Little pitchers have big ears.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

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

Bad news travels fast.

Once bitten, twice shy.

The bottom line is the bottom line.

Better safe than sorry.

Small things amuse small minds.

Put your best foot forward.

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

Home is where the heart is.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

It's best to be on the safe side.

Paddle your own canoe.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

To every thing there is a season.

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

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

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

It never rains but it pours.

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Know which side your bread is buttered.

There's no fool like an old fool.

Fight fire with fire.

Time is a great healer.

A good man is hard to find.

Third time lucky.

Virtue is its own reward.

Bad money drives out good.

Beauty is only skin deep.

No news is good news.

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

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

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Good fences make good neighbours.

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

The show must go on.

Children and fools tell the truth.

A cat may look at a king.

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

Tomorrow is another day.

A bad penny always turns up.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

The Devil is in the details.

Life begins at forty.

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

Walls have ears.

Still waters run deep.

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

When the cat's away the mice will play.

Don't get mad, get even.

Let well alone.

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

Never give a sucker an even break.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

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

A dog is a man's best friend.

The best-laid plans go astray.

There are two sides to every question.

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

What goes up must come down.

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

There's a time and a place for everything.

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

Tomorrow never comes.

Love makes the world go round.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

Cheats never prosper.

First things first.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

Flattery will get you nowhere.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

All's fair in love and war.

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

Knowledge is power.

Needs must when the devil drives.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Every picture tells a story.

Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

An man's home is his castle.

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

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

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

The Devil looks after his own.

A thing begun is half done.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

Learn to walk before you run.

There's one born every minute.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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

Give credit where credit is due.

Empty bags cannot stand upright.

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

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

You can have too much of a good thing.

Many hands make light work.

Two heads are better than one.

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

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

All things must pass.

Let the dead bury the dead.

More haste, less speed.

Might is right.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

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

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

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

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

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

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

Don't upset the apple-cart.

The Devil makes work for idle hands.

The leopard does not change his spots.

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

An army marches on its stomach.

Laughter is the best medicine.

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

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

When in Rome, do as Romans do.

Patience is a virtue.

Oil and water don't mix.

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

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

Penny wise and pound foolish.

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

Beggars can't be choosers.

You can't make bricks without straw.

The customer is always right.

The best defence is a good offence.

You can't get blood out of a stone.

Opposites attract.

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

Charity begins at home.

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

Time will tell.

Money talks.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Look before you leap.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

Pride comes before a fall.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Seize the day.

Silence is golden.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Clothes do not make the man.

April showers bring forth May flowers.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

What can't be cured must be endured.

Don't meet troubles half-way.

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

A good beginning makes a good ending.

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

If you play with fire, you will get burnt.

One swallow does not a summer make.

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Bread always falls buttered side down.

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

It takes one to know one.

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

Nine tailors make a man.

A problem shared is a problem halved.

Once a thief, always a thief.

A man is known by his friends.

You are what you eat.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

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

Beat swords into ploughshares.

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

Fair exchange is no robbery.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Strike while the iron is hot.

The best things in life are free.

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

A watched pot never boils.

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

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

A leopard can't change its spots.

What goes around comes around.

Time flies.

Curiosity killed the cat.

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

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

The exception which proves the rule.

Hide in plain sight.

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

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

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

Slow but sure.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

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

A little of what you fancy does you good.

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

Make love not war.

Love is blind.

No pain, no gain.

In the midst of life we are in death.

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

Cold hands, warm heart.

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

Attack is the best form of defence.

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

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Enough is enough.

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

Shrouds have no pockets.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

All you need is love.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

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

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

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

Seek and you shall find.

Fish and guests smell after three days.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

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

God helps those who help themselves.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

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

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

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

A stitch in time saves nine.

History repeats itself.

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

Possession is nine points of the law.

It's easy to be wise after the event.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Watch the doughnut, not the hole.

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

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

The end justifies the means.

Never go to bed on an argument.

First impressions are the most lasting.

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

Beware the Ides of March.

Silence construes consent.

The age of miracles is past.

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

Easy come, easy go.

Get out while the getting is good.

All publicity is good publicity.

Seeing is believing.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

East is east, and west is west.

Hope springs eternal.

Time and tide wait for no one.

It takes two to tango.

No man can serve two masters.

There's no place like home.

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

No man is an island.

East, west, home's best.

Actions speak louder than words.

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Live and learn.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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

Man does not live by bread alone.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

There is honour among thieves.

Ignorance is bliss.

Different strokes for different folks.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

To the victor go the spoils.

There is no accounting for tastes.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

One good deed deserves another.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

Always put your best foot forward.

Good things come to those who wait.

A word to the wise is enough.

Don't mix business with pleasure.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Quid pro quo.

You can't take it with you.

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

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

No rest for the wicked.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

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

Let the punishment fit the crime.

Business before pleasure.

You can't always get what you want.

Moderation in all things.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Grief divided is made lighter.

Everyone has their price.

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

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Let the buyer beware.

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

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

For everything there is a season.

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

Into every life a little rain must fall.

Enough is as good as a feast.

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

Speak as you find.

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

A new broom sweeps clean.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

He who hesitates is lost.

Dead men tell no tales.

Count your blessings.

Love will find a way.

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

Haste makes waste.

Half a loaf is better than none.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

It's the singer not the song.

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

While there is life, there is hope.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Marriages are made in heaven.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Faith will move mountains.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

Only the good die young.

All that glitters is not gold.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

You win some, you lose some.

The bigger, the better.

Give the Devil his due.

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

Great minds think alike.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

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

When one door shuts, another opens.

A golden key can open any door.

Never speak ill of the dead.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

Misery loves company.

A poor worker blames the tools.

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

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

Honesty is the best policy.

Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.

You reap what you sow.

Every stick has two ends.

The longest journey starts with a single step.

Money is the root of all evil.

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

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

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

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

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

You are never too old to learn.

The more the merrier.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

Don't rock the boat.

The apple never falls far from the tree.

Like father, like son.

Children should be seen and not heard.

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

Accidents will happen.

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

Money isn't everything.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Keep your powder dry.

The truth will out.

Wonders will never cease.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Worrying never did anyone any good.

Horses for courses.

A picture paints a thousand words.

Manners maketh the man.

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

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

Time is money.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

Let bygones be bygones.

It's never too late to mend.

All's well that ends well.

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

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

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

Never tell tales out of school.

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

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

Practice what you preach.

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

All good things come to those that wait.

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

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

There's safety in numbers.

Christmas comes but once a year.

Make hay while the sun shines.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

Blood is thicker than water.

All the world loves a lover.

It's all grist to the mill.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

Crime doesn't pay.

Go the extra mile.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

Stupid is as stupid does.

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

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

All good things must come to an end.

Good talk saves the food.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

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

Keep your chin up.

He who hesitates is lost.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

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

Talk is cheap.

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

Birds of a feather flock together.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

All roads lead to Rome.

The early bird gets the worm.

Big fish eat little fish.

You can't win them all.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

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

Life is what you make it.

Pearls of wisdom.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

A cat has nine lives.

As you sow, so you shall reap.

Practice makes perfect.

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

First come, first served.

Do as I say, not as I do.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Live and let live.

Life's not all beer and skittles.

One hand washes the other.

A person is known by the company they keep.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

Don't let the cat out of the bag.

Better late than never.

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

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

Tomorrow never comes.

If the cap fits, wear it.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

Physician, heal thyself.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Even a worm will turn.

Fortune favours the brave.

Fight the good fight.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.

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

Only fools and horses work.

A fish always rots from the head.

Forgive and forget.

Less said, soon mended.

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

There's no time like the present.

The pen is mightier than sword.

Charity covers a multitude of sins.