Where there is smoke there is fire.

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

Good fences make good neighbours.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

Nothing succeeds like success.

There's one born every minute.

If the cap fits, wear it.

For everything there is a season.

God helps those who help themselves.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

It never rains but it pours.

Accidents will happen.

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

Good things come in small packages.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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

You can't win them all.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.

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

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

A cat may look at a king.

Still waters run deep.

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

All that glitters is not gold.

Grief divided is made lighter.

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

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

There is no accounting for tastes.

Watch the doughnut, not the hole.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

Love makes the world go round.

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

Enough is as good as a feast.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

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

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

No news is good news.

A fish always rots from the head.

A cat has nine lives.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

Waste not, want not.

Many are called, but few are chosen.

Time is money.

Learn to walk before you run.

Beauty is only skin deep.

Flattery will get you nowhere.

The more the merrier.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

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

Only fools and horses work.

No man can serve two masters.

The leopard does not change his spots.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

Silence is golden.

Fight fire with fire.

Any port in a storm.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Practice what you preach.

A new broom sweeps clean.

There's no smoke without fire.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

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

Count your blessings.

In the midst of life we are in death.

History repeats itself.

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

Every stick has two ends.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

The best defence is a good offence.

Once bitten, twice shy.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Pearls of wisdom.

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

First things first.

The best-laid plans go astray.

Bread always falls buttered side down.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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

Make haste slowly.

Forewarned is forearmed.

Let bygones be bygones.

Love will find a way.

Might is right.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

Life is what you make it.

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

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

There is honour among thieves.

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