Fish and guests smell after three days.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

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

The Devil is in the details.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

Every dog has its day.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

When one door shuts, another opens.

It's best to be on the safe side.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

Grief divided is made lighter.

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

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

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

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

Once bitten, twice shy.

Put your best foot forward.

Blood is thicker than water.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

Another day, another dollar.

No news is good news.

What goes around comes around.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

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

History repeats itself.

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

Quid pro quo.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

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

Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

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

Possession is nine points of the law.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

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

You reap what you sow.

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

Let bygones be bygones.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

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

Bread always falls buttered side down.

It takes two to tango.

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

Time will tell.

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

Dead men tell no tales.

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

Live and let live.

A person is known by the company they keep.

Cheats never prosper.

Money isn't everything.

All good things must come to an end.

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

Once a thief, always a thief.

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

Don't upset the apple-cart.

Only fools and horses work.

The wages of sin is death.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

Love of money is the root of all evil.

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

The age of miracles is past.

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

No rest for the wicked.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

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

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

All roads lead to Rome.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Children and fools tell the truth.

Better safe than sorry.

Time is money.

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

It's never too late to mend.

You can't win them all.

Don't rock the boat.

Any port in a storm.

Only the good die young.

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

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

Share and share alike.

A leopard can't change its spots.

Good talk saves the food.

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

Moderation in all things.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

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

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