Stupid is as stupid does.

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

The best defence is a good offence.

No pain, no gain.

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

Less is more.

Never give a sucker an even break.

The bread always falls buttered side down.

It's easy to be wise after the event.

Don't throw good money after bad.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

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

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

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

First things first.

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

You reap what you sow.

Don't meet troubles half-way.

Enough is enough.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

Ignorance is bliss.

Strike while the iron is hot.

Each to their own.

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

If you play with fire, you will get burnt.

Nothing new under the sun.

Laughter is the best medicine.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

Seize the day.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

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

Keep your powder dry.

Make hay while the sun shines.

The bigger, the better.

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

A stitch in time saves nine.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

There's no fool like an old fool.

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

There's a time and a place for everything.

The leopard does not change his spots.

Give the Devil his due.

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

There's an exception to every rule.

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

History repeats itself.

Learn to walk before you run.

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

Bread always falls buttered side down.

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

It's best to be on the safe side.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

Third time lucky.

Time and tide wait for no one.

Haste makes waste.

Better safe than sorry.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

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

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Misery loves company.

Cheats never prosper.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

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

Accidents will happen.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

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

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

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

He who hesitates is lost.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

There is honour among thieves.

The best is the enemy of the good.

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

Knowledge is power.

Enough is as good as a feast.

A cat may look at a king.

East is east, and west is west.

A new broom sweeps clean.

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

Opposites attract.

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

All things must pass.

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

The exception which proves the rule.

The early bird gets the worm.

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

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

Shrouds have no pockets.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

Attack is the best form of defence.

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

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

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

All roads lead to Rome.

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

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

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

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

The end justifies the means.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

Beware the Ides of March.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

When in Rome, do as Romans do.

The Devil has all the best tunes.

No news is good news.

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

Always put your best foot forward.

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

There's no smoke without fire.

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

Might is right.

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

First impressions are the most lasting.

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

Love is blind.

Forewarned is forearmed.

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

Love makes the world go round.

Charity begins at home.

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

You can't make bricks without straw.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

Let the buyer beware.

To the victor go the spoils.

Money isn't everything.

If you can't be good, be careful.

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

A word to the wise is enough.

Big fish eat little fish.

Know which side your bread is buttered.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

Every dog has its day.

Time will tell.

Good things come in small packages.

You can't take it with you.

Marriages are made in heaven.

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

Every cloud has a silver lining.

In the midst of life we are in death.

Never tell tales out of school.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

Bad news travels fast.

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

Love will find a way.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Forgive and forget.

Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

April showers bring forth May flowers.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

One hand washes the other.

Paddle your own canoe.

Variety is the spice of life.

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

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

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

Walls have ears.

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

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

Practice makes perfect.

A poor worker blames the tools.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

What goes around comes around.

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

Even a worm will turn.

Money talks.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

When one door shuts, another opens.

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

Fortune favours the brave.

Talk is cheap.

All publicity is good publicity.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

Don't shoot the messenger.

Bad money drives out good.

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

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

Beggars can't be choosers.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Everyone has their price.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Less said, soon mended.

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

Discretion is the better part of valour.

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

Persuasion is better than force.

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

No man can serve two masters.

Birds of a feather flock together.

Clothes do not make the man.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Don't rock the boat.

Do as I say, not as I do.

Make haste slowly.

Many are called, but few are chosen.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

A dog is a man's best friend.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

More haste, less speed.

A person is known by the company they keep.

Patience is a virtue.

Time is a great healer.

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

Truth is stranger than fiction.

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

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

Children and fools tell the truth.

Fish and guests smell after three days.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

All good things must come to an end.

Hope springs eternal.

There's one born every minute.

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

It's better to give than to receive.

No rest for the wicked.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

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

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

Blood is thicker than water.

Better late than never.

No man is an island.

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

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

If you build it, they will come.

All that glitters is not gold.

Never speak ill of the dead.

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Possession is nine points of the law.

Business before pleasure.

East, west, home's best.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

Fight the good fight.

Money is the root of all evil.

Life is what you make it.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Tomorrow never comes.

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

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

You can't win them all.

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

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

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

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

Life's not all beer and skittles.

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

A cat has nine lives.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.

First come, first served.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

Still waters run deep.

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

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

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

Beauty is only skin deep.

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

A leopard can't change its spots.

Life begins at forty.

There is no accounting for tastes.

Penny wise and pound foolish.

Don't get mad, get even.

Empty bags cannot stand upright.

There's no time like the present.

The best-laid plans go astray.

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

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

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

Any port in a storm.

You win some, you lose some.

The Devil looks after his own.

Two heads are better than one.

Cold hands, warm heart.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

Good things come to those who wait.

Half a loaf is better than none.

Watch the doughnut, not the hole.

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

The show must go on.

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

Keep your chin up.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Love of money is the root of all evil.

Don't upset the apple-cart.

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

Good talk saves the food.

It goes without saying.

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

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

Let the dead bury the dead.

What can't be cured must be endured.

Slow but sure.

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

Silence is golden.

One swallow does not a summer make.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

A problem shared is a problem halved.

Manners maketh the man.

Virtue is its own reward.

Fight fire with fire.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

Revenge is sweet.

Once bitten, twice shy.

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

It takes two to tango.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

The more the merrier.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Give credit where credit is due.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

You can't get blood out of a stone.

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

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

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Actions speak louder than words.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Grief divided is made lighter.

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

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

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

Go the extra mile.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

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

There's safety in numbers.

Hide in plain sight.

The pen is mightier than sword.

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

A picture paints a thousand words.

Nine tailors make a man.

You are never too old to learn.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

Handsome is as handsome does.

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

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

The Devil makes work for idle hands.

You can't always get what you want.

One good deed deserves another.

Pride comes before a fall.

Curiosity killed the cat.

Worrying never did anyone any good.

Time flies.

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

Good fences make good neighbours.

Waste not, want not.

Never go to bed on an argument.

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

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

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

For everything there is a season.

To every thing there is a season.

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

The best things in life are free.

A prophet is not recognized in his own land.

All good things come to those that wait.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

Honesty is the best policy.

Like father, like son.

Faith will move mountains.

Another day, another dollar.

If the cap fits, wear it.

Make love not war.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Every picture tells a story.

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

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

An man's home is his castle.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

A good man is hard to find.

It's never too late to mend.

Great minds think alike.

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

Different strokes for different folks.

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

Don't mix business with pleasure.

The apple never falls far from the tree.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

Home is where the heart is.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Children should be seen and not heard.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Truth will out.

Oil and water don't mix.

Fair exchange is no robbery.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

While there is life, there is hope.

A thing begun is half done.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

You can have too much of a good thing.

Every stick has two ends.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

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

It never rains but it pours.

A golden key can open any door.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

Share and share alike.

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

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

A house is not a home.

Moderation in all things.

The age of miracles is past.

Once a thief, always a thief.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

Count your blessings.

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

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

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

Appearances can be deceptive.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

Look before you leap.

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

It's all grist to the mill.

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

There are two sides to every question.

An army marches on its stomach.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Live and let live.

All the world loves a lover.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

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

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

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

Only the good die young.

A watched pot never boils.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

Let well alone.

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

The bottom line is the bottom line.

Time is money.

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

Don't let the cat out of the bag.

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Horses for courses.

A fish always rots from the head.

Seek and you shall find.

Wonders will never cease.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

A bad penny always turns up.

Dead men tell no tales.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

Physician, heal thyself.

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

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