Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

The Devil is in the details.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

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

Big fish eat little fish.

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

Fair exchange is no robbery.

Opposites attract.

Share and share alike.

Little pitchers have big ears.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

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

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

Might is right.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

Practice makes perfect.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

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

A new broom sweeps clean.

No man can serve two masters.

No pain, no gain.

The leopard does not change his spots.

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

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

The truth will out.

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

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

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

All that glitters is not gold.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

The apple never falls far from the tree.

Marriages are made in heaven.

Business before pleasure.

Charity begins at home.

Empty bags cannot stand upright.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

In the midst of life we are in death.

As you sow, so you shall reap.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

Hope springs eternal.

Good things come to those who wait.

Forewarned is forearmed.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Quid pro quo.

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

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

A fish always rots from the head.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

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

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

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

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

Actions speak louder than words.

Cold hands, warm heart.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Stupid is as stupid does.

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

Don't change horses in midstream.

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

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

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

Know which side your bread is buttered.

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

One good deed deserves another.

Don't let the cat out of the bag.

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

Crime doesn't pay.

The Devil has all the best tunes.

First impressions are the most lasting.

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

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

Nine tailors make a man.

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

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

Wonders will never cease.

Every dog has its day.

Out of sight, out of mind.

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

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

April showers bring forth May flowers.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

Everyone has their price.

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

A house is not a home.

Money makes the world go round.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

There are two sides to every question.

East, west, home's best.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

There's an exception to every rule.

Never give a sucker an even break.

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

You can't make bricks without straw.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Don't upset the apple-cart.

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

All good things come to those that wait.

Don't get mad, get even.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

A word to the wise is enough.

A golden key can open any door.

When in Rome, do as Romans do.

More haste, less speed.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

Birds of a feather flock together.

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

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

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Once a thief, always a thief.

All good things must come to an end.

Worrying never did anyone any good.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

You can't always get what you want.

Live and let live.

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

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

A poor worker blames the tools.

All roads lead to Rome.

Honesty is the best policy.

Only fools and horses work.

Less said, soon mended.

Better late than never.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

No news is good news.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

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

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

Better safe than sorry.

There's no time like the present.

Keep your chin up.

Fight the good fight.

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

Never tell tales out of school.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

Handsome is as handsome does.

Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

Give the Devil his due.

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

Attack is the best form of defence.

It's better to give than to receive.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

You can't win them all.

There's a time and a place for everything.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Practice what you preach.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

First come, first served.

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

It's never too late to mend.

You win some, you lose some.

The customer is always right.

To the victor go the spoils.

A good man is hard to find.

Put your best foot forward.

One swallow does not a summer make.

A dog is a man's best friend.

It's the singer not the song.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

You can't take it with you.

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

The show must go on.

Hide in plain sight.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

A prophet is not recognized in his own land.

Only the good die young.

The age of miracles is past.

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

Any port in a storm.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Easy come, easy go.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

There's safety in numbers.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Silence construes consent.

Forgive and forget.

Christmas comes but once a year.

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

Make hay while the sun shines.

Needs must when the devil drives.

East is east, and west is west.

Variety is the spice of life.

It's best to be on the safe side.

If the cap fits, wear it.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Accidents will happen.

Moderation in all things.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

An army marches on its stomach.

Good things come in small packages.

A man is known by his friends.

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

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

Small things amuse small minds.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

Half a loaf is better than none.

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

Seize the day.

Manners maketh the man.

It takes one to know one.

One hand washes the other.

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

To every thing there is a season.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

A miss is as good as a mile.

Like father, like son.

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

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Don't throw good money after bad.

Physician, heal thyself.

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

Waste not, want not.

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

Live and learn.

First things first.

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

Once bitten, twice shy.

The exception which proves the rule.

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

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Let the dead bury the dead.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

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

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

If you build it, they will come.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

The best-laid plans go astray.

A bad penny always turns up.

Penny wise and pound foolish.

Tomorrow is another day.

Laughter is the best medicine.

Persuasion is better than force.

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

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Money is the root of all evil.

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

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

A watched pot never boils.

Clothes do not make the man.

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

Fine words butter no parsnips.

Each to their own.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

It's all grist to the mill.

The Devil makes work for idle hands.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Life begins at forty.

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

All things must pass.

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

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

All's fair in love and war.

What goes up must come down.

An man's home is his castle.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Oil and water don't mix.

No man is an island.

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

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

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

A stitch in time saves nine.

Don't mix business with pleasure.

Home is where the heart is.

Faith will move mountains.

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

Bad news travels fast.

Good talk saves the food.

It's easy to be wise after the event.

Many hands make light work.

Pearls of wisdom.

The more the merrier.

Fight fire with fire.

Truth will out.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

Still waters run deep.

Dead men tell no tales.

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

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

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

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Great minds think alike.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Revenge is sweet.

Get out while the getting is good.

Haste makes waste.

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

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

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

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

Horses for courses.

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

The bread always falls buttered side down.

Flattery will get you nowhere.

Bread always falls buttered side down.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

For everything there is a season.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Look before you leap.

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

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

You are never too old to learn.

Beware the Ides of March.

Time is money.

Love is blind.

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

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

Never go to bed on an argument.

Less is more.

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

You are what you eat.

Don't meet troubles half-way.

It goes without saying.

Learn to walk before you run.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Talk is cheap.

Enough is enough.

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Do as I say, not as I do.

Good fences make good neighbours.

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

Slow and steady wins the race.

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

A picture paints a thousand words.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

The Devil looks after his own.

There's no smoke without fire.

A person is known by the company they keep.

Love of money is the root of all evil.

The best things in life are free.

A thing begun is half done.

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

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

Seek and you shall find.

Let bygones be bygones.

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

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

There is honour among thieves.

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

The wages of sin is death.

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

Slow but sure.

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

The early bird gets the worm.

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

There's one born every minute.

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

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

Ignorance is bliss.

The bigger, the better.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Walls have ears.

The best defence is a good offence.

Curiosity killed the cat.

Strike while the iron is hot.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

The end justifies the means.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

Don't shoot the messenger.

While there is life, there is hope.

Always put your best foot forward.

Shrouds have no pockets.

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

A problem shared is a problem halved.

History repeats itself.

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

Let sleeping dogs lie.

There's no place like home.

Seeing is believing.

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

Another day, another dollar.

Make haste slowly.

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

All publicity is good publicity.

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

Money isn't everything.

Grief divided is made lighter.

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

Enough is as good as a feast.

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

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Third time lucky.

Virtue is its own reward.

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

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

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

Knowledge is power.

All's well that ends well.

Fish and guests smell after three days.

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

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

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

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

It takes two to tango.

Beauty is only skin deep.

The pen is mightier than sword.

Time is a great healer.

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

Money doesn't grow on trees.

You can have too much of a good thing.

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

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

There's no fool like an old fool.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Different strokes for different folks.

There is no accounting for tastes.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

Money talks.

God helps those who help themselves.

Count your blessings.

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

When one door shuts, another opens.

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

What can't be cured must be endured.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

Two heads are better than one.

Watch the doughnut, not the hole.

Children should be seen and not heard.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

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

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

A cat has nine lives.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

You can't get blood out of a stone.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

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

Bad money drives out good.

A leopard can't change its spots.

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

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Every picture tells a story.

You can't win them all.

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

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

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

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Fortune favours the brave.

Appearances can be deceptive.

You reap what you sow.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.