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

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

The best things in life are free.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

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

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

The early bird gets the worm.

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

Still waters run deep.

No man is an island.

An army marches on its stomach.

Manners maketh the man.

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

More haste, less speed.

The bigger, the better.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

Enough is enough.

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

All's well that ends well.

Life is what you make it.

The bread always falls buttered side down.

Don't shoot the messenger.

Marriages are made in heaven.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

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

Know which side your bread is buttered.

Home is where the heart is.

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

Don't rock the boat.

Crime doesn't pay.

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

Don't let the cat out of the bag.

He who hesitates is lost.

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

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

Get out while the getting is good.

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

Actions speak louder than words.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

Live and let live.

To every thing there is a season.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

Silence construes consent.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

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

As you sow, so you shall reap.

Needs must when the devil drives.

There's an exception to every rule.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

When in Rome, do as Romans do.

Never go to bed on an argument.

Business before pleasure.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

Wonders will never cease.

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

Always put your best foot forward.

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

Tomorrow is another day.

Charity begins at home.

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

Quid pro quo.

Give credit where credit is due.

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

The leopard does not change his spots.

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

Give the Devil his due.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

Christmas comes but once a year.

You can't get blood out of a stone.

You are never too old to learn.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

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

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Many hands make light work.

There are two sides to every question.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

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

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

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

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

Hide in plain sight.

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

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

An man's home is his castle.

Little pitchers have big ears.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

A word to the wise is enough.

There's one born every minute.

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

Everyone has their price.

Appearances can be deceptive.

Misery loves company.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

Forgive and forget.

Nothing succeeds like success.

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

Even a worm will turn.

Slow but sure.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

A dog is a man's best friend.

In the midst of life we are in death.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Children should be seen and not heard.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Let the dead bury the dead.

If you build it, they will come.

Let bygones be bygones.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

For everything there is a season.

Love is blind.

Clothes do not make the man.

A prophet is not recognized in his own land.

Fight fire with fire.

Knowledge is power.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

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

Time will tell.

While there is life, there is hope.

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

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

Hope springs eternal.

Only the good die young.

Birds of a feather flock together.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Patience is a virtue.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

There's no smoke without fire.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

It never rains but it pours.

Small things amuse small minds.

Make haste slowly.

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

Different strokes for different folks.

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

A leopard can't change its spots.

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

The more the merrier.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

Faith will move mountains.

A good man is hard to find.

Time and tide wait for no one.

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

No pain, no gain.

The truth will out.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

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

You win some, you lose some.

Practice what you preach.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

The bottom line is the bottom line.

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

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

Slow and steady wins the race.

A cat may look at a king.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

It's easy to be wise after the event.

Forewarned is forearmed.

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

A problem shared is a problem halved.

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

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

A man is known by his friends.

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

Stupid is as stupid does.

Count your blessings.

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

Virtue is its own reward.

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

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

Keep your chin up.

Truth will out.

Handsome is as handsome does.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

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

Strike while the iron is hot.

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

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

All good things must come to an end.

You can have too much of a good thing.

What can't be cured must be endured.

Speak as you find.

Beware the Ides of March.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Seize the day.

Learn to walk before you run.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Another day, another dollar.

The longest journey starts with a single step.

Money makes the world go round.

It goes without saying.

Bad news travels fast.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

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

The Devil is in the details.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

Possession is nine points of the law.

Practice makes perfect.

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

A fish always rots from the head.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

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

Each to their own.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

East is east, and west is west.

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

One good deed deserves another.

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

Watch the doughnut, not the hole.

Love will find a way.

A stitch in time saves nine.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

The age of miracles is past.

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

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

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

The wages of sin is death.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

The Devil makes work for idle hands.

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

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

There's safety in numbers.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

Less is more.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Every dog has its day.

East, west, home's best.

Share and share alike.

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

Only fools and horses work.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

The apple never falls far from the tree.

The pen is mightier than sword.

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Waste not, want not.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Moderation in all things.

All that glitters is not gold.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

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

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

Grief divided is made lighter.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

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

Like father, like son.

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

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

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

The customer is always right.

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

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

Better late than never.

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

Money is the root of all evil.

Don't upset the apple-cart.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

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

Great minds think alike.

Make love not war.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

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

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Less said, soon mended.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

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

No rest for the wicked.

A picture paints a thousand words.

It takes one to know one.

Good things come in small packages.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

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

There is no accounting for tastes.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

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

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

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

Life begins at forty.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Tomorrow never comes.

Empty bags cannot stand upright.

Revenge is sweet.

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

Better safe than sorry.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Don't change horses in midstream.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

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

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

Youth is wasted on the young.

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

Variety is the spice of life.

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

When the cat's away the mice will play.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

You reap what you sow.

All roads lead to Rome.

Once a thief, always a thief.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

When one door shuts, another opens.

If you can't be good, be careful.

A poor worker blames the tools.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

What goes around comes around.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

You are what you eat.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Man does not live by bread alone.

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

It's the singer not the song.

A thing begun is half done.

There's a time and a place for everything.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

Cheats never prosper.

It's all grist to the mill.

Curiosity killed the cat.

April showers bring forth May flowers.

One hand washes the other.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

If the cap fits, wear it.

Never give a sucker an even break.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

Attack is the best form of defence.

Don't get mad, get even.

Pearls of wisdom.

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

Fish and guests smell after three days.

God helps those who help themselves.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

Beggars can't be choosers.

No news is good news.

No man can serve two masters.

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

The show must go on.

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

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

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

Flattery will get you nowhere.

Love makes the world go round.

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

Don't meet troubles half-way.

Fair exchange is no robbery.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

A house is not a home.

The best-laid plans go astray.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

Never tell tales out of school.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Laughter is the best medicine.

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

History repeats itself.

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

Oil and water don't mix.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

Persuasion is better than force.

Do as I say, not as I do.

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

Good talk saves the food.

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

First things first.

Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.

Honesty is the best policy.

Fortune favours the brave.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

Shrouds have no pockets.

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

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

Half a loaf is better than none.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

Never speak ill of the dead.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

A golden key can open any door.

Cold hands, warm heart.

Haste makes waste.

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

Penny wise and pound foolish.

First come, first served.

It's better to give than to receive.

Fight the good fight.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

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

Two heads are better than one.

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

It's never too late to mend.

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

You can't take it with you.

A new broom sweeps clean.

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

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

Nothing new under the sun.

If you play with fire, you will get burnt.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

Blood is thicker than water.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

The Devil looks after his own.

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

First impressions are the most lasting.

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

Go the extra mile.

All good things come to those that wait.

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

A cat has nine lives.

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

The end justifies the means.

Big fish eat little fish.

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

Time flies.

Put your best foot forward.

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

Every picture tells a story.

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Third time lucky.

Seeing is believing.

You can't win them all.

What goes up must come down.

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

Bread always falls buttered side down.

You can't always get what you want.

Time is a great healer.

Seek and you shall find.

Look before you leap.

The exception which proves the rule.

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

You can't make bricks without straw.

A miss is as good as a mile.

Love of money is the root of all evil.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

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

Many are called, but few are chosen.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

Money isn't everything.

There's no fool like an old fool.

All publicity is good publicity.

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

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

The Devil has all the best tunes.

Easy come, easy go.

Don't throw good money after bad.

Physician, heal thyself.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Children and fools tell the truth.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Money talks.

Horses for courses.

Worrying never did anyone any good.

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

It's best to be on the safe side.

Once bitten, twice shy.

All's fair in love and war.

Walls have ears.