Don't bite off more than you can chew.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

The Devil makes work for idle hands.

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

Learn to walk before you run.

Time is money.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

Paddle your own canoe.

No rest for the wicked.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

All's fair in love and war.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

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

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

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

Might is right.

There's no time like the present.

Waste not, want not.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Little pitchers have big ears.

Keep your chin up.

Once bitten, twice shy.

Laughter is the best medicine.

All things must pass.

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

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

The exception which proves the rule.

There is no accounting for tastes.

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

Revenge is sweet.

Get out while the getting is good.

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

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

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

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

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

Time is a great healer.

God helps those who help themselves.

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

You can have too much of a good thing.

Handsome is as handsome does.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

There's an exception to every rule.

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

A bad penny always turns up.

Don't rock the boat.

A man is known by his friends.

Grief divided is made lighter.

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

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

The wages of sin is death.

Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

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

A poor worker blames the tools.

It takes two to tango.

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

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

Good talk saves the food.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

Life begins at forty.

You are what you eat.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

Man does not live by bread alone.

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

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

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

Don't blow your own trumpet.

All that glitters is not gold.

Silence construes consent.

Less is more.

Like father, like son.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

The bigger, the better.

Children should be seen and not heard.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Needs must when the devil drives.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

Don't meet troubles half-way.

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

Let bygones be bygones.

As you sow, so you shall reap.

First come, first served.

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

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

A word to the wise is enough.

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

A person is known by the company they keep.

It's the singer not the song.

Don't get mad, get even.

Big fish eat little fish.

You can't make bricks without straw.

Live and let live.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

East is east, and west is west.

Charity begins at home.

Physician, heal thyself.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

It's better to give than to receive.

The show must go on.

Clothes do not make the man.

A prophet is not recognized in his own land.

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

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

All roads lead to Rome.

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

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

Love will find a way.

Home is where the heart is.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

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

Better late than never.

Fish and guests smell after three days.

Fair exchange is no robbery.

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

Cold hands, warm heart.

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

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Watch the doughnut, not the hole.

Good things come to those who wait.

Keep your powder dry.

You reap what you sow.

A new broom sweeps clean.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

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

Blood is thicker than water.

Better safe than sorry.

Never give a sucker an even break.

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

Every dog has its day.

Practice makes perfect.

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

Forewarned is forearmed.

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Shrouds have no pockets.

Fight the good fight.

Manners maketh the man.

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

Silence is golden.

Appearances can be deceptive.

Patience is a virtue.

Fortune favours the brave.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Let well alone.

Only fools and horses work.

Love makes the world go round.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Make love not war.

If you can't be good, be careful.

Don't upset the apple-cart.

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

No pain, no gain.

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

No news is good news.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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

It's all grist to the mill.

Practice what you preach.

Don't change horses in midstream.

Seize the day.

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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

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

Out of sight, out of mind.

It never rains but it pours.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Hide in plain sight.

Count your blessings.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

If the cap fits, wear it.

The best defence is a good offence.

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

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

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

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

The apple never falls far from the tree.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

You are never too old to learn.

Time and tide wait for no one.

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

Don't sweat the small stuff.

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

Quid pro quo.

The more the merrier.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Different strokes for different folks.

You can't take it with you.

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

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

He who hesitates is lost.

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

All you need is love.

Another day, another dollar.

A miss is as good as a mile.

The bread always falls buttered side down.

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

Oil and water don't mix.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

Time will tell.

More haste, less speed.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

There's no fool like an old fool.

You win some, you lose some.

The best-laid plans go astray.

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

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

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

Beat swords into ploughshares.

Don't mix business with pleasure.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

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

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

The best is the enemy of the good.

No man can serve two masters.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

The end justifies the means.

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

It's easy to be wise after the event.

Everyone has their price.

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

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

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

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

Money talks.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

Children and fools tell the truth.

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

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

Misery loves company.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Good things come in small packages.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Make hay while the sun shines.

What goes up must come down.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

There's one born every minute.

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

April showers bring forth May flowers.

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

Seek and you shall find.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

Love is blind.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

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

What can't be cured must be endured.

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

Pearls of wisdom.

A cat may look at a king.

Let the buyer beware.

Nothing new under the sun.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

Look before you leap.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

There are two sides to every question.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Bad news travels fast.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Even a worm will turn.

All publicity is good publicity.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

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

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

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

Make haste slowly.

The longest journey starts with a single step.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

Half a loaf is better than none.

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

When one door shuts, another opens.

All good things come to those that wait.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Flattery will get you nowhere.

One swallow does not a summer make.

Pride comes before a fall.

Life is what you make it.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

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

Empty bags cannot stand upright.

Give the Devil his due.

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Fight fire with fire.

Beggars can't be choosers.

Speak as you find.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

Many hands make light work.

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

Possession is nine points of the law.

The early bird gets the worm.

A leopard can't change its spots.

While there is life, there is hope.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Christmas comes but once a year.

Marriages are made in heaven.

Strike while the iron is hot.

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

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

Seeing is believing.

A good man is hard to find.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

You can't get blood out of a stone.

Bread always falls buttered side down.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

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

There's a time and a place for everything.

The age of miracles is past.

Dead men tell no tales.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

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

Curiosity killed the cat.

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

No man is an island.

The leopard does not change his spots.

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

Beware the Ides of March.

An army marches on its stomach.

Every stick has two ends.

Small things amuse small minds.

If you play with fire, you will get burnt.

Go the extra mile.

A thing begun is half done.

Crime doesn't pay.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

Less said, soon mended.

Attack is the best form of defence.

Let the dead bury the dead.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

Nothing succeeds like success.

In the midst of life we are in death.

The best things in life are free.

Share and share alike.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Penny wise and pound foolish.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

A watched pot never boils.

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

Forgive and forget.

A stitch in time saves nine.

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

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

Life's not all beer and skittles.

Tomorrow is another day.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

The customer is always right.

A fish always rots from the head.

Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

Nine tailors make a man.

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

There's safety in numbers.

Third time lucky.

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

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

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

Put your best foot forward.

All good things must come to an end.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Truth will out.

A problem shared is a problem halved.

All's well that ends well.

Wonders will never cease.

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

East, west, home's best.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

Only the good die young.

First things first.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Money makes the world go round.

Time flies.

A golden key can open any door.

Money isn't everything.

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

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

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

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

Never tell tales out of school.

Business before pleasure.

Talk is cheap.

Each to their own.

Know which side your bread is buttered.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

Easy come, easy go.

A dog is a man's best friend.

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

A picture paints a thousand words.

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

Great minds think alike.

To the victor go the spoils.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

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

You can't judge a book by its cover.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

Still waters run deep.

Cheats never prosper.

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

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

Live and learn.

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

Don't let the cat out of the bag.

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

There's no place like home.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

There is honour among thieves.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

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

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

Birds of a feather flock together.

Bad money drives out good.

Never go to bed on an argument.

First impressions are the most lasting.

All the world loves a lover.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

You can't always get what you want.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

It's best to be on the safe side.

Opposites attract.

Don't shoot the messenger.

To every thing there is a season.

Slow but sure.

Always put your best foot forward.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Do as I say, not as I do.

A house is not a home.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

History repeats itself.

Two heads are better than one.

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

Haste makes waste.

Once a thief, always a thief.

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

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

Don't throw good money after bad.

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

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

Good fences make good neighbours.

The bottom line is the bottom line.

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

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

Enough is as good as a feast.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

Hope springs eternal.

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

Moderation in all things.

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

The truth will out.

Horses for courses.

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

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

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

Honesty is the best policy.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.

You can't win them all.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Walls have ears.

Variety is the spice of life.