One hand washes the other.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

The best-laid plans go astray.

Knowledge is power.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

The best defence is a good offence.

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

For everything there is a season.

Tomorrow is another day.

Hope springs eternal.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

A house is not a home.

Give credit where credit is due.

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

Bad money drives out good.

Flattery will get you nowhere.

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

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

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

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

Virtue is its own reward.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

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

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

What can't be cured must be endured.

Wonders will never cease.

Youth is wasted on the young.

It goes without saying.

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

Pearls of wisdom.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

A cat has nine lives.

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

Live and let live.

Learn to walk before you run.

A miss is as good as a mile.

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

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

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

There is no accounting for tastes.

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

Enough is enough.

Worrying never did anyone any good.

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

You are never too old to learn.

Little pitchers have big ears.

Once a thief, always a thief.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Beauty is only skin deep.

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

Beggars can't be choosers.

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Let the dead bury the dead.

The wages of sin is death.

There's a time and a place for everything.

Any port in a storm.

Every stick has two ends.

Cold hands, warm heart.

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

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

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

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

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

Many are called, but few are chosen.

All publicity is good publicity.

Bread always falls buttered side down.

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

Christmas comes but once a year.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

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

Even a worm will turn.

A problem shared is a problem halved.

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

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

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

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

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

First come, first served.

Less is more.

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

Two heads are better than one.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

Physician, heal thyself.

More haste, less speed.

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

Get out while the getting is good.

First impressions are the most lasting.

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

The early bird gets the worm.

What goes around comes around.

A person is known by the company they keep.

Only the good die young.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

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

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

Patience is a virtue.

You win some, you lose some.

Easy come, easy go.

Curiosity killed the cat.

Needs must when the devil drives.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

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

There's an exception to every rule.

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

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

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

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

Clothes do not make the man.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

Practice makes perfect.

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

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

Good talk saves the food.

The bread always falls buttered side down.

Love makes the world go round.

Look before you leap.

A bad penny always turns up.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

There's no place like home.

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

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

When one door shuts, another opens.

All's fair in love and war.

First things first.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

There is honour among thieves.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

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

Make hay while the sun shines.

Half a loaf is better than none.

Count your blessings.

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

Tomorrow never comes.

Let the buyer beware.

It takes two to tango.

Make haste slowly.

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

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

He who hesitates is lost.

Might is right.

No news is good news.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

No man is an island.

Paddle your own canoe.

A man is known by his friends.

It's better to give than to receive.

To every thing there is a season.

Honesty is the best policy.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

Don't upset the apple-cart.

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

All you need is love.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

If you build it, they will come.

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

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

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

Let well alone.

Forgive and forget.

One good deed deserves another.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

Quid pro quo.

No pain, no gain.

Hide in plain sight.

Charity begins at home.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

The Devil looks after his own.

Different strokes for different folks.

Silence construes consent.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Business before pleasure.

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

A cat may look at a king.

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

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

It's easy to be wise after the event.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

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

A thing begun is half done.

Keep your chin up.

Small things amuse small minds.

Appearances can be deceptive.

Money talks.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

Good fences make good neighbours.

A watched pot never boils.

Let bygones be bygones.

As you sow, so you shall reap.

Love of money is the root of all evil.

Grief divided is made lighter.

Many hands make light work.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

The customer is always right.

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

Time and tide wait for no one.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

Better late than never.

Don't get mad, get even.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

Children should be seen and not heard.

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

Don't blow your own trumpet.

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

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

The longest journey starts with a single step.

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

Enough is as good as a feast.

Money isn't everything.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

Home is where the heart is.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

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

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

April showers bring forth May flowers.

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

Good things come to those who wait.

Time is money.

A dog is a man's best friend.

It's never too late to mend.

Fair exchange is no robbery.

The show must go on.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Horses for courses.

Slow but sure.

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

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

All's well that ends well.

Nine tailors make a man.

The apple never falls far from the tree.

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

Manners maketh the man.

The bigger, the better.

A good man is hard to find.

The bottom line is the bottom line.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Life begins at forty.

Misery loves company.

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

Accidents will happen.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

Money makes the world go round.

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Another day, another dollar.

The leopard does not change his spots.

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

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

You can't take it with you.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

One swallow does not a summer make.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

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

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

If you play with fire, you will get burnt.

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

Make love not war.

You can't get blood out of a stone.

The Devil makes work for idle hands.

To the victor go the spoils.

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

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

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

Never speak ill of the dead.

Always put your best foot forward.

Dead men tell no tales.

Love will find a way.

The best things in life are free.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Cheats never prosper.

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

God helps those who help themselves.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Great minds think alike.

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

It takes all sorts to make a world.

There's no fool like an old fool.

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

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Handsome is as handsome does.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

Talk is cheap.

Children and fools tell the truth.

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

The Devil has all the best tunes.

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

Fortune favours the brave.

Life's not all beer and skittles.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Don't mix business with pleasure.

The more the merrier.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

Oil and water don't mix.

Possession is nine points of the law.

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

Moderation in all things.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

You can have too much of a good thing.

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

Birds of a feather flock together.

Go the extra mile.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

The best is the enemy of the good.

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

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

A word to the wise is enough.

Every dog has its day.

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

Don't cast pearls before swine.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

The age of miracles is past.

Live and learn.

History repeats itself.

Walls have ears.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

Practice what you preach.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Big fish eat little fish.

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

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

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

There's no smoke without fire.

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

Share and share alike.

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

It takes one to know one.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Only fools and horses work.

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

Each to their own.

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

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

All good things must come to an end.

Good things come in small packages.

All things must pass.

A fish always rots from the head.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Never go to bed on an argument.

Bad news travels fast.

Don't change horses in midstream.

While there is life, there is hope.

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

Give the Devil his due.

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

Crime doesn't pay.

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

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

Time is a great healer.

Laughter is the best medicine.

It's all grist to the mill.

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

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

A prophet is not recognized in his own land.

In the midst of life we are in death.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

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

Nature abhors a vacuum.

All roads lead to Rome.

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

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

Faith will move mountains.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

Pride comes before a fall.

Haste makes waste.

Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.

Beware the Ides of March.

Seek and you shall find.

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

Truth will out.

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

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

Man does not live by bread alone.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

Speak as you find.

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

Persuasion is better than force.

Nothing new under the sun.

What goes up must come down.

The Devil is in the details.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

Like father, like son.

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

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

A leopard can't change its spots.

Still waters run deep.

All that glitters is not gold.

Fight the good fight.

Every picture tells a story.

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

It never rains but it pours.

Blood is thicker than water.

A stitch in time saves nine.

Everyone has their price.

A poor worker blames the tools.

Waste not, want not.

Ignorance is bliss.

Put your best foot forward.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

A golden key can open any door.

Less said, soon mended.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

Empty bags cannot stand upright.

Seeing is believing.

Nothing succeeds like success.

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

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

You are what you eat.

Third time lucky.

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

Forewarned is forearmed.

The exception which proves the rule.

If the cap fits, wear it.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

It's the singer not the song.

Attack is the best form of defence.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Keep your powder dry.

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

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

Seize the day.

Don't rock the boat.

Once bitten, twice shy.

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

You can't make bricks without straw.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Revenge is sweet.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

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

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

It's best to be on the safe side.

An army marches on its stomach.

Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

Don't meet troubles half-way.

Do as I say, not as I do.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

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

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

You can't always get what you want.

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

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

Time flies.

There's safety in numbers.

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

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

Life's not all beer and skittles.

A picture paints a thousand words.

East is east, and west is west.

There's no time like the present.

Fish and guests smell after three days.