Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Time and tide wait for no one.

All good things must come to an end.

There's an exception to every rule.

Silence is golden.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

There is no accounting for tastes.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

A miss is as good as a mile.

Don't change horses in midstream.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

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

Never go to bed on an argument.

It goes without saying.

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

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

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

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

All publicity is good publicity.

There are two sides to every question.

Appearances can be deceptive.

Accidents will happen.

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

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

A prophet is not recognized in his own land.

Crime doesn't pay.

The early bird gets the worm.

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

A golden key can open any door.

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

Children and fools tell the truth.

Many hands make light work.

Life is what you make it.

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

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

Only fools and horses work.

Physician, heal thyself.

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

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

Any port in a storm.

Flattery will get you nowhere.

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

Slow and steady wins the race.

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

No man can serve two masters.

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

The Devil has all the best tunes.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

A cat may look at a king.

Let bygones be bygones.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

Time is a great healer.

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

A man is known by his friends.

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

It's better to give than to receive.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Don't get mad, get even.

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

Don't mix business with pleasure.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Truth will out.

The pen is mightier than sword.

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

A good man is hard to find.

If the cap fits, wear it.

Less said, soon mended.

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

When one door shuts, another opens.

Money isn't everything.

Patience is a virtue.

Variety is the spice of life.

The bread always falls buttered side down.

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

A bad penny always turns up.

Hope springs eternal.

Seeing is believing.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

Charity begins at home.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Marriages are made in heaven.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

The best is the enemy of the good.

He who hesitates is lost.

All things must pass.

Better late than never.

Love is blind.

Seize the day.

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

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

Let the buyer beware.

Tomorrow is another day.

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

Every stick has two ends.

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

Worrying never did anyone any good.

The apple never falls far from the tree.

Each to their own.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

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

A new broom sweeps clean.

Forgive and forget.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

Walls have ears.

No news is good news.

All's well that ends well.

East is east, and west is west.

Life's not all beer and skittles.

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

Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.

Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

The leopard does not change his spots.

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

Keep your powder dry.

Horses for courses.

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

There's a time and a place for everything.

If you build it, they will come.

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

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

A poor worker blames the tools.

Fortune favours the brave.

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

All the world loves a lover.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

An man's home is his castle.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

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

Money talks.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

The bigger, the better.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

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

Fish and guests smell after three days.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Once a thief, always a thief.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

Possession is nine points of the law.

Give the Devil his due.

The longest journey starts with a single step.

Every dog has its day.

Nothing succeeds like success.

A cat has nine lives.

Look before you leap.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

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

All roads lead to Rome.

Beggars can't be choosers.

Better safe than sorry.

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

You are what you eat.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

Every picture tells a story.

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

Good fences make good neighbours.

It's the singer not the song.

Share and share alike.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

It's easy to be wise after the event.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

A thing begun is half done.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

A leopard can't change its spots.

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

There is honour among thieves.

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Nine tailors make a man.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

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

Jack of all trades, master of none.

Birds of a feather flock together.

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

First things first.

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

Strike while the iron is hot.

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

Money is the root of all evil.

Don't upset the apple-cart.

Third time lucky.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

Actions speak louder than words.

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

Let the dead bury the dead.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.

Once bitten, twice shy.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

The more the merrier.

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

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

While there is life, there is hope.

It takes two to tango.

Fight fire with fire.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

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

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

It takes one to know one.

Know which side your bread is buttered.

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

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

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

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

Empty bags cannot stand upright.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

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

Practice what you preach.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

In the midst of life we are in death.

A dog is a man's best friend.

All that glitters is not gold.

Children should be seen and not heard.

Oil and water don't mix.

There's one born every minute.

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

Quid pro quo.

Put your best foot forward.

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

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

Two heads are better than one.

Big fish eat little fish.

The wages of sin is death.

Half a loaf is better than none.

For everything there is a season.

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

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

A fish always rots from the head.

Speak as you find.

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

Don't cast pearls before swine.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Virtue is its own reward.

Enough is enough.

Pride comes before a fall.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Always put your best foot forward.

The age of miracles is past.

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

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

What goes around comes around.

One hand washes the other.

You reap what you sow.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Might is right.

Live and learn.

Watch the doughnut, not the hole.

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

Practice makes perfect.

East, west, home's best.

Beware the Ides of March.

Persuasion is better than force.

The Devil looks after his own.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

Attack is the best form of defence.

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

One swallow does not a summer make.

Like father, like son.

A picture paints a thousand words.

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

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

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

Dead men tell no tales.

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

Wonders will never cease.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Time is money.

God helps those who help themselves.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

It never rains but it pours.

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

A house is not a home.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Misery loves company.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

Blood is thicker than water.

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

When in Rome, do as Romans do.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

Ignorance is bliss.

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

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

Brevity is the soul of wit.

You are never too old to learn.

Love of money is the root of all evil.

Life begins at forty.

Tomorrow never comes.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

Man does not live by bread alone.

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

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

First come, first served.

The show must go on.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

You win some, you lose some.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

History repeats itself.

Silence construes consent.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

Don't rock the boat.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

The truth will out.

Everyone has their price.

Keep your chin up.

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

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

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

You can't get blood out of a stone.

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

A stitch in time saves nine.

Get out while the getting is good.

Go the extra mile.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

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

Grief divided is made lighter.

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

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

Don't throw good money after bad.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Never give a sucker an even break.

Don't let the cat out of the bag.

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

Bad news travels fast.

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

A watched pot never boils.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Paddle your own canoe.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

One good deed deserves another.

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

An army marches on its stomach.

Great minds think alike.

Beauty is only skin deep.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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

Don't shoot the messenger.

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

There's no place like home.

The Devil is in the details.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

The end justifies the means.

There's no time like the present.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

Time will tell.

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

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

Still waters run deep.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Talk is cheap.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

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

Bread always falls buttered side down.

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

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

Small things amuse small minds.

Don't meet troubles half-way.

Cold hands, warm heart.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Forewarned is forearmed.

Home is where the heart is.

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

Good talk saves the food.

The bottom line is the bottom line.

Fight the good fight.

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

All's fair in love and war.

Pearls of wisdom.

Enough is as good as a feast.

The best-laid plans go astray.

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

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

Give credit where credit is due.

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

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

Never speak ill of the dead.

Faith will move mountains.

You can't make bricks without straw.

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

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

The best defence is a good offence.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

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

Penny wise and pound foolish.

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Bad money drives out good.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

It's best to be on the safe side.

No man is an island.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

The customer is always right.

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

Nothing new under the sun.

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

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

A rising tide lifts all boats.

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

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

Slow but sure.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

The best things in life are free.

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Let well alone.

Different strokes for different folks.

To the victor go the spoils.

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

You can't always get what you want.

Do as I say, not as I do.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

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

A person is known by the company they keep.

Revenge is sweet.

Opposites attract.

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

Live and let live.

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

Waste not, want not.

All good things come to those that wait.

No rest for the wicked.

Make love not war.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

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

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

Curiosity killed the cat.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

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

No pain, no gain.

Manners maketh the man.

Another day, another dollar.

To every thing there is a season.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

Only the good die young.

There's no smoke without fire.

Make haste slowly.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

Little pitchers have big ears.

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

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

April showers bring forth May flowers.

Moderation in all things.

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

You can't win them all.

Count your blessings.

What goes up must come down.

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

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Cheats never prosper.

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

Even a worm will turn.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

The Devil makes work for idle hands.

First impressions are the most lasting.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

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

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

Share and share alike.

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

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

Make hay while the sun shines.

There's no fool like an old fool.