The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

Empty bags cannot stand upright.

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

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Even a worm will turn.

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

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

Home is where the heart is.

Patience is a virtue.

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

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

The exception which proves the rule.

The bread always falls buttered side down.

Blood is thicker than water.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

Actions speak louder than words.

No rest for the wicked.

It's all grist to the mill.

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

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Shrouds have no pockets.

The customer is always right.

Many are called, but few are chosen.

It never rains but it pours.

You are never too old to learn.

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

Cold hands, warm heart.

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

Cheats never prosper.

It's better to give than to receive.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

All's fair in love and war.

A stitch in time saves nine.

Love makes the world go round.

Always put your best foot forward.

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

A cat may look at a king.

Opposites attract.

Less said, soon mended.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Silence is golden.

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

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

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

The more the merrier.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

You can't get blood out of a stone.

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

A fish always rots from the head.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

To the victor go the spoils.

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

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

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

Money doesn't grow on trees.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

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

Truth is stranger than fiction.

A leopard can't change its spots.

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

Don't upset the apple-cart.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

Manners maketh the man.

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

Fish and guests smell after three days.

Watch the doughnut, not the hole.

There is honour among thieves.

A word to the wise is enough.

Virtue is its own reward.

Appearances can be deceptive.

There's safety in numbers.

There's an exception to every rule.

If you play with fire, you will get burnt.

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

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

East, west, home's best.

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

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

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

No man is an island.

Less is more.

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

Birds of a feather flock together.

First come, first served.

Pride comes before a fall.

The Devil is in the details.

You are what you eat.

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Don't rock the boat.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

Good things come to those who wait.

Accidents will happen.

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

Oil and water don't mix.

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

Give credit where credit is due.

Love of money is the root of all evil.

Put your best foot forward.

Keep your powder dry.

The show must go on.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

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

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

What can't be cured must be endured.

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

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

There are two sides to every question.

Bread always falls buttered side down.

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

It's best to be on the safe side.

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

You can't win them all.

No man can serve two masters.

There is no accounting for tastes.

One hand washes the other.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Half a loaf is better than none.

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

Big fish eat little fish.

For everything there is a season.

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

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

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

Get out while the getting is good.

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

Pearls of wisdom.

Tomorrow is another day.

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

Good talk saves the food.

Everyone has their price.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Enough is enough.

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Talk is cheap.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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

Slow but sure.

Speak as you find.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Christmas comes but once a year.

Every picture tells a story.

The Devil has all the best tunes.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

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

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

Honesty is the best policy.

Like father, like son.

A prophet is not recognized in his own land.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

Look before you leap.

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

Don't blow your own trumpet.

Beware the Ides of March.

A good man is hard to find.

Don't meet troubles half-way.

A thing begun is half done.

Still waters run deep.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Live and learn.

It goes without saying.

Attack is the best form of defence.

Time will tell.

A dog is a man's best friend.

A problem shared is a problem halved.

To every thing there is a season.

Little pitchers have big ears.

Waste not, want not.

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

The Devil looks after his own.

A golden key can open any door.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Good fences make good neighbours.

The age of miracles is past.

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

Never tell tales out of school.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

All good things must come to an end.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

Worrying never did anyone any good.

Seeing is believing.

Many hands make light work.

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

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

First impressions are the most lasting.

Let the buyer beware.

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

Never give a sucker an even break.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

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

Wonders will never cease.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

A miss is as good as a mile.

What goes up must come down.

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

An army marches on its stomach.

Fight fire with fire.

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Haste makes waste.

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

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

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

A watched pot never boils.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

Life begins at forty.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

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

Crime doesn't pay.

Slow and steady wins the race.

You can't take it with you.

Fair exchange is no robbery.

Variety is the spice of life.

The best things in life are free.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

You can't always get what you want.

Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

What goes around comes around.

Horses for courses.

If the cap fits, wear it.

A cat has nine lives.

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

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Don't shoot the messenger.

Money talks.

The longest journey starts with a single step.

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

Penny wise and pound foolish.

Don't throw good money after bad.

Misery loves company.

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

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

All publicity is good publicity.

In the midst of life we are in death.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

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

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

Grief divided is made lighter.

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

You win some, you lose some.

Once a thief, always a thief.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

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

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

A person is known by the company they keep.

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

A house is not a home.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

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

Strike while the iron is hot.

Any port in a storm.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

All good things come to those that wait.

Practice makes perfect.

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

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

Bad money drives out good.

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

Nine tailors make a man.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

Clothes do not make the man.

Learn to walk before you run.

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

The best-laid plans go astray.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

Paddle your own canoe.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

First things first.

Good things come in small packages.

Money isn't everything.

When in Rome, do as Romans do.

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

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

The Devil makes work for idle hands.

Man does not live by bread alone.

All the world loves a lover.

Walls have ears.

Enough is as good as a feast.

He who hesitates is lost.

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

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

Only the good die young.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Great minds think alike.

All things must pass.

History repeats itself.

Do as I say, not as I do.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

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

In for a penny, in for a pound.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

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

Hide in plain sight.

East is east, and west is west.

Go the extra mile.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

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

The truth will out.

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

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Make hay while the sun shines.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

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

Dead men tell no tales.

Don't get mad, get even.

Let well alone.

There's no place like home.

Forewarned is forearmed.

Bad news travels fast.

Time is a great healer.

Needs must when the devil drives.

You reap what you sow.

Faith will move mountains.

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

All's well that ends well.

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

Might is right.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

Forgive and forget.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Possession is nine points of the law.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Let the dead bury the dead.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

Make haste slowly.

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

Time flies.

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

One good deed deserves another.

An man's home is his castle.

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

Seek and you shall find.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

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

If you build it, they will come.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

Laughter is the best medicine.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

It takes one to know one.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

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

All that glitters is not gold.

Know which side your bread is buttered.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

It's easy to be wise after the event.

Hope springs eternal.

More haste, less speed.

There's no smoke without fire.

Out of sight, out of mind.

No news is good news.

Business before pleasure.

Charity begins at home.

The bigger, the better.

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

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Stupid is as stupid does.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

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

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

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

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

The best defence is a good offence.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

A man is known by his friends.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

The wages of sin is death.

Curiosity killed the cat.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

It takes two to tango.

If you can't be good, be careful.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

A bad penny always turns up.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

It's never too late to mend.

Each to their own.

Different strokes for different folks.

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

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

Marriages are made in heaven.

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

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

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

Easy come, easy go.

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

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

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

Children and fools tell the truth.

A new broom sweeps clean.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

God helps those who help themselves.

Third time lucky.

Persuasion is better than force.

Quid pro quo.

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

Beggars can't be choosers.

Handsome is as handsome does.

Every stick has two ends.

Physician, heal thyself.

No pain, no gain.

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

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

There's no time like the present.

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

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

Better safe than sorry.

Another day, another dollar.

Don't change horses in midstream.

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

There's no fool like an old fool.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

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.

Make love not war.

Let bygones be bygones.

Money is the root of all evil.

Don't let the cat out of the bag.

April showers bring forth May flowers.

The end justifies the means.

A picture paints a thousand words.

Love is blind.

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

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

As you sow, so you shall reap.

Tomorrow never comes.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

All roads lead to Rome.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

Time and tide wait for no one.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

While there is life, there is hope.

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

Give the Devil his due.

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

Count your blessings.

Ignorance is bliss.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

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

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