Slow but sure.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

Better safe than sorry.

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

The longest journey starts with a single step.

Get out while the getting is good.

The age of miracles is past.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

Silence is golden.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Patience is a virtue.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

You can't make bricks without straw.

Live and let live.

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

An empty vessel makes much noise.

Small things amuse small minds.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

Don't change horses in midstream.

Life is what you make it.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

Laughter is the best medicine.

Enough is enough.

Look before you leap.

Don't shoot the messenger.

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

The pen is mightier than sword.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Still waters run deep.

Life begins at forty.

When in Rome, do as Romans do.

Ignorance is bliss.

Money makes the world go round.

Little pitchers have big ears.

Pride comes before a fall.

Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.

Penny wise and pound foolish.

The exception which proves the rule.

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

The best things in life are free.

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

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

If you play with fire, you will get burnt.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Fight fire with fire.

To the victor go the spoils.

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

Don't meet troubles half-way.

You can't always get what you want.

For everything there is a season.

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

A word to the wise is enough.

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

Each to their own.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Let bygones be bygones.

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

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

All publicity is good publicity.

Even a worm will turn.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

East is east, and west is west.

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

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

Revenge is sweet.

Do as I say, not as I do.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

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

There are two sides to every question.

Half a loaf is better than none.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

Let the dead bury the dead.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

Money isn't everything.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Watch the doughnut, not the hole.

Cold hands, warm heart.

Any port in a storm.

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

An army marches on its stomach.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

Walls have ears.

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

Practice what you preach.

If the cap fits, wear it.

Every picture tells a story.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Good talk saves the food.

Bad news travels fast.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

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

April showers bring forth May flowers.

While there is life, there is hope.

Time will tell.

Once a thief, always a thief.

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

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

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Different strokes for different folks.

Make love not war.

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

Every stick has two ends.

Clothes do not make the man.

Seize the day.

Truth will out.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

It's all grist to the mill.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Go the extra mile.

Time flies.

Put your best foot forward.

Life's not all beer and skittles.

Forgive and forget.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

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

Charity begins at home.

It's easy to be wise after the event.

You win some, you lose some.

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

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

Easy come, easy go.

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

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

It takes one to know one.

It's better to give than to receive.

One swallow does not a summer make.

There's no place like home.

All things must pass.

A miss is as good as a mile.

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

A cat may look at a king.

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

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Speak as you find.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Waste not, want not.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

The leopard does not change his spots.

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

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

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

You can't win them all.

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

Good things come to those who wait.

Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

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

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

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

God helps those who help themselves.

Make hay while the sun shines.

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

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

Don't blow your own trumpet.

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

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

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Pearls of wisdom.

Handsome is as handsome does.

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

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

There's an exception to every rule.

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

You can have too much of a good thing.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

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

Let the punishment fit the crime.

Flattery will get you nowhere.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

Beware the Ides of March.

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

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

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

Fair exchange is no robbery.

Make haste slowly.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

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

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

There's no time like the present.

A cat has nine lives.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Love is blind.

Silence construes consent.

It goes without saying.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

East, west, home's best.

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

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

Strike while the iron is hot.

Love of money is the root of all evil.

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

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

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

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

A new broom sweeps clean.

Love makes the world go round.

No man is an island.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

First things first.

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

Worrying never did anyone any good.

Let the buyer beware.

Might is right.

Empty bags cannot stand upright.

There's one born every minute.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

There's a time and a place for everything.

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

One hand washes the other.

Money is the root of all evil.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

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

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

No man can serve two masters.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

A prophet is not recognized in his own land.

Don't mix business with pleasure.

Many hands make light work.

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

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

An man's home is his castle.

Tomorrow is another day.

Enough is as good as a feast.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

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

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

Children and fools tell the truth.

Honesty is the best policy.

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

Time and tide wait for no one.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Learn to walk before you run.

Knowledge is power.

Give credit where credit is due.

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

All's fair in love and war.

Man does not live by bread alone.

A bad penny always turns up.

Money talks.

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

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

The bottom line is the bottom line.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

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

Possession is nine points of the law.

Nothing succeeds like success.

You can't get blood out of a stone.

You are what you eat.

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

Oil and water don't mix.

Cheats never prosper.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Nine tailors make a man.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

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

Money doesn't grow on trees.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Keep your chin up.

A man is known by his friends.

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

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

All good things come to those that wait.

Business before pleasure.

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

The Devil makes work for idle hands.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Youth is wasted on the young.

A watched pot never boils.

Many are called, but few are chosen.

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

Don't get mad, get even.

It's best to be on the safe side.

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

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

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Quid pro quo.

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Shrouds have no pockets.

Beggars can't be choosers.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

Two heads are better than one.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

Know which side your bread is buttered.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

Don't upset the apple-cart.

Count your blessings.

A dog is a man's best friend.

Talk is cheap.

Dead men tell no tales.

If you build it, they will come.

All roads lead to Rome.

Wonders will never cease.

Only the good die young.

Another day, another dollar.

Fortune favours the brave.

Let well alone.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

A house is not a home.

Keep your powder dry.

Once bitten, twice shy.

Appearances can be deceptive.

In the midst of life we are in death.

Big fish eat little fish.

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

What can't be cured must be endured.

The bread always falls buttered side down.

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

What goes up must come down.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

Opposites attract.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

The show must go on.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Live and learn.

You reap what you sow.

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

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

All that glitters is not gold.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

Marriages are made in heaven.

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

The more the merrier.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

A poor worker blames the tools.

Fight the good fight.

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

Seeing is believing.

It's never too late to mend.

Share and share alike.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Time is money.

The truth will out.

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

What goes around comes around.

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

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

The customer is always right.

Bad money drives out good.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

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

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

Tomorrow never comes.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

First come, first served.

Virtue is its own reward.

You are never too old to learn.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

All good things must come to an end.

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

Practice makes perfect.

The early bird gets the worm.

Forewarned is forearmed.

Great minds think alike.

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

Christmas comes but once a year.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

All the world loves a lover.

The Devil has all the best tunes.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

There's no smoke without fire.

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

Only fools and horses work.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

A person is known by the company they keep.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

A problem shared is a problem halved.

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

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

Misery loves company.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

One good deed deserves another.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

There's no fool like an old fool.

A picture paints a thousand words.

All you need is love.

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

Needs must when the devil drives.

Better late than never.

Hope springs eternal.

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

Don't rock the boat.

Birds of a feather flock together.

Hide in plain sight.

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

Set a thief to catch a thief.

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

Love will find a way.

Physician, heal thyself.

Accidents will happen.

Haste makes waste.

The best defence is a good offence.

Always put your best foot forward.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Persuasion is better than force.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

Paddle your own canoe.

It takes two to tango.

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

Give the Devil his due.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

There is honour among thieves.

The bigger, the better.

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

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Grief divided is made lighter.

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

A leopard can't change its spots.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Curiosity killed the cat.

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

Seek and you shall find.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

A thing begun is half done.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

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

Good things come in small packages.

If you can't be good, be careful.

All's well that ends well.

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

Never speak ill of the dead.

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

A good beginning makes a good ending.

Good fences make good neighbours.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

The Devil looks after his own.

Actions speak louder than words.

Manners maketh the man.

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

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

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

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

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

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

Never go to bed on an argument.

No pain, no gain.

The wages of sin is death.

History repeats itself.

Faith will move mountains.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

More haste, less speed.

Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

No news is good news.

The best-laid plans go astray.

Never tell tales out of school.

Less is more.

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

Variety is the spice of life.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

Moderation in all things.

Hard work never did anyone any harm.