Fair exchange is no robbery.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

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

There's no time like the present.

There's one born every minute.

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

Live and learn.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Better safe than sorry.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

Oil and water don't mix.

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

Practice makes perfect.

Fight the good fight.

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

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

It's never too late to mend.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Knowledge is power.

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

One swallow does not a summer make.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

In the midst of life we are in death.

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

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

Always put your best foot forward.

Charity begins at home.

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

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

Put your best foot forward.

History repeats itself.

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

Children and fools tell the truth.

All roads lead to Rome.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

Needs must when the devil drives.

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

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

More haste, less speed.

All good things come to those that wait.

Laughter is the best medicine.

What goes up must come down.

Bread always falls buttered side down.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Half a loaf is better than none.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

A house is not a home.

You can't get blood out of a stone.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

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

Attack is the best form of defence.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

Love makes the world go round.

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

Know which side your bread is buttered.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

First impressions are the most lasting.

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

Slow and steady wins the race.

All things must pass.

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

It never rains but it pours.

Life is what you make it.

What can't be cured must be endured.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Clothes do not make the man.

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

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

The best-laid plans go astray.

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

If you build it, they will come.

Hope springs eternal.

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

Grief divided is made lighter.

Tomorrow never comes.

Home is where the heart is.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

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

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

No man can serve two masters.

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

Birds of a feather flock together.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

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

Money doesn't grow on trees.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Keep your powder dry.

Go the extra mile.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

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

Don't rock the boat.

Less is more.

No news is good news.

Dead men tell no tales.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

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

The early bird gets the worm.

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

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

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

No pain, no gain.

When one door shuts, another opens.

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

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

Pearls of wisdom.

Live and let live.

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

The show must go on.

A dog is a man's best friend.

Everyone has their price.

Silence is golden.

Great minds think alike.

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

There's no place like home.

Pride comes before a fall.

Paddle your own canoe.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Money talks.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

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

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

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

Good things come in small packages.

Don't meet troubles half-way.

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

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

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

Love will find a way.

Small things amuse small minds.

Fish and guests smell after three days.

Don't mix business with pleasure.

A stitch in time saves nine.

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

When in Rome, do as Romans do.

Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

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

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

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

Once bitten, twice shy.

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

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

It's the singer not the song.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

Haste makes waste.

Marriages are made in heaven.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

Appearances can be deceptive.

Patience is a virtue.

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

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

Opposites attract.

Only fools and horses work.

Get out while the getting is good.

Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.

A cat has nine lives.

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

Let well alone.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

The more the merrier.

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

Seek and you shall find.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

For everything there is a season.

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

Time is a great healer.

The apple never falls far from the tree.

Any port in a storm.

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

East is east, and west is west.

Forewarned is forearmed.

Money isn't everything.

Money is the root of all evil.

Truth will out.

The bigger, the better.

Seeing is believing.

Tomorrow is another day.

A new broom sweeps clean.

A poor worker blames the tools.

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

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

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

There are two sides to every question.

Don't change horses in midstream.

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

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

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

The bread always falls buttered side down.

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

The exception which proves the rule.

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

Still waters run deep.

A golden key can open any door.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Worrying never did anyone any good.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

You can't take it with you.

Crime doesn't pay.

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

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

A bad penny always turns up.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

As you sow, so you shall reap.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

A problem shared is a problem halved.

Empty bags cannot stand upright.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

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

A little of what you fancy does you good.

You are what you eat.

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

No man is an island.

Bad news travels fast.

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

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

A thing begun is half done.

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

It's all grist to the mill.

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

The Devil is in the details.

Less said, soon mended.

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Walls have ears.

Time and tide wait for no one.

Every picture tells a story.

First things first.

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

A person is known by the company they keep.

A good man is hard to find.

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

Different strokes for different folks.

Third time lucky.

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

Ignorance is bliss.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

You are never too old to learn.

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

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

In for a penny, in for a pound.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

Blood is thicker than water.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

The customer is always right.

Every dog has its day.

God helps those who help themselves.

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

Never go to bed on an argument.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Don't upset the apple-cart.

Don't get mad, get even.

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

Physician, heal thyself.

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

Talk is cheap.

A watched pot never boils.

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

Nothing new under the sun.

He who hesitates is lost.

Don't shoot the messenger.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Do as I say, not as I do.

Learn to walk before you run.

Many are called, but few are chosen.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

First come, first served.

Slow but sure.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

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

If you can't be good, be careful.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

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

An man's home is his castle.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

Never give a sucker an even break.

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

It's better to give than to receive.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

It takes one to know one.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

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

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

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

East, west, home's best.

The truth will out.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Business before pleasure.

Let bygones be bygones.

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

Only the good die young.

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

The wages of sin is death.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Another day, another dollar.

A picture paints a thousand words.

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

The best defence is a good offence.

Easy come, easy go.

Life begins at forty.

Good talk saves the food.

Strike while the iron is hot.

Actions speak louder than words.

Big fish eat little fish.

A miss is as good as a mile.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

The leopard does not change his spots.

There's no fool like an old fool.

Little pitchers have big ears.

Two heads are better than one.

Hide in plain sight.

Variety is the spice of life.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

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

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

No rest for the wicked.

Penny wise and pound foolish.

A fish always rots from the head.

Like father, like son.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Practice what you preach.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

Accidents will happen.

All the world loves a lover.

Life's not all beer and skittles.

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

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

Give the Devil his due.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

You can't always get what you want.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

Horses for courses.

Honesty is the best policy.

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

There's safety in numbers.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

The age of miracles is past.

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

Flattery will get you nowhere.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

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

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

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Cheats never prosper.

You can have too much of a good thing.

Might is right.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

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

All publicity is good publicity.

Enough is as good as a feast.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

The Devil makes work for idle hands.

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

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

There's an exception to every rule.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

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

Waste not, want not.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

All's fair in love and war.

Once a thief, always a thief.

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

Don't let the cat out of the bag.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Bad money drives out good.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

Every stick has two ends.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

There is honour among thieves.

Make haste slowly.

Beauty is only skin deep.

Never tell tales out of school.

Fight fire with fire.

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

You reap what you sow.

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

While there is life, there is hope.

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

To the victor go the spoils.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Beware the Ides of March.

Wonders will never cease.

Quid pro quo.

All you need is love.

What goes around comes around.

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

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Stupid is as stupid does.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Watch the doughnut, not the hole.

Persuasion is better than force.

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

Fortune favours the brave.

You can't win them all.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

There's a time and a place for everything.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Many hands make light work.

Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.

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

Keep your chin up.

Money makes the world go round.

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

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

Manners maketh the man.

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

A man is known by his friends.

Even a worm will turn.

Count your blessings.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Love of money is the root of all evil.

Shrouds have no pockets.

First things first.

Revenge is sweet.

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

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

The end justifies the means.

Share and share alike.

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

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

Cold hands, warm heart.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Good fences make good neighbours.

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

Nine tailors make a man.

Give credit where credit is due.

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

Silence construes consent.

There's no smoke without fire.

Possession is nine points of the law.

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

Time flies.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

A leopard can't change its spots.

Misery loves company.

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

To every thing there is a season.

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

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

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

The best things in life are free.

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

All good things must come to an end.

Let the buyer beware.

Moderation in all things.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Handsome is as handsome does.

The longest journey starts with a single step.

There is no accounting for tastes.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Faith will move mountains.

All's well that ends well.

Each to their own.