The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

To the victor go the spoils.

Don't meet troubles half-way.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

If the cap fits, wear it.

Practice what you preach.

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

Easy come, easy go.

Look before you leap.

Silence is golden.

There is honour among thieves.

For everything there is a season.

Needs must when the devil drives.

All good things must come to an end.

A man is known by his friends.

Seeing is believing.

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Live and learn.

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

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

No man is an island.

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

Beware the Ides of March.

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

Penny wise and pound foolish.

Many are called, but few are chosen.

Tomorrow is another day.

There's no time like the present.

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

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

All the world loves a lover.

If you can't be good, be careful.

Even a worm will turn.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

No rest for the wicked.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

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

Nothing new under the sun.

The best defence is a good offence.

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

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

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.

Seize the day.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

Forewarned is forearmed.

Make haste slowly.

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

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

Christmas comes but once a year.

Time is a great healer.

Speak as you find.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

Only the good die young.

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

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

The best things in life are free.

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

Laughter is the best medicine.

Misery loves company.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

Pride comes before a fall.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

Flattery will get you nowhere.

Don't throw good money after bad.

There is no accounting for tastes.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Life begins at forty.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

Keep your chin up.

Physician, heal thyself.

Actions speak louder than words.

All roads lead to Rome.

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

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

Enough is as good as a feast.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Like father, like son.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

Everyone has their price.

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

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

Crime doesn't pay.

Possession is nine points of the law.

Moderation in all things.

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

One good deed deserves another.

Less said, soon mended.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

You can't always get what you want.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

A miss is as good as a mile.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

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

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

Time and tide wait for no one.

Out of sight, out of mind.

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

You can't take it with you.

East is east, and west is west.

A problem shared is a problem halved.

Birds of a feather flock together.

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

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

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

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

The pen is mightier than sword.

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

Beggars can't be choosers.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

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

A dog is a man's best friend.

A cat may look at a king.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

All you need is love.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

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

The exception which proves the rule.

All's fair in love and war.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

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

Persuasion is better than force.

Patience is a virtue.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

The longest journey starts with a single step.

Oil and water don't mix.

Fortune favours the brave.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

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

Blue are the hills that are far away.

A house is not a home.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Fish and guests smell after three days.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Horses for courses.

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

A cat has nine lives.

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

There's no fool like an old fool.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

Love will find a way.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

Let bygones be bygones.

Truth will out.

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

A stitch in time saves nine.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

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

Faith will move mountains.

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

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

The age of miracles is past.

Slow and steady wins the race.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

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

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

There's no smoke without fire.

Do as I say, not as I do.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

It takes one to know one.

Shrouds have no pockets.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Good things come to those who wait.

Cold hands, warm heart.

There's an exception to every rule.

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

Grief divided is made lighter.

Half a loaf is better than none.

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

Marriages are made in heaven.

Business before pleasure.

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

Fine words butter no parsnips.

Charity begins at home.

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

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

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

Dead men tell no tales.

Know which side your bread is buttered.

Watch the doughnut, not the hole.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

The Devil has all the best tunes.

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

Nature abhors a vacuum.

One hand washes the other.

Let well alone.

Don't get mad, get even.

Children and fools tell the truth.

It's all grist to the mill.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

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

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

History repeats itself.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

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

Different strokes for different folks.

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

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

All publicity is good publicity.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

If you play with fire, you will get burnt.

Life's not all beer and skittles.

There's a time and a place for everything.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

Worrying never did anyone any good.

A golden key can open any door.

Quid pro quo.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

The Devil makes work for idle hands.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

A fish always rots from the head.

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

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

Another day, another dollar.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

It's the singer not the song.

Man does not live by bread alone.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Don't upset the apple-cart.

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

Money isn't everything.

If you build it, they will come.

He who hesitates is lost.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

The early bird gets the worm.

Many hands make light work.

A good man is hard to find.

Opposites attract.

Little pitchers have big ears.

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

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

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

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

Small things amuse small minds.

Talk is cheap.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

What goes up must come down.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

A new broom sweeps clean.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

What goes around comes around.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

Never speak ill of the dead.

All good things come to those that wait.

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

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

The bottom line is the bottom line.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Keep your powder dry.

One swallow does not a summer make.

Enough is enough.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Hide in plain sight.

Nothing succeeds like success.

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

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

You can't get blood out of a stone.

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

Big fish eat little fish.

A bad penny always turns up.

A person is known by the company they keep.

You reap what you sow.

All's well that ends well.

Wonders will never cease.

Always put your best foot forward.

Every stick has two ends.

The best is the enemy of the good.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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

Never tell tales out of school.

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

Handsome is as handsome does.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

Seek and you shall find.

Never give a sucker an even break.

Honesty is the best policy.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

A leopard can't change its spots.

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

It goes without saying.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Give the Devil his due.

The leopard does not change his spots.

The more the merrier.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

Manners maketh the man.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

It never rains but it pours.

Third time lucky.

Bread always falls buttered side down.

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

Clothes do not make the man.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

Only fools and horses work.

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

East, west, home's best.

Share and share alike.

Time flies.

It takes two to tango.

All things must pass.

Practice makes perfect.

Count your blessings.

Make love not war.

Variety is the spice of life.

Don't shoot the messenger.

Fight fire with fire.

Never go to bed on an argument.

There's one born every minute.

A watched pot never boils.

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

A prophet is not recognized in his own land.

Good fences make good neighbours.

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

Live and let live.

Bad news travels fast.

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Make hay while the sun shines.

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

Once a thief, always a thief.

Curiosity killed the cat.

Revenge is sweet.

The best-laid plans go astray.

Fair exchange is no robbery.

You win some, you lose some.

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

An army marches on its stomach.

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

You are what you eat.

As you sow, so you shall reap.

Accidents will happen.

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

Don't rock the boat.

Money talks.

Let the dead bury the dead.

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Don't mix business with pleasure.

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

When in Rome, do as Romans do.

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

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Better safe than sorry.

Appearances can be deceptive.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Get out while the getting is good.

Don't let the cat out of the bag.

The Devil looks after his own.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Slow but sure.

It's best to be on the safe side.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

Once bitten, twice shy.

The bread always falls buttered side down.

Better late than never.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

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

When one door shuts, another opens.

Money makes the world go round.

Blood is thicker than water.

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

Walls have ears.

Life is what you make it.

Tomorrow never comes.

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

Every picture tells a story.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

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

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

Beauty is only skin deep.

Two heads are better than one.

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

April showers bring forth May flowers.

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

A thing begun is half done.

Each to their own.

There's no place like home.

Forgive and forget.

There are two sides to every question.

The wages of sin is death.

The truth will out.

While there is life, there is hope.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Time will tell.

Every dog has its day.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

First things first.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

Virtue is its own reward.

Haste makes waste.

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

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

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

Might is right.

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

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

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

A place for everything and everything in its place.

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

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

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

Love is blind.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

Go the extra mile.

To every thing there is a season.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

Give credit where credit is due.

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

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

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

Good talk saves the food.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

Don't change horses in midstream.

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

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

Money is the root of all evil.

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

Any port in a storm.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

First impressions are the most lasting.

No man can serve two masters.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

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

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

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

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

The bigger, the better.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

What can't be cured must be endured.

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

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

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

Attack is the best form of defence.

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

Silence construes consent.

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

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

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

There's safety in numbers.

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

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

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

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Bad money drives out good.

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

It goes without saying.

It's easy to be wise after the event.

First come, first served.

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

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

Ignorance is bliss.

Nine tailors make a man.