Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

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

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

Pride comes before a fall.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

It never rains but it pours.

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

A person is known by the company they keep.

A bad penny always turns up.

Actions speak louder than words.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

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

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

Strike while the iron is hot.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

Once bitten, twice shy.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

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

Hide in plain sight.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

A cat may look at a king.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

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

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

More haste, less speed.

While there is life, there is hope.

No pain, no gain.

Fair exchange is no robbery.

Let the dead bury the dead.

No rest for the wicked.

Fortune favours the brave.

Count your blessings.

An army marches on its stomach.

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

To err is human; to forgive divine.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

Blood is thicker than water.

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

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

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

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

Bad money drives out good.

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

The wages of sin is death.

Never give a sucker an even break.

Make hay while the sun shines.

The bread always falls buttered side down.

All good things must come to an end.

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

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

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

Penny wise and pound foolish.

Every dog has its day.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

To the victor go the spoils.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

You can't take it with you.

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

Love of money is the root of all evil.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

Give credit where credit is due.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Forgive and forget.

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

Accidents will happen.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

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

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

The customer is always right.

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

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

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

There's no place like home.

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

If you build it, they will come.

A leopard can't change its spots.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

No news is good news.

The Devil is in the details.

Empty bags cannot stand upright.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

A good man is hard to find.

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Enough is as good as a feast.

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

Might is right.

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

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

Knowledge is power.

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

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

The leopard does not change his spots.

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

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

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

Everyone has their price.

Charity begins at home.

It takes one to know one.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

A stitch in time saves nine.

It's never too late to mend.

Money makes the world go round.

A man is known by his friends.

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

A picture paints a thousand words.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Better safe than sorry.

Give the Devil his due.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

There's a time and a place for everything.

Only the good die young.

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

A fish always rots from the head.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

Don't mix business with pleasure.

All roads lead to Rome.

Share and share alike.

Silence construes consent.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

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

Get out while the getting is good.

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

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

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

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

Fish and guests smell after three days.

Little pitchers have big ears.

Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

Small things amuse small minds.

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

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

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

Never tell tales out of school.

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

The exception which proves the rule.

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

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

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Faith will move mountains.

Keep your powder dry.

No man can serve two masters.

All things must pass.

All publicity is good publicity.

Speak as you find.

Attack is the best form of defence.

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

The age of miracles is past.

Clothes do not make the man.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

You can't get blood out of a stone.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

There's an exception to every rule.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

The more the merrier.

You can have too much of a good thing.

Ignorance is bliss.

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

Beware the Ides of March.

Two heads are better than one.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Every picture tells a story.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Live and learn.

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

It goes without saying.

The Devil makes work for idle hands.

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

Virtue is its own reward.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

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

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

You are what you eat.

A dog is a man's best friend.

Shrouds have no pockets.

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

Good fences make good neighbours.

Every stick has two ends.

Enough is enough.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Keep your chin up.

To every thing there is a season.

Many hands make light work.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

April showers bring forth May flowers.

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

The best defence is a good offence.

A word to the wise is enough.

There is no accounting for tastes.

Youth is wasted on the young.

A house is not a home.

Patience is a virtue.

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

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

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

Go the extra mile.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Any port in a storm.

Needs must when the devil drives.

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

Waste not, want not.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

There are two sides to every question.

Practice makes perfect.

First impressions are the most lasting.

Don't change horses in midstream.

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

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

One swallow does not a summer make.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

Don't meet troubles half-way.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

Many are called, but few are chosen.

Easy come, easy go.

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

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

East, west, home's best.

The pen is mightier than sword.

Home is where the heart is.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

Money talks.

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

Slow but sure.

There's safety in numbers.

Do as I say, not as I do.

The end justifies the means.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

Beauty is only skin deep.

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Like father, like son.

Each to their own.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

You are never too old to learn.

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

A cat has nine lives.

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

One hand washes the other.

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

Variety is the spice of life.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Horses for courses.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Put your best foot forward.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

Good things come to those who wait.

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

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

Fight fire with fire.

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

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

It takes two to tango.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Physician, heal thyself.

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

Pearls of wisdom.

Third time lucky.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Big fish eat little fish.

Children and fools tell the truth.

You can't win them all.

Better late than never.

All's well that ends well.

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

A thing begun is half done.

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

Time is a great healer.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

In the midst of life we are in death.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

Seize the day.

Make haste slowly.

Beggars can't be choosers.

Walls have ears.

A watched pot never boils.

Honesty is the best policy.

Let bygones be bygones.

Haste makes waste.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

If you play with fire, you will get burnt.

When one door shuts, another opens.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

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

Practice what you preach.

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

A rising tide lifts all boats.

Love will find a way.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Nothing succeeds like success.

A poor worker blames the tools.

You win some, you lose some.

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

Business before pleasure.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Quid pro quo.

Great minds think alike.

If you can't be good, be careful.

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

Hope springs eternal.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

Money isn't everything.

One good deed deserves another.

A new broom sweeps clean.

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

An man's home is his castle.

Less is more.

Dead men tell no tales.

There's one born every minute.

The bottom line is the bottom line.

Never speak ill of the dead.

Once a thief, always a thief.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Opposites attract.

Less said, soon mended.

Silence is golden.

Out of sight, out of mind.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

Marriages are made in heaven.

The best-laid plans go astray.

What can't be cured must be endured.

God helps those who help themselves.

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

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

Nine tailors make a man.

Different strokes for different folks.

Don't let the cat out of the bag.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

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

All good things come to those that wait.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Make love not war.

Crime doesn't pay.

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

All the world loves a lover.

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

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Talk is cheap.

Love is blind.

Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.

Another day, another dollar.

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

Good talk saves the food.

It's easy to be wise after the event.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Cheats never prosper.

Time will tell.

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

What goes around comes around.

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

All's fair in love and war.

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

Revenge is sweet.

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

You can't always get what you want.

Wonders will never cease.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

Bread always falls buttered side down.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Even a worm will turn.

Never go to bed on an argument.

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

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

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

You can't judge a book by its cover.

Appearances can be deceptive.

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

Let the buyer beware.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

Tomorrow never comes.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

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

He who hesitates is lost.

Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

The Devil has all the best tunes.

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

As you sow, so you shall reap.

Life is what you make it.

Grief divided is made lighter.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

The bigger, the better.

Don't throw good money after bad.

A miss is as good as a mile.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

The best things in life are free.

Love makes the world go round.

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

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

Seek and you shall find.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

The longest journey starts with a single step.

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

Know which side your bread is buttered.

Flattery will get you nowhere.

All that glitters is not gold.

Persuasion is better than force.

Don't rock the boat.

A problem shared is a problem halved.

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

Worrying never did anyone any good.

The Devil looks after his own.

Possession is nine points of the law.

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Moderation in all things.

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

Watch the doughnut, not the hole.

Christmas comes but once a year.

Tomorrow is another day.

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

Money is the root of all evil.

Don't upset the apple-cart.

Don't shoot the messenger.

It's best to be on the safe side.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

The early bird gets the worm.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

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

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

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

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

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

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

Children should be seen and not heard.

Don't get mad, get even.

Still waters run deep.

Half a loaf is better than none.

You can't make bricks without straw.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

It's better to give than to receive.

Oil and water don't mix.

Nothing new under the sun.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

For everything there is a season.

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

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

Life begins at forty.

There is honour among thieves.

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

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

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

Look before you leap.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

Life's not all beer and skittles.

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

It's the singer not the song.

Time and tide wait for no one.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

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

Money doesn't grow on trees.

Paddle your own canoe.

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

Manners maketh the man.

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Misery loves company.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

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

East is east, and west is west.

Laughter is the best medicine.

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

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

First come, first served.

Truth will out.

If the cap fits, wear it.