Time is money.

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

It takes two to tango.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Every dog has its day.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

Curiosity killed the cat.

Give credit where credit is due.

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

Children should be seen and not heard.

The Devil looks after his own.

The pen is mightier than sword.

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

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

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

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

Christmas comes but once a year.

A dog is a man's best friend.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

It takes one to know one.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Home is where the heart is.

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

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

Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

A poor worker blames the tools.

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

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

Money is the root of all evil.

Handsome is as handsome does.

All's well that ends well.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Time flies.

First come, first served.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

Knowledge is power.

Share and share alike.

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

Every picture tells a story.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

Seek and you shall find.

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

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

Make hay while the sun shines.

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

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Shrouds have no pockets.

You reap what you sow.

Less is more.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

All roads lead to Rome.

No news is good news.

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

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

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

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

The bigger, the better.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

A good man is hard to find.

April showers bring forth May flowers.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

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

Bread always falls buttered side down.

It goes without saying.

The Devil has all the best tunes.

All good things come to those that wait.

Out of sight, out of mind.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Grief divided is made lighter.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

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

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

You can't get blood out of a stone.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

It never rains but it pours.

Practice what you preach.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

Don't upset the apple-cart.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

Fight fire with fire.

You can't always get what you want.

A prophet is not recognized in his own land.

Time and tide wait for no one.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Watch the doughnut, not the hole.

Get out while the getting is good.

Beggars can't be choosers.

Honesty is the best policy.

Needs must when the devil drives.

A new broom sweeps clean.

If you can't be good, be careful.

Don't shoot the messenger.

Less said, soon mended.

Empty bags cannot stand upright.

Time will tell.

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

A person is known by the company they keep.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

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

Money talks.

Love of money is the root of all evil.

First things first.

Look before you leap.

Don't meet troubles half-way.

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

First impressions are the most lasting.

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

When in Rome, do as Romans do.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

Seeing is believing.

Worrying never did anyone any good.

Dead men tell no tales.

Know which side your bread is buttered.

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

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

There is honour among thieves.

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

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

An army marches on its stomach.

Put your best foot forward.

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

Moderation in all things.

Like father, like son.

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

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

Slow but sure.

Fortune favours the brave.

No man is an island.

It's the singer not the song.

In the midst of life we are in death.

Learn to walk before you run.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Half a loaf is better than none.

A golden key can open any door.

Business before pleasure.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

Every stick has two ends.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.

Accidents will happen.

Each to their own.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Love makes the world go round.

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

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

It's better to give than to receive.

No man can serve two masters.

Beware the Ides of March.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

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

Two heads are better than one.

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

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

Children and fools tell the truth.

A thing begun is half done.

A word to the wise is enough.

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

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

Third time lucky.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Quid pro quo.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

Don't get mad, get even.

Easy come, easy go.

Forewarned is forearmed.

Silence is golden.

No rest for the wicked.

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

Variety is the spice of life.

An man's home is his castle.

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

To every thing there is a season.

Live and let live.

Let bygones be bygones.

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

If the cap fits, wear it.

Good talk saves the food.

Even a worm will turn.

A fish always rots from the head.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

Truth will out.

Big fish eat little fish.

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

Everyone has their price.

More haste, less speed.

Keep your chin up.

Wonders will never cease.

Good things come in small packages.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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

It takes two to make a quarrel.

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

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

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

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

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

There's an exception to every rule.

Life is what you make it.

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

All things must pass.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

The best-laid plans go astray.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

Persuasion is better than force.

A miss is as good as a mile.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

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

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

Don't mix business with pleasure.

Speak as you find.

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

While there is life, there is hope.

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

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Better late than never.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

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

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

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

Flattery will get you nowhere.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

Clothes do not make the man.

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

You are never too old to learn.

What can't be cured must be endured.

Another day, another dollar.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

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

Penny wise and pound foolish.

The more the merrier.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

As you sow, so you shall reap.

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Once bitten, twice shy.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

Tomorrow never comes.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

Make love not war.

There's no time like the present.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

If you build it, they will come.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Man does not live by bread alone.

Love will find a way.

A cat may look at a king.

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

Small things amuse small minds.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

Walls have ears.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

Don't let the cat out of the bag.

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

Actions speak louder than words.

When one door shuts, another opens.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Time is a great healer.

A cat has nine lives.

A house is not a home.

Don't change horses in midstream.

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

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

Great minds think alike.

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

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

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

Let well alone.

The exception which proves the rule.

No pain, no gain.

Charity begins at home.

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

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

One good deed deserves another.

Only fools and horses work.

Good things come to those who wait.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

The bread always falls buttered side down.

Patience is a virtue.

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

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

It's never too late to mend.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

Better safe than sorry.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

Let the dead bury the dead.

Good fences make good neighbours.

It's easy to be wise after the event.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

Keep your powder dry.

You can't make bricks without straw.

Talk is cheap.

A picture paints a thousand words.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

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

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

Don't throw good money after bad.

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

Never give a sucker an even break.

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

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

Any port in a storm.

Make haste slowly.

For everything there is a season.

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

East is east, and west is west.

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

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Nothing new under the sun.

Let the buyer beware.

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

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

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

Attack is the best form of defence.

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

Manners maketh the man.

The show must go on.

There are two sides to every question.

Live and learn.

It's best to be on the safe side.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

Paddle your own canoe.

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

One swallow does not a summer make.

Marriages are made in heaven.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

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

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

A problem shared is a problem halved.

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

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

The early bird gets the worm.

The wages of sin is death.

Crime doesn't pay.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

Nine tailors make a man.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

A watched pot never boils.

Waste not, want not.

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

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

You can have too much of a good thing.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Bad news travels fast.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

Do as I say, not as I do.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

The bottom line is the bottom line.

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

Don't rock the boat.

The best is the enemy of the good.

You can't take it with you.

There's no smoke without fire.

History repeats itself.

Slow and steady wins the race.

All the world loves a lover.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

Life begins at forty.

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

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Bad money drives out good.

Life's not all beer and skittles.

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

There's safety in numbers.

Hope springs eternal.

Horses for courses.

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

Possession is nine points of the law.

All that glitters is not gold.

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

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

All publicity is good publicity.

Never go to bed on an argument.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

Go the extra mile.

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

The best things in life are free.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

The leopard does not change his spots.

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

Enough is as good as a feast.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Laughter is the best medicine.

Stupid is as stupid does.

God helps those who help themselves.

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

There's no fool like an old fool.

Misery loves company.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

You win some, you lose some.

There's no place like home.

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

Only the good die young.

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

A man is known by his friends.

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

Birds of a feather flock together.

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

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

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

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

Practice makes perfect.

You are what you eat.

Pride comes before a fall.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

All's fair in love and war.

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

Tomorrow is another day.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

Many are called, but few are chosen.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

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

The customer is always right.

What goes up must come down.

Count your blessings.

Pearls of wisdom.

You can't win them all.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

If you play with fire, you will get burnt.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Haste makes waste.

Forgive and forget.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

Might is right.

What goes around comes around.

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

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

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

Give the Devil his due.

Many hands make light work.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

Silence construes consent.

Opposites attract.

Never tell tales out of school.

Revenge is sweet.

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

A bad penny always turns up.

Fair exchange is no robbery.

A stitch in time saves nine.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Fish and guests smell after three days.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

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

It's all grist to the mill.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

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

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

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