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

Big fish eat little fish.

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

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

Honesty is the best policy.

The Devil has all the best tunes.

Many hands make light work.

Money isn't everything.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

More haste, less speed.

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

Never go to bed on an argument.

Birds of a feather flock together.

Needs must when the devil drives.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

Tomorrow is another day.

Christmas comes but once a year.

Wonders will never cease.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

All good things come to those that wait.

To the victor go the spoils.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Crime doesn't pay.

Home is where the heart is.

All you need is love.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

Faith will move mountains.

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

Different strokes for different folks.

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

The age of miracles is past.

The early bird gets the worm.

Waste not, want not.

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

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

The bread always falls buttered side down.

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

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

Pride comes before a fall.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

It takes one to know one.

Half a loaf is better than none.

Seize the day.

Business before pleasure.

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Less is more.

Patience is a virtue.

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

Still waters run deep.

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

Count your blessings.

Oil and water don't mix.

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

Life is what you make it.

One swallow does not a summer make.

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

Give the Devil his due.

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

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

It's the singer not the song.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Life begins at forty.

The end justifies the means.

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

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

A watched pot never boils.

Talk is cheap.

There's no smoke without fire.

Share and share alike.

Actions speak louder than words.

For everything there is a season.

Look before you leap.

Hope springs eternal.

As you sow, so you shall reap.

Let the buyer beware.

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

The wages of sin is death.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

History repeats itself.

If you build it, they will come.

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

The truth will out.

Put your best foot forward.

He who hesitates is lost.

A house is not a home.

Every stick has two ends.

There is honour among thieves.

Know which side your bread is buttered.

Laughter is the best medicine.

A fish always rots from the head.

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

Don't rock the boat.

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

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

Enough is enough.

A problem shared is a problem halved.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Virtue is its own reward.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

The pen is mightier than sword.

April showers bring forth May flowers.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

Children and fools tell the truth.

All roads lead to Rome.

What goes up must come down.

Live and learn.

Love will find a way.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Money makes the world go round.

Forgive and forget.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

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

Every picture tells a story.

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

Flattery will get you nowhere.

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

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

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Enough is as good as a feast.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.

An man's home is his castle.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

The Devil makes work for idle hands.

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

Don't meet troubles half-way.

Cheats never prosper.

The show must go on.

Seek and you shall find.

One hand washes the other.

Little pitchers have big ears.

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

A stitch in time saves nine.

The apple never falls far from the tree.

Every dog has its day.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Dead men tell no tales.

Great minds think alike.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

A golden key can open any door.

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

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

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Silence construes consent.

Let bygones be bygones.

Time and tide wait for no one.

Better safe than sorry.

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

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

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

It's best to be on the safe side.

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

Beauty is only skin deep.

It never rains but it pours.

It takes two to tango.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Worrying never did anyone any good.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

It goes without saying.

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

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

Seeing is believing.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

Tomorrow never comes.

Accidents will happen.

Many are called, but few are chosen.

No man is an island.

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

Hide in plain sight.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Beggars can't be choosers.

The longest journey starts with a single step.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

Live and let live.

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

You can't take it with you.

Possession is nine points of the law.

There is no accounting for tastes.

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

You are never too old to learn.

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

Learn to walk before you run.

Never speak ill of the dead.

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

There's safety in numbers.

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

Penny wise and pound foolish.

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

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

Another day, another dollar.

Fortune favours the brave.

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

A man is known by his friends.

All's well that ends well.

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

Marriages are made in heaven.

It's never too late to mend.

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

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

Love makes the world go round.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

Bread always falls buttered side down.

One good deed deserves another.

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

Don't mix business with pleasure.

A new broom sweeps clean.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

It's easy to be wise after the event.

Let well alone.

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

Handsome is as handsome does.

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

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

Good fences make good neighbours.

Make haste slowly.

Once a thief, always a thief.

Revenge is sweet.

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

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Blood is thicker than water.

Fair exchange is no robbery.

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

Curiosity killed the cat.

Two heads are better than one.

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

Keep your chin up.

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

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

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

Don't upset the apple-cart.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Nothing new under the sun.

All publicity is good publicity.

Time will tell.

Clothes do not make the man.

Beware the Ides of March.

Easy come, easy go.

Slow but sure.

Paddle your own canoe.

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

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

Good talk saves the food.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

Variety is the spice of life.

Never give a sucker an even break.

Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

Once bitten, twice shy.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

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

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

There's a time and a place for everything.

A leopard can't change its spots.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

Appearances can be deceptive.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

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

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

To every thing there is a season.

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

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

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

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

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

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

Give credit where credit is due.

Empty bags cannot stand upright.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

A dog is a man's best friend.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Haste makes waste.

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

Opposites attract.

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

You can have too much of a good thing.

All's fair in love and war.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

Even a worm will turn.

Money is the root of all evil.

A picture paints a thousand words.

A cat has nine lives.

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

Horses for courses.

Keep your powder dry.

Fish and guests smell after three days.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

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

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

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

The best things in life are free.

Manners maketh the man.

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

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

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

A miss is as good as a mile.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Nine tailors make a man.

When in Rome, do as Romans do.

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

Get out while the getting is good.

Children should be seen and not heard.

Fight the good fight.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

What can't be cured must be endured.

Only fools and horses work.

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

When the cat's away the mice will play.

Fight fire with fire.

You can't make bricks without straw.

A cat may look at a king.

Money talks.

While there is life, there is hope.

No man can serve two masters.

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

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

Speak as you find.

There's an exception to every rule.

Make love not war.

Like father, like son.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

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

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

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

Time flies.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

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

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

Each to their own.

Time is money.

Silence is golden.

Walls have ears.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

The bottom line is the bottom line.

Always put your best foot forward.

You are what you eat.

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

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

Strike while the iron is hot.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Bad money drives out good.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Good things come in small packages.

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

No rest for the wicked.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

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

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

Watch the doughnut, not the hole.

All the world loves a lover.

Physician, heal thyself.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

Man does not live by bread alone.

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

Attack is the best form of defence.

All things must pass.

Misery loves company.

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

First impressions are the most lasting.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Practice what you preach.

A thing begun is half done.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

Go the extra mile.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

Ignorance is bliss.

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

Truth will out.

The exception which proves the rule.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

An army marches on its stomach.

The Devil looks after his own.

Quid pro quo.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Never tell tales out of school.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Might is right.

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

There's one born every minute.

You reap what you sow.

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

Bad news travels fast.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

No news is good news.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

If the cap fits, wear it.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

East, west, home's best.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

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

Love of money is the root of all evil.

Practice makes perfect.

Less said, soon mended.

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

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

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

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

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

Jack of all trades, master of none.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

Time is a great healer.

Stupid is as stupid does.

It's better to give than to receive.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Good things come to those who wait.

Cold hands, warm heart.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

First things first.

What goes around comes around.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Don't throw good money after bad.

Moderation in all things.

It takes one to know one.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

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

Forewarned is forearmed.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Don't get mad, get even.

There's no fool like an old fool.

The more the merrier.

Youth is wasted on the young.

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

You can't judge a book by its cover.

The best defence is a good offence.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

It's all grist to the mill.

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

All that glitters is not gold.

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

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

Life's not all beer and skittles.

God helps those who help themselves.

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

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

Grief divided is made lighter.

Pearls of wisdom.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

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

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

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

There's no place like home.

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

A poor worker blames the tools.

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

Don't change horses in midstream.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

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

Shrouds have no pockets.