An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Blood is thicker than water.

East, west, home's best.

You can't win them all.

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

Fish and guests smell after three days.

The apple never falls far from the tree.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

There are two sides to every question.

If you can't be good, be careful.

Don't shoot the messenger.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

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

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

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

It's all grist to the mill.

Like father, like son.

It's the singer not the song.

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

As you sow, so you shall reap.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

Tomorrow is another day.

Empty bags cannot stand upright.

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

Where there is smoke there is fire.

The age of miracles is past.

It takes one to know one.

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

Live and let live.

Ignorance is bliss.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

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

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

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

Cold hands, warm heart.

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

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

Cheats never prosper.

Slow and steady wins the race.

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

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

God helps those who help themselves.

Tomorrow never comes.

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

The leopard does not change his spots.

Always put your best foot forward.

History repeats itself.

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

A fish always rots from the head.

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

Hope springs eternal.

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

Forewarned is forearmed.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

All that glitters is not gold.

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

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

There's safety in numbers.

Once bitten, twice shy.

Even a worm will turn.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Time is a great healer.

No man is an island.

Time flies.

Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.

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

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

If you build it, they will come.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

There's no place like home.

First impressions are the most lasting.

Live and learn.

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

All's fair in love and war.

Honesty is the best policy.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

If you play with fire, you will get burnt.

A miss is as good as a mile.

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

Better late than never.

All good things come to those that wait.

Let bygones be bygones.

Let well alone.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

Seek and you shall find.

In the midst of life we are in death.

Time and tide wait for no one.

Shrouds have no pockets.

Love will find a way.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

You can have too much of a good thing.

Walls have ears.

Love of money is the root of all evil.

Time is money.

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

The Devil looks after his own.

A golden key can open any door.

A picture paints a thousand words.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

The bigger, the better.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

Easy come, easy go.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

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

Still waters run deep.

The Devil is in the details.

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

Strike while the iron is hot.

A man is known by his friends.

To the victor go the spoils.

You reap what you sow.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

He who hesitates is lost.

April showers bring forth May flowers.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Quid pro quo.

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

All things must pass.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

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

Less is more.

Let the buyer beware.

The early bird gets the worm.

Speak as you find.

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

Silence is golden.

If the cap fits, wear it.

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

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

Enough is enough.

A prophet is not recognized in his own land.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

Slow but sure.

Money is the root of all evil.

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

No news is good news.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Talk is cheap.

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

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

Don't change horses in midstream.

Let the dead bury the dead.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

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

Look before you leap.

Don't rock the boat.

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

Horses for courses.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

A dog is a man's best friend.

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

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

Love makes the world go round.

Good things come in small packages.

Actions speak louder than words.

Fair exchange is no robbery.

Give the Devil his due.

Seize the day.

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

Opposites attract.

There's no fool like an old fool.

Never speak ill of the dead.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

Money talks.

Put your best foot forward.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Never go to bed on an argument.

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

You can't always get what you want.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

Penny wise and pound foolish.

A good man is hard to find.

Keep your powder dry.

There's a time and a place for everything.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

Silence construes consent.

The customer is always right.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.

A word to the wise is enough.

Share and share alike.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

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

Wonders will never cease.

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

Hide in plain sight.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

Birds of a feather flock together.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

Good fences make good neighbours.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Count your blessings.

Money isn't everything.

There's an exception to every rule.

Home is where the heart is.

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

One swallow does not a summer make.

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

All the world loves a lover.

Every stick has two ends.

The truth will out.

Make haste slowly.

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

It's best to be on the safe side.

Third time lucky.

The end justifies the means.

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

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

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

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

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

Needs must when the devil drives.

No rest for the wicked.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

Every dog has its day.

One hand washes the other.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

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

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

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

Practice makes perfect.

The more the merrier.

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

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

It never rains but it pours.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

All publicity is good publicity.

The Devil has all the best tunes.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Laughter is the best medicine.

Once a thief, always a thief.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Clothes do not make the man.

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

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

Worrying never did anyone any good.

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

Make hay while the sun shines.

Dead men tell no tales.

One good deed deserves another.

There's one born every minute.

A cat has nine lives.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

Fight the good fight.

Beauty is only skin deep.

Paddle your own canoe.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

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

Every picture tells a story.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

Two heads are better than one.

A poor worker blames the tools.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

The best-laid plans go astray.

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

The best things in life are free.

To every thing there is a season.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

The pen is mightier than sword.

It's easy to be wise after the event.

First things first.

Attack is the best form of defence.

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

Children and fools tell the truth.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

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

Pearls of wisdom.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

You can't get blood out of a stone.

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

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

You can't make bricks without straw.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

While there is life, there is hope.

Go the extra mile.

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

Man does not live by bread alone.

Good talk saves the food.

You win some, you lose some.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Persuasion is better than force.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

The exception which proves the rule.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Each to their own.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

What can't be cured must be endured.

No pain, no gain.

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

When the cat's away the mice will play.

Accidents will happen.

Physician, heal thyself.

Little pitchers have big ears.

Life's not all beer and skittles.

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

Keep your chin up.

Possession is nine points of the law.

Great minds think alike.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Seeing is believing.

Many are called, but few are chosen.

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

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

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

A thing begun is half done.

A cat may look at a king.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

When one door shuts, another opens.

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

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

It takes all sorts to make a world.

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

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

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

You are what you eat.

The Devil makes work for idle hands.

Don't let the cat out of the bag.

Flattery will get you nowhere.

Nothing new under the sun.

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

Love is blind.

Watch the doughnut, not the hole.

Crime doesn't pay.

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

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

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Don't throw good money after bad.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

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

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

Patience is a virtue.

There is no accounting for tastes.

Moderation in all things.

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

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

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

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

Small things amuse small minds.

The bread always falls buttered side down.

First come, first served.

Don't mix business with pleasure.

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

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

Know which side your bread is buttered.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

The best defence is a good offence.

The show must go on.

Everyone has their price.

Beggars can't be choosers.

A house is not a home.

Faith will move mountains.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

Never give a sucker an even break.

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

A stitch in time saves nine.

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

Don't upset the apple-cart.

It takes two to tango.

When in Rome, do as Romans do.

The bottom line is the bottom line.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

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

Big fish eat little fish.

It's never too late to mend.

Forgive and forget.

The wages of sin is death.

Time will tell.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

Give credit where credit is due.

Virtue is its own reward.

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

What goes around comes around.

Misery loves company.

Truth will out.

Beware the Ides of March.

It's better to give than to receive.

It goes without saying.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

Don't get mad, get even.

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

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

Brevity is the soul of wit.

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

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

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

Good things come to those who wait.

All roads lead to Rome.

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

Christmas comes but once a year.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

A leopard can't change its spots.

Appearances can be deceptive.

Fight fire with fire.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Get out while the getting is good.

Bread always falls buttered side down.

Another day, another dollar.

Bad money drives out good.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

An man's home is his castle.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Only fools and horses work.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

Knowledge is power.

A new broom sweeps clean.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

For everything there is a season.

All good things must come to an end.

Only the good die young.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

Life is what you make it.

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

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

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

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

Nine tailors make a man.

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

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

Bad news travels fast.

Revenge is sweet.

Don't meet troubles half-way.

You are never too old to learn.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

When one door shuts, another opens.

There is honour among thieves.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Marriages are made in heaven.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

A person is known by the company they keep.

The longest journey starts with a single step.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Many hands make light work.

Different strokes for different folks.

Oil and water don't mix.

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

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

There's no time like the present.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

A bad penny always turns up.

Do as I say, not as I do.

Never tell tales out of school.

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

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

Variety is the spice of life.

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

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

Handsome is as handsome does.

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

Manners maketh the man.