Don't put new wine into old bottles.

Don't let the cat out of the bag.

Many are called, but few are chosen.

Ignorance is bliss.

The end justifies the means.

There's no place like home.

Two heads are better than one.

While there is life, there is hope.

East, west, home's best.

Beware the Ides of March.

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

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

The best defence is a good offence.

When one door shuts, another opens.

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

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

Marriages are made in heaven.

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

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

First impressions are the most lasting.

Flattery will get you nowhere.

Give the Devil his due.

He who hesitates is lost.

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

More haste, less speed.

Don't upset the apple-cart.

Give credit where credit is due.

Make hay while the sun shines.

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

No news is good news.

There's no fool like an old fool.

Shrouds have no pockets.

Actions speak louder than words.

Enough is as good as a feast.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

A thing begun is half done.

Cheats never prosper.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Love is blind.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

The exception which proves the rule.

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

Fair exchange is no robbery.

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

Everyone has their price.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Like father, like son.

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

A penny saved is a penny earned.

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

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

It takes all sorts to make a world.

Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.

If the cap fits, wear it.

A picture paints a thousand words.

Another day, another dollar.

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

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

It's never too late to mend.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

You are what you eat.

Still waters run deep.

Nine tailors make a man.

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

Beauty is only skin deep.

Love makes the world go round.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Slow and steady wins the race.

The show must go on.

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

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

It's easy to be wise after the event.

Hope springs eternal.

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

The age of miracles is past.

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

Less is more.

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

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

You reap what you sow.

Count your blessings.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Curiosity killed the cat.

The bottom line is the bottom line.

Any port in a storm.

Make haste slowly.

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

For everything there is a season.

Watch the doughnut, not the hole.

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

All good things come to those that wait.

The bread always falls buttered side down.

Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.

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

You can't see the forest for the trees.

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

Slow but sure.

The Devil looks after his own.

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

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

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

All publicity is good publicity.

Children and fools tell the truth.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

A fish always rots from the head.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

Never go to bed on an argument.

No pain, no gain.

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

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

Seeing is believing.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

All that glitters is not gold.

Tomorrow never comes.

Strike while the iron is hot.

Keep your chin up.

There is no accounting for tastes.

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

The wages of sin is death.

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

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

It's the singer not the song.

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

Let the dead bury the dead.

To every thing there is a season.

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

Practice what you preach.

There's a time and a place for everything.

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

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

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

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

Handsome is as handsome does.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

There are two sides to every question.

Don't meet troubles half-way.

Fish and guests smell after three days.

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

Always put your best foot forward.

Good things come in small packages.

When in Rome, do as Romans do.

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

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

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

Don't cast pearls before swine.

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

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

All the world loves a lover.

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

Enough is enough.

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Money is the root of all evil.

Misery loves company.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

A miss is as good as a mile.

Dead men tell no tales.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

The bigger, the better.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

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

Bread always falls buttered side down.

Might is right.

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

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

Once a thief, always a thief.

Nothing new under the sun.

One hand washes the other.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

A house is not a home.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

A new broom sweeps clean.

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

Cold hands, warm heart.

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

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Moderation in all things.

A cat has nine lives.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

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

If you build it, they will come.

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

God helps those who help themselves.

What goes around comes around.

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

Manners maketh the man.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Physician, heal thyself.

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

Never give a sucker an even break.

There's one born every minute.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Live and let live.

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

Paddle your own canoe.

Know which side your bread is buttered.

Don't mix business with pleasure.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

Haste makes waste.

No rest for the wicked.

A good man is hard to find.

Wonders will never cease.

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

What can't be cured must be endured.

The leopard does not change his spots.

Don't get mad, get even.

If you play with fire, you will get burnt.

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

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

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

Let the buyer beware.

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

One good deed deserves another.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Time and tide wait for no one.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

Christmas comes but once a year.

It's better to give than to receive.

The longest journey starts with a single step.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

If you can't be good, be careful.

The pen is mightier than sword.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

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

Quid pro quo.

The customer is always right.

Don't throw good money after bad.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

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

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

The best-laid plans go astray.

Only fools and horses work.

Make love not war.

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

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

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

Many hands make light work.

Opposites attract.

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

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

Learn to walk before you run.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

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

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

You can have too much of a good thing.

Good fences make good neighbours.

The apple never falls far from the tree.

What goes up must come down.

You can't win them all.

Live and learn.

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

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

Talk is cheap.

As you sow, so you shall reap.

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

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

A poor worker blames the tools.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

All's fair in love and war.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Share and share alike.

Possession is nine points of the law.

Never speak ill of the dead.

You are never too old to learn.

Don't change horses in midstream.

Knowledge is power.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

Forewarned is forearmed.

Small things amuse small minds.

History repeats itself.

Life begins at forty.

First come, first served.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

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

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

Life's not all beer and skittles.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

Horses for courses.

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

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

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

Time is money.

Crime doesn't pay.

Clothes do not make the man.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

It's best to be on the safe side.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Good things come to those who wait.

Faith will move mountains.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

Fortune favours the brave.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

The Devil is in the details.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

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

Truth will out.

Less said, soon mended.

Fight fire with fire.

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

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

Waste not, want not.

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

Good talk saves the food.

A problem shared is a problem halved.

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

It takes one to know one.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Practice makes perfect.

Only the good die young.

Better safe than sorry.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

Go the extra mile.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

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

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

Time is a great healer.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

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

A golden key can open any door.

Silence construes consent.

A word to the wise is enough.

Pride comes before a fall.

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

Do as I say, not as I do.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

Get out while the getting is good.

A cat may look at a king.

Silence is golden.

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

A leopard can't change its spots.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Youth is wasted on the young.

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

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

Forgive and forget.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

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

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

Little pitchers have big ears.

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

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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

Into every life a little rain must fall.

Life is what you make it.

Seek and you shall find.

All things must pass.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

Even a worm will turn.

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

A watched pot never boils.

An army marches on its stomach.

The more the merrier.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

Grief divided is made lighter.

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

East is east, and west is west.

A prophet is not recognized in his own land.

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

You can't take it with you.

Different strokes for different folks.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

Laughter is the best medicine.

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

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

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

Money isn't everything.

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

You can't get blood out of a stone.

Once bitten, twice shy.

Honesty is the best policy.

Half a loaf is better than none.

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

Third time lucky.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

Revenge is sweet.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

Big fish eat little fish.

There's safety in numbers.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

No man is an island.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Every picture tells a story.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

In the midst of life we are in death.

Every stick has two ends.

There's no time like the present.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

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

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

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

Accidents will happen.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

Children should be seen and not heard.

A man is known by his friends.

The Devil has all the best tunes.

Home is where the heart is.

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

A person is known by the company they keep.

Money makes the world go round.

No man can serve two masters.

Look before you leap.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Every dog has its day.

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

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

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

Money talks.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Let well alone.

Man does not live by bread alone.

Better late than never.

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

Time will tell.

It never rains but it pours.

Let bygones be bygones.

Worrying never did anyone any good.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

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

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

Bad news travels fast.

Pearls of wisdom.

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

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

Virtue is its own reward.

You can't always get what you want.

Beggars can't be choosers.

Variety is the spice of life.

A dog is a man's best friend.

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

Fight the good fight.

Stupid is as stupid does.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Business before pleasure.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

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

Put your best foot forward.

Seize the day.

Blood is thicker than water.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Great minds think alike.

April showers bring forth May flowers.

Attack is the best form of defence.

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

First things first.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

Don't shoot the messenger.

It's all grist to the mill.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Tomorrow is another day.

Patience is a virtue.

All roads lead to Rome.