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

Make haste slowly.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

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

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Laughter is the best medicine.

One hand washes the other.

He who hesitates is lost.

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

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

Grief divided is made lighter.

Christmas comes but once a year.

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

East is east, and west is west.

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

All things must pass.

All good things must come to an end.

No news is good news.

A good man is hard to find.

Love makes the world go round.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Make hay while the sun shines.

The wages of sin is death.

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

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

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

The pen is mightier than sword.

All's well that ends well.

Fight fire with fire.

Don't get mad, get even.

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

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Hide in plain sight.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

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

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

All you need is love.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

A golden key can open any door.

It's better to give than to receive.

Enough is enough.

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

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

Keep your powder dry.

The Devil is in the details.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

A thing begun is half done.

The best is the enemy of the good.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

Every stick has two ends.

Enough is as good as a feast.

There's an exception to every rule.

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

Don't change horses in midstream.

All that glitters is not gold.

Less said, soon mended.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

It takes two to tango.

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

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

Time will tell.

Misery loves company.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

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

You can't judge a book by its cover.

You can't make bricks without straw.

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

Birds of a feather flock together.

Slow and steady wins the race.

The Devil looks after his own.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

Forewarned is forearmed.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

Always put your best foot forward.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

A picture paints a thousand words.

Cheats never prosper.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

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

Fortune favours the brave.

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

Two heads are better than one.

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

All the world loves a lover.

Variety is the spice of life.

A house is not a home.

The apple never falls far from the tree.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

Money makes the world go round.

There's no place like home.

Children should be seen and not heard.

It takes one to know one.

There is no accounting for tastes.

Business before pleasure.

Nothing new under the sun.

Curiosity killed the cat.

A bad penny always turns up.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

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

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

Live and learn.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

Persuasion is better than force.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

All roads lead to Rome.

Practice makes perfect.

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

Every cloud has a silver lining.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

A cat has nine lives.

Opposites attract.

A cat may look at a king.

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

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

You can't take it with you.

Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

There's no smoke without fire.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

Beware the Ides of March.

Get out while the getting is good.

Learn to walk before you run.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

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

Don't put the cart before the horse.

A word to the wise is enough.

Practice what you preach.

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

Quid pro quo.

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

A miss is as good as a mile.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

A person is known by the company they keep.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

Many are called, but few are chosen.

Ignorance is bliss.

Horses for courses.

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

The bread always falls buttered side down.

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

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

The bottom line is the bottom line.

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

Little pitchers have big ears.

In the midst of life we are in death.

There's a time and a place for everything.

Penny wise and pound foolish.

An army marches on its stomach.

Give the Devil his due.

Only the good die young.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Bread always falls buttered side down.

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

The best things in life are free.

Don't throw good money after bad.

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

One good deed deserves another.

Talk is cheap.

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

Silence is golden.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

One swallow does not a summer make.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

Hope springs eternal.

The leopard does not change his spots.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

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

Seeing is believing.

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

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

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

Home is where the heart is.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Don't mix business with pleasure.

What can't be cured must be endured.

To the victor go the spoils.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Never give a sucker an even break.

Half a loaf is better than none.

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

There's no time like the present.

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

Know which side your bread is buttered.

Third time lucky.

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

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

Great minds think alike.

Seize the day.

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

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

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Don't meet troubles half-way.

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

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

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

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

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

No rest for the wicked.

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

Beggars can't be choosers.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

Might is right.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

Worrying never did anyone any good.

Many hands make light work.

Keep your chin up.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

You reap what you sow.

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

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

Clothes do not make the man.

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

Let the buyer beware.

Let bygones be bygones.

Wonders will never cease.

Once a thief, always a thief.

Count your blessings.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.

The best-laid plans go astray.

You can't get blood out of a stone.

It goes without saying.

Once bitten, twice shy.

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

Children and fools tell the truth.

No man is an island.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Dead men tell no tales.

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

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

Manners maketh the man.

Love of money is the root of all evil.

Good fences make good neighbours.

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

Haste makes waste.

Honesty is the best policy.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

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

Stupid is as stupid does.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

If you can't be good, be careful.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Money is the root of all evil.

Even a worm will turn.

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

The truth will out.

Time is money.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

If you build it, they will come.

No man can serve two masters.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

Tomorrow never comes.

Look before you leap.

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

The end justifies the means.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

A watched pot never boils.

Less is more.

Slow but sure.

Money isn't everything.

A leopard can't change its spots.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Crime doesn't pay.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

You can't always get what you want.

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

Revenge is sweet.

There is honour among thieves.

Pearls of wisdom.

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

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

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

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

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

When the cat's away the mice will play.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

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

An empty vessel makes much noise.

Knowledge is power.

Every picture tells a story.

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

There's no fool like an old fool.

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

A fish always rots from the head.

It never rains but it pours.

Don't let the cat out of the bag.

Strike while the iron is hot.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Silence construes consent.

Give credit where credit is due.

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

Actions speak louder than words.

You win some, you lose some.

First impressions are the most lasting.

A man is known by his friends.

No pain, no gain.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

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

A poor worker blames the tools.

A stitch in time saves nine.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Small things amuse small minds.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

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

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Paddle your own canoe.

Love is blind.

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

Another day, another dollar.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

The customer is always right.

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

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

You can have too much of a good thing.

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

Seek and you shall find.

Faith will move mountains.

The exception which proves the rule.

You are what you eat.

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

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

Oil and water don't mix.

Handsome is as handsome does.

If the cap fits, wear it.

Share and share alike.

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

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

Familiarity breeds contempt.

There's one born every minute.

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

Let well alone.

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

Watch the doughnut, not the hole.

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

The early bird gets the worm.

Blood is thicker than water.

Any port in a storm.

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

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

Good talk saves the food.

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

Big fish eat little fish.

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

Life is what you make it.

Never speak ill of the dead.

Truth will out.

Only fools and horses work.

The show must go on.

The longest journey starts with a single step.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

An man's home is his castle.

Accidents will happen.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

Pride comes before a fall.

Patience is a virtue.

Nothing succeeds like success.

There's safety in numbers.

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

Love will find a way.

The bigger, the better.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

What goes around comes around.

It's all grist to the mill.

As you sow, so you shall reap.

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

A new broom sweeps clean.

Still waters run deep.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

Possession is nine points of the law.

Moderation in all things.

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

All's fair in love and war.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

First come, first served.

It's easy to be wise after the event.

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

It's the singer not the song.

Money talks.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

A dog is a man's best friend.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

Needs must when the devil drives.

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

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

Don't shoot the messenger.

First things first.

The age of miracles is past.

There are two sides to every question.

Go the extra mile.

April showers bring forth May flowers.

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

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

Fair exchange is no robbery.

Life begins at forty.

Charity begins at home.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

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

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

Every dog has its day.

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

The Devil has all the best tunes.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

It's best to be on the safe side.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

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

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

Easy come, easy go.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

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

When in Rome, do as Romans do.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Beauty is only skin deep.

Empty bags cannot stand upright.

To every thing there is a season.

Each to their own.

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

Speak as you find.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

Everyone has their price.

Don't upset the apple-cart.

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

Attack is the best form of defence.

While there is life, there is hope.

Tomorrow is another day.

For everything there is a season.

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

If you play with fire, you will get burnt.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

Good things come in small packages.

Marriages are made in heaven.

Never go to bed on an argument.

All publicity is good publicity.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Good things come to those who wait.

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

History repeats itself.

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

Make love not war.

Let the dead bury the dead.

The best defence is a good offence.

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

Time and tide wait for no one.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

It's never too late to mend.

Time is a great healer.

Bad news travels fast.

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

All good things come to those that wait.

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

Like father, like son.