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

Don't mix business with pleasure.

Out of sight, out of mind.

In the midst of life we are in death.

There's no place like home.

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

Share and share alike.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

A poor worker blames the tools.

Go the extra mile.

Patience is a virtue.

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

If you can't be good, be careful.

Less is more.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Put your best foot forward.

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

Haste makes waste.

Less said, soon mended.

Many are called, but few are chosen.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

A picture paints a thousand words.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

Let the dead bury the dead.

All's well that ends well.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

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

The best-laid plans go astray.

A thing begun is half done.

The exception which proves the rule.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Even a worm will turn.

Enough is enough.

Waste not, want not.

Time is money.

As you sow, so you shall reap.

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

Silence construes consent.

Silence is golden.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

Slow but sure.

Little pitchers have big ears.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

Grief divided is made lighter.

There's no smoke without fire.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

The bottom line is the bottom line.

Clothes do not make the man.

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

You can't always get what you want.

It's best to be on the safe side.

A man is known by his friends.

It's better to give than to receive.

Enough is as good as a feast.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Hide in plain sight.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

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

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

More haste, less speed.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Children and fools tell the truth.

A golden key can open any door.

Only fools and horses work.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

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

Cold hands, warm heart.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

Needs must when the devil drives.

Pride comes before a fall.

The Devil makes work for idle hands.

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Christmas comes but once a year.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Blood is thicker than water.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

To every thing there is a season.

You win some, you lose some.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

What goes up must come down.

Live and let live.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

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

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

What goes around comes around.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

April showers bring forth May flowers.

Fish and guests smell after three days.

Money talks.

Still waters run deep.

Nine tailors make a man.

A problem shared is a problem halved.

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

Seek and you shall find.

Half a loaf is better than none.

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

Nothing new under the sun.

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

A person is known by the company they keep.

You can have too much of a good thing.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

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

Never speak ill of the dead.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Hope springs eternal.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Money makes the world go round.

First impressions are the most lasting.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

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

Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

An man's home is his castle.

Good fences make good neighbours.

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

Love of money is the root of all evil.

Actions speak louder than words.

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

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Virtue is its own reward.

All the world loves a lover.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

Charity begins at home.

A prophet is not recognized in his own land.

All you need is love.

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

Empty bags cannot stand upright.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

You can't win them all.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

Shrouds have no pockets.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

First things first.

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

Good things come in small packages.

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

Faith will move mountains.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Always put your best foot forward.

Moderation in all things.

All roads lead to Rome.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

Keep your powder dry.

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

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

Laughter is the best medicine.

Two heads are better than one.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

One swallow does not a summer make.

Make love not war.

A cat has nine lives.

Live and learn.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

Money is the root of all evil.

The leopard does not change his spots.

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

The end justifies the means.

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

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

The customer is always right.

Accidents will happen.

Practice what you preach.

Misery loves company.

Small things amuse small minds.

Quid pro quo.

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

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

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

The best defence is a good offence.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

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

It never rains but it pours.

A bad penny always turns up.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

When one door shuts, another opens.

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

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

The age of miracles is past.

Truth will out.

Never go to bed on an argument.

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

A dog is a man's best friend.

Life begins at forty.

Business before pleasure.

The longest journey starts with a single step.

It takes two to tango.

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

The bread always falls buttered side down.

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

The best things in life are free.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Honesty is the best policy.

Don't upset the apple-cart.

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

When in Rome, do as Romans do.

Beware the Ides of March.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

Cheats never prosper.

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

If the cap fits, wear it.

It goes without saying.

There is no accounting for tastes.

One hand washes the other.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Like father, like son.

You can't get blood out of a stone.

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

Good talk saves the food.

Big fish eat little fish.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

Don't meet troubles half-way.

Wonders will never cease.

Learn to walk before you run.

Practice makes perfect.

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

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

What can't be cured must be endured.

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

Let the buyer beware.

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

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

All good things must come to an end.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

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

Everyone has their price.

All things must pass.

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

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

The wages of sin is death.

Handsome is as handsome does.

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

Time is a great healer.

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

Strike while the iron is hot.

Love makes the world go round.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

No man is an island.

Oil and water don't mix.

Don't change horses in midstream.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

Possession is nine points of the law.

Every picture tells a story.

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

It's easy to be wise after the event.

Beauty is only skin deep.

Marriages are made in heaven.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Money isn't everything.

There's a time and a place for everything.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

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

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

Let bygones be bygones.

There's no fool like an old fool.

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

Time flies.

Many hands make light work.

The Devil is in the details.

Don't let the cat out of the bag.

There are two sides to every question.

Every stick has two ends.

It takes one to know one.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

Fight the good fight.

Count your blessings.

Time and tide wait for no one.

Once a thief, always a thief.

There's an exception to every rule.

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Only the good die young.

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

There's one born every minute.

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

You are never too old to learn.

Bad money drives out good.

Seize the day.

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

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

The apple never falls far from the tree.

He who hesitates is lost.

Bread always falls buttered side down.

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

Manners maketh the man.

If you play with fire, you will get burnt.

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

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

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

A fish always rots from the head.

Different strokes for different folks.

Don't rock the boat.

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

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

Give the Devil his due.

Beggars can't be choosers.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

East is east, and west is west.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

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

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Bad news travels fast.

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

Life is what you make it.

Persuasion is better than force.

Watch the doughnut, not the hole.

Know which side your bread is buttered.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

Never tell tales out of school.

A miss is as good as a mile.

Worrying never did anyone any good.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

A leopard can't change its spots.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Home is where the heart is.

There is honour among thieves.

Life's not all beer and skittles.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

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

Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

Don't get mad, get even.

Might is right.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

Great minds think alike.

To the victor go the spoils.

Knowledge is power.

Fight fire with fire.

The Devil looks after his own.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

For everything there is a season.

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

You are what you eat.

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

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

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

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Easy come, easy go.

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

Man does not live by bread alone.

The show must go on.

Better late than never.

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

It takes two to make a quarrel.

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

Look before you leap.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

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

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

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

Time will tell.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

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

Tomorrow never comes.

One good deed deserves another.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

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

Flattery will get you nowhere.

Love will find a way.

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

Dead men tell no tales.

Make haste slowly.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

Let well alone.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

A word to the wise is enough.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

All good things come to those that wait.

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

Once bitten, twice shy.

Don't shoot the messenger.

All's fair in love and war.

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

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Forewarned is forearmed.

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

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

Another day, another dollar.

It's never too late to mend.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

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

A stitch in time saves nine.

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

There's no time like the present.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Walls have ears.

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

Paddle your own canoe.

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

No man can serve two masters.

Tomorrow is another day.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Physician, heal thyself.

Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

The bigger, the better.

First come, first served.

A good man is hard to find.

Pearls of wisdom.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

The Devil has all the best tunes.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Better safe than sorry.

Birds of a feather flock together.

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

Fortune favours the brave.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

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

No pain, no gain.

You reap what you sow.

Fortune favours the brave.

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

Get out while the getting is good.

East, west, home's best.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

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

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

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

You can't take it with you.

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

Love is blind.

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

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Children should be seen and not heard.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

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

An army marches on its stomach.

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Revenge is sweet.

The more the merrier.

Seeing is believing.

All publicity is good publicity.

A watched pot never boils.

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

A cat may look at a king.

Talk is cheap.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

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

There's safety in numbers.

A house is not a home.

Opposites attract.

Never give a sucker an even break.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

Make hay while the sun shines.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Give credit where credit is due.

Appearances can be deceptive.

It takes all sorts to make a world.