.

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

No man can serve two masters.

One swallow does not a summer make.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

You can't take it with you.

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

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Time and tide wait for no one.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

No pain, no gain.

While there is life, there is hope.

Marriages are made in heaven.

Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear.

Go the extra mile.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

A prophet is not recognized in his own land.

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

Every picture tells a story.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

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

Persuasion is better than force.

The longest journey starts with a single step.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

Actions speak louder than words.

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

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

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

Nature abhors a vacuum.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

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

Life's not all beer and skittles.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

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

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

The leopard does not change his spots.

Tomorrow is another day.

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

The customer is always right.

Cold hands, warm heart.

A leopard can't change its spots.

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

The best-laid plans go astray.

A good man is hard to find.

The exception which proves the rule.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

The show must go on.

To every thing there is a season.

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

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

Good fences make good neighbours.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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

If the cap fits, wear it.

Home is where the heart is.

The truth will out.

There is no accounting for tastes.

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

Truth is stranger than fiction.

Learn to walk before you run.

Different strokes for different folks.

The bottom line is the bottom line.

Only fools and horses work.

A cat has nine lives.

Possession is nine points of the law.

Love will find a way.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

Horses for courses.

You are what you eat.

Like father, like son.

When one door shuts, another opens.

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

Time will tell.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

Enough is as good as a feast.

Christmas comes but once a year.

No rest for the wicked.

God helps those who help themselves.

All things must pass.

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

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

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

When in Rome, do as Romans do.

Look before you leap.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

A house is not a home.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Paddle your own canoe.

The more the merrier.

Less is more.

Don't get mad, get even.

First things first.

An man's home is his castle.

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

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

You reap what you sow.

Opposites attract.

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

Beat swords into ploughshares.

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

Silence construes consent.

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

The best is the enemy of the good.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Fortune favours the brave.

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

It takes one to know one.

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

It's all grist to the mill.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

Many are called, but few are chosen.

Put your best foot forward.

Silence is golden.

Don't throw good money after bad.

The bread always falls buttered side down.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

Money makes the world go round.

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

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

An army marches on its stomach.

Oil and water don't mix.

Knowledge is power.

Talk is cheap.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

Attack is the best form of defence.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.

The wages of sin is death.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

Birds of a feather flock together.

Do as I say, not as I do.

The early bird gets the worm.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

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

Easy come, easy go.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

Haste makes waste.

Love of money is the root of all evil.

Virtue is its own reward.

Needs must when the devil drives.

Forgive and forget.

Ignorance is bliss.

You can't make bricks without straw.

April showers bring forth May flowers.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

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

Many hands make light work.

Curiosity killed the cat.

Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.

East, west, home's best.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Watch the doughnut, not the hole.

Fish and guests smell after three days.

Slow but sure.

It's the singer not the song.

As you sow, so you shall reap.

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

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

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

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

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

All good things come to those that wait.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

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

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

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

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

Seek and you shall find.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

A new broom sweeps clean.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

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

One hand washes the other.

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Out of sight, out of mind.

A problem shared is a problem halved.

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

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

When the cat's away the mice will play.

The best things in life are free.

There is honour among thieves.

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

Let the dead bury the dead.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

Shrouds have no pockets.

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

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

No man is an island.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

Pearls of wisdom.

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

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

A golden key can open any door.

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

A cat may look at a king.

If you play with fire, you will get burnt.

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

Make haste slowly.

Always put your best foot forward.

Everyone has their price.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Never speak ill of the dead.

Time is money.

Better safe than sorry.

Charity begins at home.

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

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

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

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

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

Make hay while the sun shines.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Crime doesn't pay.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

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

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

Empty bags cannot stand upright.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

There are two sides to every question.

Business before pleasure.

Don't rock the boat.

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

No news is good news.

Speak as you find.

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

Flattery will get you nowhere.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

A miss is as good as a mile.

Cheats never prosper.

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

A bad penny always turns up.

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

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Time is a great healer.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Physician, heal thyself.

A stitch in time saves nine.

Give the Devil his due.

You can't always get what you want.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

All's well that ends well.

It's easy to be wise after the event.

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

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

The Devil has all the best tunes.

Accidents will happen.

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

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

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

Man does not live by bread alone.

Money is the root of all evil.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Get out while the getting is good.

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

To the victor go the spoils.

Don't throw good money after bad.

Moderation in all things.

All publicity is good publicity.

It never rains but it pours.

Bad money drives out good.

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

Know which side your bread is buttered.

Strike while the iron is hot.

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

You are never too old to learn.

Still waters run deep.

The Devil makes work for idle hands.

All good things must come to an end.

Two heads are better than one.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

Let bygones be bygones.

Grief divided is made lighter.

Better late than never.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

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

First impressions are the most lasting.

Manners maketh the man.

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

Bread always falls buttered side down.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Let well alone.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

A person is known by the company they keep.

It's never too late to mend.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Great minds think alike.

Count your blessings.

Don't put new wine into old bottles.