Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Different strokes for different folks.

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

Time will tell.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

Don't upset the apple-cart.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

Life is what you make it.

April showers bring forth May flowers.

Don't throw good money after bad.

Possession is nine points of the law.

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

There's one born every minute.

There's no fool like an old fool.

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

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

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

It's better to give than to receive.

All publicity is good publicity.

Everyone has their price.

Needs must when the devil drives.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

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

The best things in life are free.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

Great minds think alike.

The customer is always right.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

A cat has nine lives.

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

Know which side your bread is buttered.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

A poor worker blames the tools.

A stitch in time saves nine.

Stupid is as stupid does.

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

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

Tomorrow is another day.

No news is good news.

A watched pot never boils.

The Devil looks after his own.

Forewarned is forearmed.

Life begins at forty.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Many are called, but few are chosen.

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

Let the punishment fit the crime.

Never speak ill of the dead.

Every dog has its day.

Once a thief, always a thief.

Cold hands, warm heart.

Don't shoot the messenger.

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

Birds of a feather flock together.

A good man is hard to find.

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Revenge is sweet.

Dead men tell no tales.

The bread always falls buttered side down.

The longest journey starts with a single step.

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Make haste slowly.

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

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

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

Money is the root of all evil.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

Fight the good fight.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

It's easy to be wise after the event.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

Live and learn.

There's no time like the present.

The end justifies the means.

Half a loaf is better than none.

Bad money drives out good.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Never give a sucker an even break.

The leopard does not change his spots.

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

Haste makes waste.

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

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

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

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

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

Love of money is the root of all evil.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

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

A thing begun is half done.

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

A prophet is not recognized in his own land.

The truth will out.

There is no accounting for tastes.

You can't make bricks without straw.

Don't get mad, get even.

It's all grist to the mill.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Make hay while the sun shines.

Good fences make good neighbours.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

History repeats itself.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

It never rains but it pours.

Many hands make light work.

Appearances can be deceptive.

A leopard can't change its spots.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

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

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

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

Never go to bed on an argument.

Every picture tells a story.

Penny wise and pound foolish.

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

To err is human; to forgive divine.

Actions speak louder than words.

First impressions are the most lasting.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

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

Less said, soon mended.

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

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

Let sleeping dogs lie.

A golden key can open any door.

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

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Life's not all beer and skittles.

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

Speak as you find.

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

Don't mix business with pleasure.

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

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

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Christmas comes but once a year.

All good things must come to an end.

Give the Devil his due.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

What goes around comes around.

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

Silence is golden.

Waste not, want not.

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

Man does not live by bread alone.

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

The age of miracles is past.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

Misery loves company.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

The Devil is in the details.

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

Even a worm will turn.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

Live and let live.

Virtue is its own reward.

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

Fair exchange is no robbery.

You can have too much of a good thing.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

A fish always rots from the head.

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

The bottom line is the bottom line.

It's never too late to mend.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Look before you leap.

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

Any port in a storm.

Better safe than sorry.

Moderation in all things.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Manners maketh the man.

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

Let the dead bury the dead.

The Devil makes work for idle hands.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

A man is known by his friends.

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

Time flies.

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

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

The wages of sin is death.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

There is honour among thieves.

Paddle your own canoe.

Shrouds have no pockets.

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

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

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

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

If the cap fits, wear it.

Once bitten, twice shy.

Laughter is the best medicine.

To the victor go the spoils.

Pride comes before a fall.

Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

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

Less is more.

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

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

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

You can't take it with you.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

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

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

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

Might is right.

Youth is wasted on the young.

The exception which proves the rule.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Grief divided is made lighter.

Quid pro quo.

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

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

Time and tide wait for no one.

Silence construes consent.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

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

Time is a great healer.

Don't meet troubles half-way.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

There's safety in numbers.

Tomorrow never comes.

Two heads are better than one.

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

The best defence is a good offence.

Nine tailors make a man.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

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

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Learn to walk before you run.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

East, west, home's best.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Cheats never prosper.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Persuasion is better than force.

More haste, less speed.

You are what you eat.

It takes one to know one.

The apple never falls far from the tree.

Get out while the getting is good.

Another day, another dollar.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Variety is the spice of life.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

Charity begins at home.

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Pearls of wisdom.

One good deed deserves another.

All things must pass.

A cat may look at a king.

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

Talk is cheap.

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

Hide in plain sight.

Flattery will get you nowhere.

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

All that glitters is not gold.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

There's no place like home.

Seeing is believing.

Give credit where credit is due.

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

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

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Beggars can't be choosers.

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

A new broom sweeps clean.

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

Strike while the iron is hot.

Physician, heal thyself.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

Blood is thicker than water.

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

If you build it, they will come.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

Big fish eat little fish.

The more the merrier.

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

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

What can't be cured must be endured.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

Slow and steady wins the race.

The pen is mightier than sword.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Home is where the heart is.

Attack is the best form of defence.

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

Little strokes fell great oaks.

You win some, you lose some.

You reap what you sow.

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

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

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

Blessed are the peacemakers.

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

Fish and guests smell after three days.

All good things come to those that wait.

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

Practice what you preach.

The bigger, the better.

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

A word to the wise is enough.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

A bad penny always turns up.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

There are two sides to every question.

Opposites attract.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

Like father, like son.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

Always put your best foot forward.

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

Don't rock the boat.

Bread always falls buttered side down.

Keep your chin up.

Curiosity killed the cat.

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

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

Seek and you shall find.

A person is known by the company they keep.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Never tell tales out of school.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

Crime doesn't pay.

An man's home is his castle.

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

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

You are never too old to learn.

Fortune favours the brave.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

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

Enough is enough.

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

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

Go the extra mile.

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

Only the good die young.

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

Empty bags cannot stand upright.

Good talk saves the food.

Let bygones be bygones.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

It's the singer not the song.

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

Make love not war.

What goes up must come down.

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

When the cat's away the mice will play.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

Little pitchers have big ears.

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

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

All roads lead to Rome.

Only fools and horses work.

The best-laid plans go astray.

Nothing new under the sun.

East is east, and west is west.

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

Good things come in small packages.

Count your blessings.

One hand washes the other.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

Don't change horses in midstream.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

Horses for courses.

The show must go on.

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

Do as I say, not as I do.

You can't win them all.

Each to their own.

The Devil has all the best tunes.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

Clothes do not make the man.

Easy come, easy go.

There's an exception to every rule.

While there is life, there is hope.

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

Accidents will happen.

The early bird gets the worm.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Practice makes perfect.

Forgive and forget.

First come, first served.

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

For everything there is a season.

An army marches on its stomach.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

A picture paints a thousand words.

Time is money.

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

All you need is love.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

You can't always get what you want.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

There's no smoke without fire.

Money isn't everything.

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

Fight fire with fire.

Watch the doughnut, not the hole.

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

Knowledge is power.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

You can't get blood out of a stone.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Let the buyer beware.

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

Discretion is the better part of valour.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Love will find a way.

Better late than never.

In the midst of life we are in death.

Still waters run deep.

No man can serve two masters.

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

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

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

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

Worrying never did anyone any good.

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

Children should be seen and not heard.

Keep your powder dry.

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

If you play with fire, you will get burnt.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

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

Patience is a virtue.

Share and share alike.

When in Rome, do as Romans do.

Money talks.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

Faith will move mountains.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

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

God helps those who help themselves.

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

It takes two to tango.

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

When one door shuts, another opens.

All's fair in love and war.

It's best to be on the safe side.

Truth will out.

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

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

Don't put the cart before the horse.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

A house is not a home.

No man is an island.

There's a time and a place for everything.

Business before pleasure.

Good things come to those who wait.

All the world loves a lover.

First things first.

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

One swallow does not a summer make.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

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

Wonders will never cease.