Charity covers a multitude of sins.

Know which side your bread is buttered.

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

Enough is as good as a feast.

Share and share alike.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

Accidents will happen.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

Make haste slowly.

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

Don't blow your own trumpet.

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

Better late than never.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

April showers bring forth May flowers.

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

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

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

A person is known by the company they keep.

All you need is love.

Pride comes before a fall.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Strike while the iron is hot.

Christmas comes but once a year.

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

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

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

Slow and steady wins the race.

No man can serve two masters.

Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Tomorrow never comes.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Live and let live.

Love is blind.

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

You can have too much of a good thing.

Don't get mad, get even.

Practice what you preach.

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

All's well that ends well.

Every picture tells a story.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

A stitch in time saves nine.

Learn to walk before you run.

Each to their own.

First come, first served.

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

The pen is mightier than sword.

The truth will out.

He who hesitates is lost.

Life begins at forty.

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

All that glitters is not gold.

You are what you eat.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

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

A word to the wise is enough.

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

Hope springs eternal.

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

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

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

Good things come in small packages.

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

Every dog has its day.

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

East, west, home's best.

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

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

Silence is golden.

It's best to be on the safe side.

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

Might is right.

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

You are never too old to learn.

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

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

All roads lead to Rome.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

Small things amuse small minds.

Make hay while the sun shines.

Easy come, easy go.

Nothing succeeds like success.

The age of miracles is past.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

A house is not a home.

The end justifies the means.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

Life is what you make it.

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

It's never too late to mend.

One swallow does not a summer make.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

Love makes the world go round.

The best-laid plans go astray.

Quid pro quo.

Worrying never did anyone any good.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

It never rains but it pours.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Waste not, want not.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

More haste, less speed.

Revenge is sweet.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Time is a great healer.

A new broom sweeps clean.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Silence construes consent.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

All things must pass.

There's one born every minute.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Fish and guests smell after three days.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

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

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

Good talk saves the food.

No news is good news.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

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

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Persuasion is better than force.

The early bird gets the worm.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

The best things in life are free.

Let the buyer beware.

A picture paints a thousand words.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Seeing is believing.

Faith will move mountains.

Shrouds have no pockets.

Fight fire with fire.

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

Good things come to those who wait.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

No man is an island.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

Hide in plain sight.

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

For everything there is a season.

Opposites attract.

Never give a sucker an even break.

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

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

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

If the cap fits, wear it.

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

A leopard can't change its spots.

It takes two to tango.

Clothes do not make the man.

A watched pot never boils.

There's no place like home.

Slow but sure.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

Laughter is the best medicine.

There's a time and a place for everything.

Children should be seen and not heard.

To every thing there is a season.

Great minds think alike.

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

In the midst of life we are in death.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

The leopard does not change his spots.

Nothing new under the sun.

Manners maketh the man.

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

All's fair in love and war.

Let the dead bury the dead.

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

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

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

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

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

Better safe than sorry.

Speak as you find.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Home is where the heart is.

Blood is thicker than water.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

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

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

When one door shuts, another opens.

The best defence is a good offence.

Forewarned is forearmed.

Don't upset the apple-cart.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

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

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

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

A fish always rots from the head.

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

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

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

Never tell tales out of school.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Actions speak louder than words.

Flattery will get you nowhere.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Less said, soon mended.

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

Once a thief, always a thief.

Cold hands, warm heart.

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

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

It takes one to know one.

The Devil makes work for idle hands.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

Man does not live by bread alone.

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

Moderation in all things.

There is no accounting for tastes.

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

Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

There's no fool like an old fool.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

There's safety in numbers.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

The apple never falls far from the tree.

Curiosity killed the cat.

Patience is a virtue.

Business before pleasure.

If you build it, they will come.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

Live and learn.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Time and tide wait for no one.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

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

One hand washes the other.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

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

Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

If you can't be good, be careful.

Beware the Ides of March.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

Any port in a storm.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

You reap what you sow.

Seize the day.

Truth will out.

Time is money.

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

Don't rock the boat.

Possession is nine points of the law.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

While there is life, there is hope.

Beauty is only skin deep.

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

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

Children and fools tell the truth.

As you sow, so you shall reap.

Once bitten, twice shy.

Like father, like son.

What can't be cured must be endured.

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

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

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

Enough is enough.

Third time lucky.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

Don't change horses in midstream.

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

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

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

The Devil looks after his own.

Good fences make good neighbours.

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

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

First things first.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

Marriages are made in heaven.

The bigger, the better.

A cat may look at a king.

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

Two heads are better than one.

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

A poor worker blames the tools.

Pearls of wisdom.

What goes up must come down.

You can't make bricks without straw.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

Bad money drives out good.

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

The Devil has all the best tunes.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

It's all grist to the mill.

You can't win them all.

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

The customer is always right.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

All good things must come to an end.

Wonders will never cease.

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

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

Many hands make light work.

Always put your best foot forward.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

Half a loaf is better than none.

Handsome is as handsome does.

It's better to give than to receive.

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

An army marches on its stomach.

Never go to bed on an argument.

Less is more.

You can't always get what you want.

The bottom line is the bottom line.

Go the extra mile.

A man is known by his friends.

Fight the good fight.

Charity begins at home.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

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

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

It goes without saying.

Ignorance is bliss.

There's an exception to every rule.

Never speak ill of the dead.

Crime doesn't pay.

The wages of sin is death.

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

Oil and water don't mix.

Watch the doughnut, not the hole.

Another day, another dollar.

Dead men tell no tales.

Everyone has their price.

Let bygones be bygones.

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

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

It's easy to be wise after the event.

Life's not all beer and skittles.

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

Put your best foot forward.

A good man is hard to find.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

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

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

All publicity is good publicity.

A prophet is not recognized in his own land.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Big fish eat little fish.

To the victor go the spoils.

Penny wise and pound foolish.

All the world loves a lover.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

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

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

A golden key can open any door.

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Appearances can be deceptive.

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

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

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Horses for courses.

Even a worm will turn.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

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

Many are called, but few are chosen.

First impressions are the most lasting.

Get out while the getting is good.

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

When in Rome, do as Romans do.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

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

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

There's no time like the present.

Don't meet troubles half-way.

Don't mix business with pleasure.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Paddle your own canoe.

The exception which proves the rule.

Love will find a way.

Fortune favours the brave.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

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

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

Keep your powder dry.

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

Misery loves company.

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

A dog is a man's best friend.

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

Give credit where credit is due.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

Fair exchange is no robbery.

The more the merrier.

Walls have ears.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

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

Bread always falls buttered side down.

Knowledge is power.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

There is honour among thieves.

There are two sides to every question.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Make love not war.

Time flies.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

Seek and you shall find.

The show must go on.

Only fools and horses work.

Nine tailors make a man.

Money makes the world go round.

You can't get blood out of a stone.

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

It's the singer not the song.

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

Let the buyer beware.

A bad penny always turns up.

The Devil is in the details.

Don't throw good money after bad.

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

No pain, no gain.

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

A rising tide lifts all boats.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Honesty is the best policy.

Don't shoot the messenger.

No rest for the wicked.

Don't let the cat out of the bag.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

All good things come to those that wait.

Birds of a feather flock together.

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

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

Tomorrow is another day.

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

Still waters run deep.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

A miss is as good as a mile.

Talk is cheap.

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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

History repeats itself.

Every stick has two ends.

Only the good die young.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

You win some, you lose some.

Different strokes for different folks.

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

Haste makes waste.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Look before you leap.