Keep your powder dry.

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

A problem shared is a problem halved.

Good fences make good neighbours.

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

To err is human; to forgive divine.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

There's no place like home.

Count your blessings.

Easy come, easy go.

Nothing succeeds like success.

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

One good deed deserves another.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

Always put your best foot forward.

Don't meet troubles half-way.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

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

The Devil looks after his own.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

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

Accidents will happen.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

All things must pass.

Keep your chin up.

Pride comes before a fall.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

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

Never speak ill of the dead.

Each to their own.

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

Talk is cheap.

Don't throw good money after bad.

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

Time and tide wait for no one.

Don't upset the apple-cart.

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

It's best to be on the safe side.

Never give a sucker an even break.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

There's a time and a place for everything.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

The more the merrier.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Actions speak louder than words.

Quid pro quo.

If you play with fire, you will get burnt.

The best-laid plans go astray.

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

Physician, heal thyself.

There is no accounting for tastes.

Revenge is sweet.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

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

A good beginning makes a good ending.

Haste makes waste.

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

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

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

Ignorance is bliss.

Nine tailors make a man.

East is east, and west is west.

Bread always falls buttered side down.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Once a thief, always a thief.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

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

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

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

Children and fools tell the truth.

A prophet is not recognized in his own land.

A word to the wise is enough.

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

When in Rome, do as Romans do.

The bread always falls buttered side down.

Put your best foot forward.

Never go to bed on an argument.

There are two sides to every question.

What goes around comes around.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

History repeats itself.

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

The apple never falls far from the tree.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

Oil and water don't mix.

What goes up must come down.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Everyone has their price.

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

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

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Handsome is as handsome does.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

All the world loves a lover.

Good things come to those who wait.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

Persuasion is better than force.

Look before you leap.

You can't make bricks without straw.

Pearls of wisdom.

The leopard does not change his spots.

All you need is love.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Make love not war.

Watch the doughnut, not the hole.

The Devil makes work for idle hands.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

No man can serve two masters.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

The age of miracles is past.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

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

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Love of money is the root of all evil.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

A new broom sweeps clean.

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

A penny saved is a penny earned.

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

Get out while the getting is good.

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

Life begins at forty.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

A person is known by the company they keep.

Share and share alike.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

A poor worker blames the tools.

The bigger, the better.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

For everything there is a season.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Every picture tells a story.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Live and learn.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

If you can't be good, be careful.

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

As you sow, so you shall reap.

A cat may look at a king.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Little pitchers have big ears.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

Different strokes for different folks.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

Worrying never did anyone any good.

Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.

Business before pleasure.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Attack is the best form of defence.

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

All publicity is good publicity.

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

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

Life's not all beer and skittles.

When one door shuts, another opens.

Still waters run deep.

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

Virtue is its own reward.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

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

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

Birds of a feather flock together.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

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

Better safe than sorry.

Enough is enough.

April showers bring forth May flowers.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

There's safety in numbers.

Let the dead bury the dead.

All's well that ends well.

Let well alone.

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

Cheats never prosper.

Time will tell.

First things first.

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

Fish and guests smell after three days.

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

No news is good news.

Fortune favours the brave.

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

Good talk saves the food.

Time is money.

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

The truth will out.

You are what you eat.

A golden key can open any door.

Time is a great healer.

Tomorrow is another day.

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

Honesty is the best policy.

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

Love is blind.

A man is known by his friends.

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

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

Go the extra mile.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

No rest for the wicked.

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

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

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

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

You can have too much of a good thing.

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

A place for everything and everything in its place.

It's the singer not the song.

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

Grief divided is made lighter.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

A watched pot never boils.

Hope springs eternal.

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

The exception which proves the rule.

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

Paddle your own canoe.

Curiosity killed the cat.

Make hay while the sun shines.

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

Empty bags cannot stand upright.

Penny wise and pound foolish.

Time flies.

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

The best things in life are free.

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

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

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

A fish always rots from the head.

The end justifies the means.

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

Silence is golden.

A stitch in time saves nine.

Don't get mad, get even.

Shrouds have no pockets.

There's no smoke without fire.

Might is right.

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

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

Hide in plain sight.

Enough is as good as a feast.

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

Half a loaf is better than none.

It's easy to be wise after the event.

Clothes do not make the man.

There's no fool like an old fool.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

The show must go on.

Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

More haste, less speed.

Money makes the world go round.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

Fair exchange is no robbery.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

You win some, you lose some.

Beauty is only skin deep.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

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

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

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

There's one born every minute.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

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

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Forewarned is forearmed.

Beggars can't be choosers.

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

To the victor go the spoils.

Horses for courses.

The best defence is a good offence.

If the cap fits, wear it.

Small things amuse small minds.

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

Nature abhors a vacuum.

There's no time like the present.

Seeing is believing.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

The Devil is in the details.

Any port in a storm.

You reap what you sow.

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

Two heads are better than one.

Money isn't everything.

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

There but for the grace of God, go I.

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

Man does not live by bread alone.

Many are called, but few are chosen.

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

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

Misery loves company.

East, west, home's best.

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

Stupid is as stupid does.

A leopard can't change its spots.

First come, first served.

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

Tomorrow never comes.

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

Bad news travels fast.

It's better to give than to receive.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

Needs must when the devil drives.

Every dog has its day.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

A bad penny always turns up.

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

Like father, like son.

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

The early bird gets the worm.

Truth will out.

All good things come to those that wait.

Give credit where credit is due.

A thing begun is half done.

God helps those who help themselves.

In the midst of life we are in death.

Only the good die young.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

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

It goes without saying.

Less said, soon mended.

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Appearances can be deceptive.

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

Practice what you preach.

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

He who hesitates is lost.

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

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

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

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

Don't mix business with pleasure.

Better late than never.

Possession is nine points of the law.

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Live and let live.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

Practice makes perfect.

Even a worm will turn.

What can't be cured must be endured.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

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

The customer is always right.

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

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

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

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

One hand washes the other.

Another day, another dollar.

Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.

Seek and you shall find.

Don't change horses in midstream.

To every thing there is a season.

Cold hands, warm heart.

A dog is a man's best friend.

Every stick has two ends.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

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

No man is an island.

A picture paints a thousand words.

Big fish eat little fish.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

The Devil has all the best tunes.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Fight fire with fire.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

No pain, no gain.

Don't shoot the messenger.

Don't rock the boat.

A miss is as good as a mile.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Life is what you make it.

Make haste slowly.

Once bitten, twice shy.

There's an exception to every rule.

Great minds think alike.

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

Love will find a way.

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

Speak as you find.

First impressions are the most lasting.

Fight the good fight.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

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

It's never too late to mend.

Children should be seen and not heard.

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

Into every life a little rain must fall.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

A good man is hard to find.

Good things come in small packages.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

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

Give the Devil his due.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Less is more.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

You are never too old to learn.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

The wages of sin is death.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Waste not, want not.

An man's home is his castle.

The longest journey starts with a single step.

Crime doesn't pay.

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

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

The pen is mightier than sword.

Silence construes consent.

Slow but sure.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

Variety is the spice of life.

You can't always get what you want.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

Do as I say, not as I do.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

Charity begins at home.

A cat has nine lives.

Faith will move mountains.

Bad money drives out good.

Love makes the world go round.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

While there is life, there is hope.

All that glitters is not gold.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Let bygones be bygones.

The bottom line is the bottom line.

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

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

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

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

Third time lucky.

You can't win them all.

Money talks.

Christmas comes but once a year.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

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

Never tell tales out of school.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Let the buyer beware.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

All's fair in love and war.

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

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

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

Wonders will never cease.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

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

You can't get blood out of a stone.

Patience is a virtue.

It takes one to know one.

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

Dead men tell no tales.

It takes two to tango.

Many hands make light work.

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

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Manners maketh the man.

Never tell tales out of school.

It takes two to tango.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

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

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

Walls have ears.

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