It's easy to be wise after the event.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

Out of sight, out of mind.

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

Into every life a little rain must fall.

Good talk saves the food.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

Handsome is as handsome does.

Needs must when the devil drives.

The customer is always right.

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

Faint heart never won fair lady.

All you need is love.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

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

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

Pride comes before a fall.

Shrouds have no pockets.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Business before pleasure.

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

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Marriages are made in heaven.

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

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

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

Seek and you shall find.

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

Dead men tell no tales.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

A person is known by the company they keep.

Cheats never prosper.

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

A cat has nine lives.

The bottom line is the bottom line.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

Money makes the world go round.

The bread always falls buttered side down.

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

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

First impressions are the most lasting.

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

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

A watched pot never boils.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

All things must pass.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

There is no accounting for tastes.

Ignorance is bliss.

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

Great minds think alike.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

All's well that ends well.

Love is blind.

Live and learn.

Youth is wasted on the young.

There's no place like home.

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

A fish always rots from the head.

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

Patience is a virtue.

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

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

Get out while the getting is good.

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

First come, first served.

Seeing is believing.

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

Fair exchange is no robbery.

Nine tailors make a man.

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

Don't upset the apple-cart.

It's best to be on the safe side.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

East is east, and west is west.

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

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

The early bird gets the worm.

Make love not war.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

To every thing there is a season.

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

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

Life begins at forty.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Fortune favours the brave.

Only the good die young.

The best things in life are free.

Love will find a way.

Wonders will never cease.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

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

Grief divided is made lighter.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

The end justifies the means.

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

A leopard can't change its spots.

Empty bags cannot stand upright.

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

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

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

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

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

A stitch in time saves nine.

You win some, you lose some.

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

All's fair in love and war.

A house is not a home.

The Devil makes work for idle hands.

Blood is thicker than water.

You can't always get what you want.

Let the dead bury the dead.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Forgive and forget.

Slow and steady wins the race.

It's all grist to the mill.

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

Different strokes for different folks.

All publicity is good publicity.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Put your best foot forward.

Make hay while the sun shines.

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

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Life is what you make it.

Don't change horses in midstream.

Don't throw good money after bad.

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

Birds of a feather flock together.

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

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

The apple never falls far from the tree.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

All roads lead to Rome.

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

Hide in plain sight.

The wages of sin is death.

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

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

There's one born every minute.

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

Curiosity killed the cat.

Bad news travels fast.

Time and tide wait for no one.

Let bygones be bygones.

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Possession is nine points of the law.

Live and let live.

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

Don't shoot the messenger.

It goes without saying.

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

Strike while the iron is hot.

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

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

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Accidents will happen.

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

Speak as you find.

Virtue is its own reward.

Seize the day.

One swallow does not a summer make.

Appearances can be deceptive.

Beggars can't be choosers.

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

The Devil has all the best tunes.

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

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

Worrying never did anyone any good.

The exception which proves the rule.

If you play with fire, you will get burnt.

Moderation in all things.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.

Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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

Two heads are better than one.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Slow but sure.

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

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

The Devil is in the details.

Bad money drives out good.

Penny wise and pound foolish.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Share and share alike.

Clothes do not make the man.

Better late than never.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

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

Little strokes fell great oaks.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Less is more.

There's an exception to every rule.

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

Forewarned is forearmed.

Many are called, but few are chosen.

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

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

Crime doesn't pay.

The leopard does not change his spots.

Give the Devil his due.

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

Nothing new under the sun.

Once a thief, always a thief.

It's never too late to mend.

The longest journey starts with a single step.

Revenge is sweet.

You can't make bricks without straw.

Never speak ill of the dead.

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

Children should be seen and not heard.

You reap what you sow.

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

Charity begins at home.

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

It's better to give than to receive.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Go the extra mile.

Third time lucky.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

Know which side your bread is buttered.

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

When in Rome, do as Romans do.

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

All good things must come to an end.

All that glitters is not gold.

Don't meet troubles half-way.

Attack is the best form of defence.

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

While there is life, there is hope.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

Pearls of wisdom.

Christmas comes but once a year.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

The more the merrier.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

Money isn't everything.

Look before you leap.

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

You can't see the forest for the trees.

In the midst of life we are in death.

When one door shuts, another opens.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Another day, another dollar.

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

Time flies.

You are never too old to learn.

What can't be cured must be endured.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

Actions speak louder than words.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

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

An man's home is his castle.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

Opposites attract.

Make haste slowly.

Each to their own.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

Truth will out.

Knowledge is power.

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

It takes two to tango.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

A good man is hard to find.

Many hands make light work.

There's a time and a place for everything.

The Devil looks after his own.

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

A picture paints a thousand words.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

Children and fools tell the truth.

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

Fish and guests smell after three days.

Still waters run deep.

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

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

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

If the cap fits, wear it.

Don't mix business with pleasure.

Life's not all beer and skittles.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

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

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

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

Big fish eat little fish.

One hand washes the other.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

A thing begun is half done.

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

You can have too much of a good thing.

One good deed deserves another.

Quid pro quo.

A new broom sweeps clean.

There's no smoke without fire.

Enough is as good as a feast.

Laughter is the best medicine.

Learn to walk before you run.

Practice what you preach.

Walls have ears.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Hope springs eternal.

A man is known by his friends.

Home is where the heart is.

Horses for courses.

Man does not live by bread alone.

Always put your best foot forward.

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

For everything there is a season.

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

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

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

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Haste makes waste.

A miss is as good as a mile.

The truth will out.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

First things first.

Never go to bed on an argument.

Never tell tales out of school.

Love makes the world go round.

Time is money.

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

Silence is golden.

Good things come to those who wait.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

The bigger, the better.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

Beauty is only skin deep.

No man can serve two masters.

The show must go on.

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Talk is cheap.

Little pitchers have big ears.

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

If you build it, they will come.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

Tomorrow never comes.

Stupid is as stupid does.

God helps those who help themselves.

What goes around comes around.

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

You can't get blood out of a stone.

The pen is mightier than sword.

Don't let the cat out of the bag.

Tomorrow is another day.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

Don't rock the boat.

No rest for the wicked.

It's the singer not the song.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

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

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Keep your powder dry.

Like father, like son.

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

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

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

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

Everyone has their price.

History repeats itself.

Honesty is the best policy.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Count your blessings.

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

A dog is a man's best friend.

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

Fight fire with fire.

Love of money is the root of all evil.

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

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

Any port in a storm.

Oil and water don't mix.

He who hesitates is lost.

To the victor go the spoils.

Practice makes perfect.

No man is an island.

Money is the root of all evil.

Persuasion is better than force.

Half a loaf is better than none.

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

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

A poor worker blames the tools.

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

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

Silence construes consent.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Even a worm will turn.

Faith will move mountains.

Time is a great healer.

As you sow, so you shall reap.

Waste not, want not.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Do as I say, not as I do.

It never rains but it pours.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Every picture tells a story.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

There is honour among thieves.

More haste, less speed.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Better safe than sorry.

East, west, home's best.

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

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Let well alone.

Flattery will get you nowhere.

Don't get mad, get even.

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

Good fences make good neighbours.

A word to the wise is enough.

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

Once bitten, twice shy.

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

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

Every dog has its day.

Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

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

You are what you eat.

Manners maketh the man.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

There are two sides to every question.

There's no fool like an old fool.

Give credit where credit is due.

Beware the Ides of March.

Cold hands, warm heart.

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.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Only the good die young.

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

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

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

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

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

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

Every stick has two ends.

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

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

Variety is the spice of life.

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

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

Paddle your own canoe.

Less said, soon mended.

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

You can't take it with you.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

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