Marriages are made in heaven.

A watched pot never boils.

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

Make hay while the sun shines.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

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

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

Everyone has their price.

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

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Opposites attract.

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

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

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

To the victor go the spoils.

The Devil has all the best tunes.

You can't get blood out of a stone.

Charity begins at home.

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

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

The show must go on.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

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

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

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

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

Give the Devil his due.

Love is blind.

Might is right.

Different strokes for different folks.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Any port in a storm.

Honesty is the best policy.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

Youth is wasted on the young.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

A miss is as good as a mile.

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

Stupid is as stupid does.

Never go to bed on an argument.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

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

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

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

Love of money is the root of all evil.

In the midst of life we are in death.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

A leopard can't change its spots.

Money makes the world go round.

Empty bags cannot stand upright.

Forgive and forget.

No rest for the wicked.

Shrouds have no pockets.

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

Hope springs eternal.

Knowledge is power.

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

Never speak ill of the dead.

The exception which proves the rule.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

There's safety in numbers.

Another day, another dollar.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

You are what you eat.

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

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

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

Nature abhors a vacuum.

There's no place like home.

Accidents will happen.

Attack is the best form of defence.

Life's not all beer and skittles.

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

For everything there is a season.

Tomorrow is another day.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

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

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Needs must when the devil drives.

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

The best is the enemy of the good.

If you play with fire, you will get burnt.

You reap what you sow.

An man's home is his castle.

Practice what you preach.

You can have too much of a good thing.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

What goes around comes around.

Variety is the spice of life.

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

Blood is thicker than water.

The apple never falls far from the tree.

A problem shared is a problem halved.

Go the extra mile.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

It's better to give than to receive.

Manners maketh the man.

Money isn't everything.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Many are called, but few are chosen.

Silence is golden.

Wonders will never cease.

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

When in Rome, do as Romans do.

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Christmas comes but once a year.

No man is an island.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Make love not war.

Children and fools tell the truth.

Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

A dog is a man's best friend.

Oil and water don't mix.

A bad penny always turns up.

Love will find a way.

Forewarned is forearmed.

Flattery will get you nowhere.

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

Crime doesn't pay.

The pen is mightier than sword.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

Horses for courses.

The end justifies the means.

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

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

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

It's never too late to mend.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Easy come, easy go.

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

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

You are never too old to learn.

One hand washes the other.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

There are two sides to every question.

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

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

Moderation in all things.

No news is good news.

Every dog has its day.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

Good things come to those who wait.

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

Put your best foot forward.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

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

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

It never rains but it pours.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

There's no fool like an old fool.

Misery loves company.

Physician, heal thyself.

Hide in plain sight.

There is no accounting for tastes.

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

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Get out while the getting is good.

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

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

Once bitten, twice shy.

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

Keep your powder dry.

God helps those who help themselves.

Home is where the heart is.

Faith will move mountains.

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

You can't see the forest for the trees.

Speak as you find.

Don't shoot the messenger.

Grief divided is made lighter.

Less is more.

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

Jack of all trades, master of none.

Fortune favours the brave.

Always put your best foot forward.

No man can serve two masters.

Know which side your bread is buttered.

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

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

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Many hands make light work.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

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

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Let the buyer beware.

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

Time is a great healer.

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

It takes two to tango.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Seeing is believing.

An army marches on its stomach.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

The Devil makes work for idle hands.

Little pitchers have big ears.

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Birds of a feather flock together.

Nothing succeeds like success.

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

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

All roads lead to Rome.

He who hesitates is lost.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

Man does not live by bread alone.

It goes without saying.

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

All good things come to those that wait.

Time is money.

All's well that ends well.

Fight the good fight.

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

There's an exception to every rule.

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

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

Dead men tell no tales.

A word to the wise is enough.

The customer is always right.

The bigger, the better.

Bread always falls buttered side down.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

It takes one to know one.

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

Bad news travels fast.

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

Half a loaf is better than none.

Nine tailors make a man.

Pride comes before a fall.

Cold hands, warm heart.

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

A good man is hard to find.

It's best to be on the safe side.

Time will tell.

Still waters run deep.

There is honour among thieves.

Don't throw good money after bad.

If the cap fits, wear it.

Ignorance is bliss.

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

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

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

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Actions speak louder than words.

Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.

Persuasion is better than force.

Truth will out.

Even a worm will turn.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

Live and let live.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

Fight fire with fire.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

Good fences make good neighbours.

One swallow does not a summer make.

East is east, and west is west.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

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

The truth will out.

Children should be seen and not heard.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

The best-laid plans go astray.

The Devil looks after his own.

It's all grist to the mill.

The bread always falls buttered side down.

Nothing new under the sun.

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

Beat swords into ploughshares.

Let the dead bury the dead.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

Let bygones be bygones.

First come, first served.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

April showers bring forth May flowers.

Waste not, want not.

Less said, soon mended.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

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

Beauty is only skin deep.

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

It's the singer not the song.

Seek and you shall find.

Revenge is sweet.

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

A prophet is not recognized in his own land.

Every stick has two ends.

No pain, no gain.

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

Look before you leap.

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

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

A cat may look at a king.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Every picture tells a story.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

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

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

The wages of sin is death.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

What can't be cured must be endured.

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

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

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

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

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

Silence construes consent.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

Once a thief, always a thief.

A thing begun is half done.

All things must pass.

Life begins at forty.

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

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

The age of miracles is past.

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Count your blessings.

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

Quid pro quo.

What goes up must come down.

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

A new broom sweeps clean.

The bottom line is the bottom line.

The longest journey starts with a single step.

You win some, you lose some.

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

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

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

All's fair in love and war.

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

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Cheats never prosper.

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

Don't get mad, get even.

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

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

East, west, home's best.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

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

Don't let the cat out of the bag.

Clothes do not make the man.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

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

Beware the Ides of March.

One good deed deserves another.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

Never give a sucker an even break.

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

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

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

Patience is a virtue.

Don't change horses in midstream.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

If you can't be good, be careful.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

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

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Good things come in small packages.

Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.

A fish always rots from the head.

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

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

Penny wise and pound foolish.

Two heads are better than one.

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

Better safe than sorry.

A man is known by his friends.

While there is life, there is hope.

Give credit where credit is due.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

Do as I say, not as I do.

Fair exchange is no robbery.

The leopard does not change his spots.

The Devil is in the details.

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

Virtue is its own reward.

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

You can't win them all.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

All good things must come to an end.

Fish and guests smell after three days.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

To every thing there is a season.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

Out of sight, out of mind.

There's no time like the present.

Never tell tales out of school.

Watch the doughnut, not the hole.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

There's a time and a place for everything.

Don't mix business with pleasure.

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

A person is known by the company they keep.

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

You can't always get what you want.

Make haste slowly.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

A picture paints a thousand words.

As you sow, so you shall reap.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

Let well alone.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

Handsome is as handsome does.

Life is what you make it.

All that glitters is not gold.

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

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

Keep your chin up.

When one door shuts, another opens.

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

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

Like father, like son.

Worrying never did anyone any good.

A poor worker blames the tools.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

Don't upset the apple-cart.

Share and share alike.

If you build it, they will come.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

Practice makes perfect.

Don't meet troubles half-way.

Big fish eat little fish.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

Seize the day.

The more the merrier.

It's easy to be wise after the event.

A golden key can open any door.

Time flies.

You can't make bricks without straw.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

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

Appearances can be deceptive.

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

Only fools and horses work.

All the world loves a lover.

Curiosity killed the cat.

Possession is nine points of the law.

Tomorrow never comes.

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

Beggars can't be choosers.

Third time lucky.

All publicity is good publicity.

Business before pleasure.

A stitch in time saves nine.

Don't shoot the messenger.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

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

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

Learn to walk before you run.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

Don't rock the boat.

Enough is enough.

You can't take it with you.

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