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

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

A house is not a home.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

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

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

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Crime doesn't pay.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

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

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

Forewarned is forearmed.

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

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

Possession is nine points of the law.

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Empty bags cannot stand upright.

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

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

Give the Devil his due.

Shrouds have no pockets.

Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

Share and share alike.

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

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

Life begins at forty.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

Cheats never prosper.

Blood is thicker than water.

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

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

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

Into every life a little rain must fall.

No rest for the wicked.

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

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

Like father, like son.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

Patience is a virtue.

Go the extra mile.

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

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

A man is known by his friends.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

It's the singer not the song.

Beauty is only skin deep.

A word to the wise is enough.

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

Many hands make light work.

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

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

What goes around comes around.

Life is what you make it.

It goes without saying.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

Persuasion is better than force.

Birds of a feather flock together.

Tomorrow never comes.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Seeing is believing.

All roads lead to Rome.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

A golden key can open any door.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

Two heads are better than one.

Honesty is the best policy.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

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

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

There are two sides to every question.

The bread always falls buttered side down.

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

Only fools and horses work.

The best-laid plans go astray.

The leopard does not change his spots.

Walls have ears.

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

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

A cat has nine lives.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

Don't change horses in midstream.

A good man is hard to find.

Make hay while the sun shines.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

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

There's no smoke without fire.

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

Love makes the world go round.

You can't get blood out of a stone.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

Haste makes waste.

Never speak ill of the dead.

There's no time like the present.

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

Ignorance is bliss.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

Children and fools tell the truth.

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

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Every dog has its day.

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

It takes two to make a quarrel.

The early bird gets the worm.

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

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

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

Once a thief, always a thief.

The more the merrier.

If you play with fire, you will get burnt.

Seize the day.

Less is more.

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

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

You can't take it with you.

Charity begins at home.

There's an exception to every rule.

Learn to walk before you run.

A new broom sweeps clean.

No man can serve two masters.

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

A bad penny always turns up.

It's best to be on the safe side.

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

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

Rome wasn't built in a day.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

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

Tomorrow is another day.

Easy come, easy go.

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

Pride comes before a fall.

Let bygones be bygones.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

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

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

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

A picture paints a thousand words.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

A thing begun is half done.

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

Pearls of wisdom.

Even a worm will turn.

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

Seek and you shall find.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

There's safety in numbers.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

The truth will out.

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

What goes up must come down.

Always put your best foot forward.

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

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

Let the dead bury the dead.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

Faith will move mountains.

To every thing there is a season.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

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

Make love not war.

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

Love will find a way.

A poor worker blames the tools.

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

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

Look before you leap.

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

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

Fortune favours the brave.

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

Once bitten, twice shy.

Know which side your bread is buttered.

Children should be seen and not heard.

Do as I say, not as I do.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

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

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

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

A fish always rots from the head.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

One swallow does not a summer make.

A miss is as good as a mile.

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

Many are called, but few are chosen.

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

Never go to bed on an argument.

The longest journey starts with a single step.

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

Out of sight, out of mind.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Wonders will never cease.

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Live and learn.

A person is known by the company they keep.

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

Any port in a storm.

Don't meet troubles half-way.

Watch the doughnut, not the hole.

Better late than never.

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Waste not, want not.

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

Don't get mad, get even.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Count your blessings.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Never tell tales out of school.

East is east, and west is west.

All things must pass.

Flattery will get you nowhere.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

Worrying never did anyone any good.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Half a loaf is better than none.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

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

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

The exception which proves the rule.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Manners maketh the man.

Let the buyer beware.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Little pitchers have big ears.

Fish and guests smell after three days.

It takes two to tango.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Moderation in all things.

Nothing new under the sun.

Might is right.

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

All's well that ends well.

One hand washes the other.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

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

Variety is the spice of life.

Small things amuse small minds.

Accidents will happen.

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

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

Blue are the hills that are far away.

Great minds think alike.

If you build it, they will come.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

Good fences make good neighbours.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

God helps those who help themselves.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Forgive and forget.

One good deed deserves another.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

Time and tide wait for no one.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

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

There's no fool like an old fool.

Good talk saves the food.

First come, first served.

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

East, west, home's best.

Put your best foot forward.

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

Everyone has their price.

It's better to give than to receive.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

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

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

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

Hide in plain sight.

Christmas comes but once a year.

Good things come to those who wait.

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

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

Live and let live.

The bottom line is the bottom line.

Laughter is the best medicine.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

All's fair in love and war.

You can't win them all.

The customer is always right.

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

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

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

Curiosity killed the cat.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Grief divided is made lighter.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

Physician, heal thyself.

A stitch in time saves nine.

Let well alone.

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

Don't shoot the messenger.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

A problem shared is a problem halved.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.

Every picture tells a story.

Time is a great healer.

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

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

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Cold hands, warm heart.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Time is money.

Silence is golden.

Opposites attract.

Business before pleasure.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

Dead men tell no tales.

Make haste slowly.

The best things in life are free.

Keep your chin up.

He who hesitates is lost.

A leopard can't change its spots.

Life's not all beer and skittles.

Practice makes perfect.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

Love is blind.

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

History repeats itself.

Time flies.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

First impressions are the most lasting.

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

All the world loves a lover.

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

It's easy to be wise after the event.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

You can't make bricks without straw.

Appearances can be deceptive.

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

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

Nine tailors make a man.

What can't be cured must be endured.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

No pain, no gain.

Don't rock the boat.

There is no accounting for tastes.

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

Bad news travels fast.

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

Only the good die young.

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

You are never too old to learn.

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

Misery loves company.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Horses for courses.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

Don't mix business with pleasure.

Slow but sure.

You win some, you lose some.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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

Revenge is sweet.

The best defence is a good offence.

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

Actions speak louder than words.

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

An man's home is his castle.

The Devil is in the details.

Fight fire with fire.

Good things come in small packages.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

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

Virtue is its own reward.

Beware the Ides of March.

Oil and water don't mix.

Penny wise and pound foolish.

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

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

The bigger, the better.

The apple never falls far from the tree.

Don't upset the apple-cart.

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

Quid pro quo.

There's one born every minute.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

There's a time and a place for everything.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

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

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

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

Attack is the best form of defence.

The wages of sin is death.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Don't throw good money after bad.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

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

While there is life, there is hope.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Third time lucky.

A prophet is not recognized in his own land.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

It's all grist to the mill.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

Give credit where credit is due.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

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

A cat may look at a king.

Strike while the iron is hot.

Time will tell.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

You reap what you sow.

Fight the good fight.

Big fish eat little fish.

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Practice what you preach.

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

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

When in Rome, do as Romans do.

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

Money isn't everything.

The show must go on.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

The end justifies the means.

Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

Less said, soon mended.

There's no place like home.

Another day, another dollar.

As you sow, so you shall reap.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

The Devil has all the best tunes.

Don't let the cat out of the bag.

No news is good news.

It never rains but it pours.

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

It's never too late to mend.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

If the cap fits, wear it.

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

One hand washes the other.

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

Truth will out.

Money talks.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Still waters run deep.

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

All good things come to those that wait.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

Each to their own.

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

All good things must come to an end.

Money makes the world go round.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

Paddle your own canoe.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

To the victor go the spoils.

The Devil looks after his own.

Every stick has two ends.

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

You are what you eat.