Cheats never prosper.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

When in Rome, do as Romans do.

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

You can't get blood out of a stone.

Waste not, want not.

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

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

Money doesn't grow on trees.

Bad money drives out good.

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

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

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

Birds of a feather flock together.

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

Persuasion is better than force.

As you sow, so you shall reap.

Don't change horses in midstream.

Pearls of wisdom.

A golden key can open any door.

For everything there is a season.

The exception which proves the rule.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Half a loaf is better than none.

Opposites attract.

Count your blessings.

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

The truth will out.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

Go the extra mile.

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

Easy come, easy go.

The pen is mightier than sword.

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

Might is right.

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

There's no smoke without fire.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Many hands make light work.

You can have too much of a good thing.

The Devil looks after his own.

A cat may look at a king.

Out of sight, out of mind.

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

Patience is a virtue.

Practice what you preach.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Make haste slowly.

Grief divided is made lighter.

The show must go on.

Quid pro quo.

Every dog has its day.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

The customer is always right.

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

There are two sides to every question.

Love of money is the root of all evil.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

All's well that ends well.

Keep your powder dry.

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Speak as you find.

Tomorrow is another day.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

Accidents will happen.

A house is not a home.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

A man is known by his friends.

Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.

Children and fools tell the truth.

Needs must when the devil drives.

No rest for the wicked.

Wonders will never cease.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

Fair exchange is no robbery.

Make love not war.

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

A good man is hard to find.

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

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

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Time is a great healer.

You can't make bricks without straw.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

You are what you eat.

Life is what you make it.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

Fight the good fight.

Give the Devil his due.

History repeats itself.

Know which side your bread is buttered.

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

A dog is a man's best friend.

Good fences make good neighbours.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

First things first.

Watch the doughnut, not the hole.

Don't shoot the messenger.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

Bread always falls buttered side down.

Horses for courses.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

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

Money makes the world go round.

Fortune favours the brave.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

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

Every picture tells a story.

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

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Don't throw good money after bad.

It never rains but it pours.

An man's home is his castle.

Don't let the cat out of the bag.

Money talks.

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

A thing begun is half done.

One swallow does not a summer make.

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

Christmas comes but once a year.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Faith will move mountains.

Paddle your own canoe.

Little pitchers have big ears.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

Still waters run deep.

A poor worker blames the tools.

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

There's an exception to every rule.

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

Love is blind.

God helps those who help themselves.

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

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

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

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

The age of miracles is past.

All things must pass.

Better late than never.

Seeing is believing.

Worrying never did anyone any good.

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

All roads lead to Rome.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

In the midst of life we are in death.

Even a worm will turn.

Share and share alike.

A prophet is not recognized in his own land.

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

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

Small things amuse small minds.

Keep your chin up.

There's no fool like an old fool.

A fish always rots from the head.

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

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

A problem shared is a problem halved.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

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

Life begins at forty.

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

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Oil and water don't mix.

Don't mix business with pleasure.

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

It's better to give than to receive.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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

Don't upset the apple-cart.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

Time will tell.

Virtue is its own reward.

Shrouds have no pockets.

One good deed deserves another.

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

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

All's fair in love and war.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

Haste makes waste.

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

While there is life, there is hope.

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

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

An army marches on its stomach.

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

Let the dead bury the dead.

Fish and guests smell after three days.

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

The best defence is a good offence.

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

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

Flattery will get you nowhere.

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

The more the merrier.

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

Marriages are made in heaven.

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

Get out while the getting is good.

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

What goes up must come down.

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

Home is where the heart is.

The leopard does not change his spots.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

Slow but sure.

Live and let live.

Hide in plain sight.

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

Good things come to those who wait.

Everyone has their price.

Love makes the world go round.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

The longest journey starts with a single step.

Time flies.

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Every stick has two ends.

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

Only the good die young.

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

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

To every thing there is a season.

Blood is thicker than water.

Silence is golden.

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

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

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

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

Penny wise and pound foolish.

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

Actions speak louder than words.

Any port in a storm.

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

Tomorrow never comes.

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

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

It's best to be on the safe side.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

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

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

Handsome is as handsome does.

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

Physician, heal thyself.

Let bygones be bygones.

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

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

When one door shuts, another opens.

Manners maketh the man.

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

Nine tailors make a man.

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

What goes around comes around.

Ignorance is bliss.

The bigger, the better.

A cat has nine lives.

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

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

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

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

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

Do as I say, not as I do.

Variety is the spice of life.

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

To the victor go the spoils.

Third time lucky.

The end justifies the means.

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

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

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

Barking dogs seldom bite.

Cold hands, warm heart.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

There's safety in numbers.

A stitch in time saves nine.

More haste, less speed.

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

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

Pride comes before a fall.

Enough is enough.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

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

You can't always get what you want.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

The bread always falls buttered side down.

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

Dead men tell no tales.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

If you play with fire, you will get burnt.

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

Money is the root of all evil.

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

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

The early bird gets the worm.

Nothing new under the sun.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

Fight fire with fire.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Walls have ears.

It goes without saying.

Once a thief, always a thief.

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

Blue are the hills that are far away.

Less said, soon mended.

Don't rock the boat.

There's one born every minute.

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

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

You can't take it with you.

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

It takes two to tango.

Once bitten, twice shy.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Live and learn.

Life's not all beer and skittles.

The best things in life are free.

A word to the wise is enough.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

The Devil makes work for idle hands.

First impressions are the most lasting.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

There's no place like home.

Good things come in small packages.

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

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

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

The Devil has all the best tunes.

Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.

Beware the Ides of March.

Forewarned is forearmed.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

He who hesitates is lost.

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

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

Forgive and forget.

Slow and steady wins the race.

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

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Another day, another dollar.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

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

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

If the cap fits, wear it.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

Don't meet troubles half-way.

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

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

Never give a sucker an even break.

No pain, no gain.

Each to their own.

There is honour among thieves.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

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

Never speak ill of the dead.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

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

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

Talk is cheap.

East is east, and west is west.

There is no accounting for tastes.

If you can't be good, be careful.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Less is more.

Curiosity killed the cat.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

Children should be seen and not heard.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

Empty bags cannot stand upright.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Money isn't everything.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

The best-laid plans go astray.

If you build it, they will come.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Learn to walk before you run.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Moderation in all things.

You are never too old to learn.

Make hay while the sun shines.

East, west, home's best.

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

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

Revenge is sweet.

Honesty is the best policy.

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

Like father, like son.

The apple never falls far from the tree.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Let the buyer beware.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

April showers bring forth May flowers.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

One hand washes the other.

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

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

It takes all sorts to make a world.

Different strokes for different folks.

Attack is the best form of defence.

Silence construes consent.

Love will find a way.

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

There's no time like the present.

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

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

A house is not a home.

Possession is nine points of the law.

A picture paints a thousand words.

All good things must come to an end.

All publicity is good publicity.

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

Hope springs eternal.

It takes one to know one.

A person is known by the company they keep.

All the world loves a lover.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

A new broom sweeps clean.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

A miss is as good as a mile.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

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

The Devil is in the details.

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

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Laughter is the best medicine.

You win some, you lose some.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

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

The bottom line is the bottom line.

It's easy to be wise after the event.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

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

Appearances can be deceptive.

Many are called, but few are chosen.

It's all grist to the mill.

Man does not live by bread alone.

A watched pot never boils.

Practice makes perfect.

First come, first served.

Never tell tales out of school.

Knowledge is power.

A bad penny always turns up.

Bad news travels fast.

Big fish eat little fish.

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

Great minds think alike.

Give credit where credit is due.

Clothes do not make the man.

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

The wages of sin is death.

Seek and you shall find.

Don't get mad, get even.