Only fools and horses work.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

Only the good die young.

In the midst of life we are in death.

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

Look before you leap.

There's a time and a place for everything.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

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

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

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Time will tell.

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

You win some, you lose some.

Strike while the iron is hot.

Accidents will happen.

Children should be seen and not heard.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Beauty is only skin deep.

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

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

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

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

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

Quid pro quo.

Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

Good things come to those who wait.

Patience is a virtue.

Easy come, easy go.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

Misery loves company.

Nothing succeeds like success.

All things must pass.

Get out while the getting is good.

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

No news is good news.

Attack is the best form of defence.

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

Seize the day.

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

Manners maketh the man.

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

You can't take it with you.

Seek and you shall find.

It's the singer not the song.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

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

Christmas comes but once a year.

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

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

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

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

Man does not live by bread alone.

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

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

You can't make bricks without straw.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

Paddle your own canoe.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Seeing is believing.

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

Silence is golden.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Love of money is the root of all evil.

Money is the root of all evil.

The bigger, the better.

A poor worker blames the tools.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

Good fences make good neighbours.

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

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

April showers bring forth May flowers.

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

The course of true love never did run smooth.

The Devil has all the best tunes.

Marriages are made in heaven.

To the victor go the spoils.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

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

To every thing there is a season.

What goes around comes around.

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

While there is life, there is hope.

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

Honesty is the best policy.

The age of miracles is past.

Many are called, but few are chosen.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

The best is the enemy of the good.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Fight fire with fire.

The best things in life are free.

All publicity is good publicity.

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

All the world loves a lover.

All's well that ends well.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Don't upset the apple-cart.

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

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

Don't meet troubles half-way.

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

There's no place like home.

Hope springs eternal.

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

Small things amuse small minds.

Forewarned is forearmed.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Knowledge is power.

Never speak ill of the dead.

Love will find a way.

Ignorance is bliss.

Never go to bed on an argument.

Pride comes before a fall.

There are two sides to every question.

Each to their own.

The truth will out.

Practice makes perfect.

There's one born every minute.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

The customer is always right.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Make hay while the sun shines.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

Life is what you make it.

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

Empty bags cannot stand upright.

Business before pleasure.

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

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

Better safe than sorry.

Cheats never prosper.

Pearls of wisdom.

A problem shared is a problem halved.

The end justifies the means.

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

Charity begins at home.

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

Keep your powder dry.

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

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

The Devil is in the details.

A fish always rots from the head.

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

One good deed deserves another.

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

Any port in a storm.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Don't mix business with pleasure.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

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

Two wrongs don't make a right.

A miss is as good as a mile.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

Beware the Ides of March.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Slow but sure.

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

You can't win them all.

Do as I say, not as I do.

Every picture tells a story.

Shrouds have no pockets.

Horses for courses.

It goes without saying.

Bad news travels fast.

The longest journey starts with a single step.

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

Blood is thicker than water.

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

It's best to be on the safe side.

The pen is mightier than sword.

Beggars can't be choosers.

The Devil makes work for idle hands.

Birds of a feather flock together.

Make love not war.

Worrying never did anyone any good.

Great minds think alike.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Speak as you find.

The show must go on.

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

A cat has nine lives.

Good talk saves the food.

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

Watch the doughnut, not the hole.

Fish and guests smell after three days.

The more the merrier.

For everything there is a season.

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

There's safety in numbers.

If you play with fire, you will get burnt.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

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

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

Still waters run deep.

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

Don't change horses in midstream.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

There's an exception to every rule.

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

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

There is honour among thieves.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

Wonders will never cease.

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

A house is not a home.

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

A thing begun is half done.

The wages of sin is death.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

All good things must come to an end.

Variety is the spice of life.

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

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

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

Enough is as good as a feast.

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

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

A rising tide lifts all boats.

A good man is hard to find.

Once a thief, always a thief.

Grief divided is made lighter.

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

Moderation in all things.

Curiosity killed the cat.

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

What can't be cured must be endured.

Opposites attract.

Handsome is as handsome does.

A prophet is not recognized in his own land.

Let the dead bury the dead.

All that glitters is not gold.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Crime doesn't pay.

The best defence is a good offence.

First things first.

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

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

You are never too old to learn.

Give the Devil his due.

Forgive and forget.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

Laughter is the best medicine.

Tomorrow is another day.

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

Go the extra mile.

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

Physician, heal thyself.

Possession is nine points of the law.

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

The apple never falls far from the tree.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

God helps those who help themselves.

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

When one door shuts, another opens.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Know which side your bread is buttered.

It's better to give than to receive.

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

Fortune favours the brave.

Let the buyer beware.

Revenge is sweet.

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

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

There's no fool like an old fool.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Good things come in small packages.

Clothes do not make the man.

Even a worm will turn.

All's fair in love and war.

No rest for the wicked.

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

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

All roads lead to Rome.

Practice what you preach.

Share and share alike.

A golden key can open any door.

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

Keep your chin up.

Children and fools tell the truth.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

It's easy to be wise after the event.

Like father, like son.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

Always put your best foot forward.

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

Never give a sucker an even break.

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

You can have too much of a good thing.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Waste not, want not.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

Oil and water don't mix.

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

No man can serve two masters.

You are what you eat.

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

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

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

Virtue is its own reward.

Bread always falls buttered side down.

If you can't be good, be careful.

Third time lucky.

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

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

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

You reap what you sow.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

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

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

Let well alone.

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

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

Big fish eat little fish.

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

Penny wise and pound foolish.

Love makes the world go round.

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

Live and let live.

A watched pot never boils.

Time is a great healer.

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

The exception which proves the rule.

Two heads are better than one.

Little pitchers have big ears.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Faith will move mountains.

Needs must when the devil drives.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

Everyone has their price.

Once bitten, twice shy.

Learn to walk before you run.

It takes one to know one.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

When in Rome, do as Romans do.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

The best-laid plans go astray.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

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

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

Might is right.

Silence construes consent.

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

Walls have ears.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

If the cap fits, wear it.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

All good things come to those that wait.

Half a loaf is better than none.

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

Dead men tell no tales.

Time and tide wait for no one.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

Live and learn.

There's no time like the present.

Money isn't everything.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

Time is money.

A cat may look at a king.

A person is known by the company they keep.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

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

Flattery will get you nowhere.

If you build it, they will come.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Put your best foot forward.

Give credit where credit is due.

A word to the wise is enough.

Persuasion is better than force.

A stitch in time saves nine.

There's no smoke without fire.

A picture paints a thousand words.

Different strokes for different folks.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

Nothing new under the sun.

The Devil looks after his own.

An man's home is his castle.

Money makes the world go round.

Talk is cheap.

A new broom sweeps clean.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

It takes two to tango.

Every stick has two ends.

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

A man is known by his friends.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

Life's not all beer and skittles.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

The bread always falls buttered side down.

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

Appearances can be deceptive.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

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

You can't see the forest for the trees.

Truth will out.

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

Nine tailors make a man.

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

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

There is no accounting for tastes.

Don't shoot the messenger.

History repeats itself.

Money talks.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

What goes up must come down.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Hide in plain sight.

Time flies.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

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

It's all grist to the mill.

You can't always get what you want.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

Home is where the heart is.

Don't throw good money after bad.

Many hands make light work.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

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

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

Don't let the cat out of the bag.

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.

Count your blessings.

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

East is east, and west is west.

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

Better late than never.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

No pain, no gain.

Never tell tales out of school.

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

Haste makes waste.

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

One hand washes the other.

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

He who hesitates is lost.

Don't rock the boat.

The bottom line is the bottom line.

Another day, another dollar.

Tomorrow never comes.

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

Fight the good fight.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

You can't get blood out of a stone.

Let bygones be bygones.

A dog is a man's best friend.

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

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.